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September 26, 2006
Taking big photos in your garage
Ray made a nice set up for lighting and taking photos of large objects in his garage. Thanks Jerry! - Link.
Related:
Budget DIY lighting system - Link.
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Sep 26, 2006 05:41 PM
DIY Projects, Imaging |
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Shopping cart bike
I finally got around to a little housekeeping on the MAKE blog and added a bicycle category (we're adding the old posts to it now)... so, in celebration of this new section here's a shopping cart bike... Mike writes - "I found this modified bike/shopping cart combo outside my new apartment. The front is a Kroger shopping cart, the back is an old Schwinn bike. Once it showed up by the dumpster, we had to try and and see how well it worked." - Link.
If you have bicycle projects, send'em our way using the submit a link!
Related:
- Shopping cart sculptures - Link.
- Shopping cart chair - Link.
- The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America... - Link.
- Turn a shopping cart into a comfortable and stylish wheelchair. MAKE 07 - Page 42.
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Sep 26, 2006 04:40 PM
Bicycles, DIY Projects, Transportation |
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Fun with flashing lights (HOW TO - Build a morse code generator)
Arbitraryuser writes - "Not sure if you're interested, but I put this together as a social experiment to see how long it would take for someone to notice that the lamp flashing in my window was actually morse code... less than 24 hours later the cops were at my door.... aka How to build a Morse code signaler and see how long it takes before someone figures it out." - Link.
Related:
- Morse coders beating SMSers - Link.
- Make Morse Code Music - Link.
- DIY Morse code Palm keyboard interface board - Link.
- Simple Working Telegraph System - Link.
- This is not your grandfather's HAM radio... - Link.
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Sep 26, 2006 03:13 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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HOW TO - Make a digital toy infrared camera
Vox writes - "Great instructions showing how Zach Stern hacked a cheap $30 digital camera to see infrared light, giving the dreamlike results..." - how to & photos.
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Sep 26, 2006 01:44 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Imaging |
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HOW TO - Folding speaker enclosures
Rick shows you how to make your own speaker enclosures from paper/cardboard, he writes - "...the box is an 80mm cube but it could be any size you like just choose the card thickness to suite the size of the box. Although this was made from card you could just as well use polypropylene as a harder wearing material, you can often buy stationary folders made from polypropylene that you can recycle." - Link.
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Sep 26, 2006 12:57 PM
DIY Projects, Paper Crafts |
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Book camera
John writes - "I spotted this while doing my daily Flickr scan. Take a book, carve out a space inside of it, add film and you have a pinhole camera. Very covert, very James Bond, very cool." - Link.
Related:
- Make Video Podcast: Weekend Projects - Make a Pinhole ... - Link.
- Homemade matchbox pinhole camera - Link.
- HOW TO make a medium format pinhole LEGO camera - Link.
- Pinhole projects and how-tos - Link.
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Sep 26, 2006 10:23 AM
DIY Projects, Imaging |
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Work Surface for electronics projects
David writes - "In a few steps, a recycled Tower PC case cover is converted into an excellent working surface. This surface will protect your desk or counter top from solder splashes and scratches. Since the plate is made of steel, you can mount tools or use magnets to hold things in place." - Link.
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Sep 26, 2006 09:21 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Bang & Olufsen Mp3 Mac mod
Check out Scott's awesome Mac mod! - "This is my finished MP3 Music Player. It's based on a Wallstreet PowerBook and a Bang & Olufsen Beocenter 4600. This has been a long process, I had planned to get it finished for last year's Great Mac Mod Challenge, so it's a year overdue." - Link.
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Sep 26, 2006 08:07 AM
Computers, DIY Projects |
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Gary's wooden clocks (free plans)
Bf5man writes - "Here's a website with plans and dxf for clocks, he offers the "world's simplest clock" and a Macgyverish CD-Paper Clip Clock! These clock are in fact escapement mechanisms, the heart of a pendulum clock. " - Link.
More:
Brian Law's Woodenclocks - Link.
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Sep 26, 2006 05:37 AM
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MANOI Athlete humanoid robots (schematic)
Tom writes - "If you haven't seen it, we have an exclusive large format schematic of Kyosho's new MANOI humanoid robot at www.botmag.com, plus images taken in Japan -- of the AT01 and PF01 being demonstrated. This was provided by our mutual friend, Lem Fugitt of www.robots-dreams.com." - Link.
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Sep 26, 2006 04:28 AM
DIY Projects, Robotics |
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Ancient Aeolipile -steam engine, and magnets for good measure...
Trebuchet03 writes - "The first steam engine was invented by Herron of Alexandria around 150BC (actual date is unknown -- that whole Alexandrian library arson thing :/ and books disagree on dates). The history channel (or was it discovery) called this person Mechanos - I'm not sure where that name came from, but it fits :P
So basically, it is a sealed pressure vessel with steam outlets. Hot steam is pumped in (or generated within) and the steam outlets provide a torque based on their perpendicular component to the radius of rotation. You also need some sort of bearing to allow for rotation ;)
Well, pressure vessel could be a fancy name for soda can...." - Link.
Related:
Building a simple Hero's Engine from a soda can - Link.
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Sep 26, 2006 03:03 AM
DIY Projects, Science |
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HOW TO - RFID enable your door
401 writes - "A member of a forum I frequent (www.binrev.com) posted this article up today. It's a great step-by-step process on enabling an RFID reader to open your front door. " - Link.
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Sep 26, 2006 02:54 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Ionic cooling gaming system
Jared writes - "I have wanted to do this project for a few years now. While it's was a relatively quick build, the time from the photo shoot to publish has been an extremely long and rocky road. Regardless in the end we have produced the first ionic cooling system for your high end gaming system. This system produces absolutely no noise and in fact has no moving parts at all. While this is a proof of concept it proves that you can get the CFM you need to cool a system efficiently with no moving parts and no increase in power consumption." Thanks Jason! - Link.
I'm not sure exactly how/if this works, so Makers take a look and post up in the comments.
Related:
More DIY cooling solutions for your computers... - Link.
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Sep 26, 2006 01:43 AM
Computers, DIY Projects, Electronics, Gaming |
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September 25, 2006
HOW TO - Make a wind turbine
Joe posted up a bunch of slides on making your own wind turbine in the MAKE pool that are worth checking out... we also have how to build one in MAKE 05... [via] - Link.
Related:
- DIY 1000 watt wind turbine - Link.
- HOW TO - Build your own wind turbine - Link.
- Wind Powered Generator. With a motor and some piping, it's suprisingly easy to build this inexpensive, efficient windmill generator--and enjoy free energy forever. MAKE 05 - Page 90.
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Sep 25, 2006 11:17 PM
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POV (Persistence of vision) using AVR
Trimbitas writes - "This is my first serious (the first one was a one LED blinker) AVR project :) I searched the Internet for a cool looking and easy to build project with ATTiny2313 and I end up on this page, it was a really nice project to start with so I made a list and I went to the local electronics shop to buy them, all the components + board cost me about 4$." - Link.
Related:
Don't forget, we have the MiniPOV v2 Kit in the MAKE store too! - Link.
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Sep 25, 2006 10:58 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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HOW TO - Vader-ize your JBL speakers
Patrick turned his JBL speakers into Darth Vader heads... - "Everybody says how much the JBL Creature II speakers look like Darth Vader. So here's how to do it for real." Thanks Bonnie! - Link.
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Sep 25, 2006 09:30 PM
DIY Projects, Paper Crafts |
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Low tech car stopper for parking
Earlier today we had a high tech garage door locator/car stopper, and here's a low tech version from MAKE Flickr pool member Hiram_cook - "Here is my version of a low-tech garage locator device, very low tech. It consists of a piece of carpet, a 4x4 board and some roofing nails. The carpet was one of those samples you can buy at a flooring store. I seem to remember that I paid $1.00 for it. The wood and nails I had left over from a repair job I did at home. All you do is nail the board to the carpet using the roofing nails which have a very large head to help keep the rug attached. Then just lay the whole thing on the garage floor at the position that stops your car where you want it to stop. Once you fine this place I marked the floor with a big marker in case the stop gets kicked out of position when the car is not holding it down. Next time you go to park you ease into your parking space and you will feel when the tire pushes against the wood stop. Perfect stop ever time without batteries to wear out and need replacing. I thick I've had this stop in place for over 12 years and I haven't replaced a battery yet. " - Link.
Related:
HOW TO - Build your own garage locator device - Link.
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Sep 25, 2006 08:33 PM
DIY Projects, Transportation |
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Arduino, the Basic Stamp killer?
Tod has a great background and comparison of the Arduino and the Basic Stamp, he writes - "Parallax's Basic Stamp is the mainstay for hobbyists wanting to add intelligence to everyday devices. A new system called Arduino provides the benefits of the Basic Stamp at a greatly reduced cost, increased speed, and is entirely open-source." - Link.
More:
From MAKE 07 - Arduino Fever. The tale of a cute, blue microcontroller that fits nicely in the palm of your hand, and the expanding community of developers who love and support it. Page 52 & PDF preview.
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Sep 25, 2006 07:18 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Build your own Vvrtual analog synthesizer
Peter writes in with this neat looking DIY synth... - "You've seen plenty of DIY circuits for building a homemade analog synth. Here's your chance to build a fully digital emulation you can hack yourself. The result is a synth that's as full-featured as many commercial hardware models, but with a unique architecture and total programmability. You can buy the whole thing for well under $100, then program it to do whatever you want, with some significant resources already growing on the Web. Cheap, retro sounds, digital flexibility (with full MIDI support), and 100% hackable? Could be a perfect music hardware for the Maker. (See also the x0xb0x, of course, but this is a little smaller and simpler, and perhaps a better choice for getting started hacking.)" - Link.
Related:
AVRSYN Monophonic Virtual Analog Synth Kits - Link.
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Sep 25, 2006 06:46 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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PIC Prototyping board...
B0j3 posted up a nice protoboard in the MAKE Instructables group - "Since I have a lot of ideas about different usages of microcontrollers it always happens I have to build basic microcontroller setup (microcontroller with oscilator). Finaly I decided to make a small (or should I say mini) protoboard for PIC 12f675 (which I wanted to use for a small project)." - Link.
More:
Join the MAKE group on Instructables and add your projects - Link.
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Sep 25, 2006 05:19 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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