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December 1, 2008
Reware - hack your old PDA
The problem with bleeding edge devices is that they quickly become old and irrelevant. Replaced with the latest gizmo, old smart phones and PDAs tend to find their way to a drawer or a landfill after about 2 or 3 years.
It's not that most of us want a throwaway society. It's that most of the gadgets we buy are designed to expire, with hardware that cannot be user serviced, batteries that cannot be easily replaced, and with firmware and software stacks that cannot be modified to accommodate the future. Proprietary. Closed. User subjugating. Stupid.
One half of the solution is to choose open hardware and open source whenever you have the choice. The other part of the solution is to hack your closed devices to do your bidding. Thankfully, there are a lot of people working hard to make the latter possible, and you can run Free Software on everything from Palms to iPhones.
We caught this note from Hans-Christoph Steiner on the dorkbot nyc mailng list. He's currently working on a project called Reware, which is attempting to bring a common hacker-friendly Linux distro to a variety of PDAs:
We've been working at Eyebeam since July on making it easy to hack old devices and run new software on them. We now have our first Reware HOWTO video, showing the basics of how to use a Reware image yourself, then it illustrates some of the Pd patches we've made.
Coming soon, a image for running Pd, Python, and Lua programs on PDAs, as well as a HOWTO for making Pd patches for 1-5G iPods. The key idea is to turn old PDAs, mobile phones, etc. into something like an Arduino, where you can easily upload your own code to the device.
Currently Reware supports several Palm devices, but with iPods on the radar and a number of Pocket PCs that can run Linux, there's a lot of potential here. Just think about all those 200-400MHz ARM processors just waiting for something interesting to do.
Reware Wiki - tools to recycle old devices
Reware First Release
Ångström - Linux for devices, including many Palm, Nokia, HTC, and iPaqs
Posted by Jason Striegel |
Dec 1, 2008 11:00 PM
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Synchronizing Firefly kit
Alex Weber, of Tinkerlog, who's brought us such wonderful projects as the programmable LED (featured in The Best of Instructables) and synchronizing fireflies, now offers kits for both of these projects in his new Tinkerstore. Synchronizing Firefly kit sells for 11.50 Euros (about $14.40) and simulates a firefly with a tiny microcontroller. If put together with other fireflies, they will flash randomly. After some time they will start to interact with each other and the flashes will start synchronize until all fireflies flash at once. The kit contains the Firefly PCB, ATtiny13V microcontroller, bright RGB LED (~4000mcd), phototransistor, capacitors and resistors, sockets and header. Not included are a power supply and the ping pong ball. The programmable LED kit sells for 6.50 Euros (about $8.25) and has a blinking sequence that can be programmed with a flashlight. It detects changes in the lighting, records them, and plays them back. The kit includes everything you need to build the circuit, including the 3V coin cell battery. It requires freeform soldered (no PCB).
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The Best of Instructables Volume I
Instructables.com has become one of the most popular magnets for makers and DIY enthusiasts of all stripes. Now, with more than 10,000 projects to choose from, the Instructables staff, editors of MAKE, and the Instructables community itself have put together a collection of technology, craft and food hacking how-to's from the site. The Best of Instructables Volume 1 includes plenty of clear, full-color photographs, complete step-by-step instructions, and tips, tricks, and new build techniques you won't find anywhere else. Cool electronics projects such as Alex Weber's programmable LED are included in over 120 projects.
Price: $29.99
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Dec 1, 2008 11:00 AM
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Simple AVR robot
Here is another DIY robot project. It's a lot slower than the Cockroach bot I posted earlier, but it can potentially do a lot more. I really like the drink cap wheels. They will not provide a lot of traction, but at these speeds it isn't an issue.
Now that the AVRonics board is in full swing it's time to start stretching it's legs. This is not the robot to do that but it's a start. I threw this together in about an hour (after many months of thinking) and spent about 10 minutes writing the code to control it. No, no, I'm not just that good - it's just that simple.
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Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Dec 1, 2008 03:00 AM
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Make an Arduino based tin can robot
This is a really cool robot made from an Arduino and a tin can. The best part about the project is a Father and his 3 & 6 year olds built it together. What a great way to spend the Thanksgiving weekend!
This blog post will show you how to build an autonomous robot that seeks out light based on a toy with a low power DC motor, an Arduino board, and a host of electronic components. Look at the pictures or go and check out a movie of the end product-- the robot on a flashlight "leash." I built it with my 6 and 3 year olds over Thanksgiving weekend in stages, and we had a blast doing it.
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In the Maker Shed:
Co-Robot Kit
Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Dec 1, 2008 02:00 AM
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How-to make a cockroach robot
This is a video I found while surfing around on YouTube. I think a lot of our readers would have most of the parts needed to make it. If not, you can pick them up for a few bucks. It's a cool little bot.
Spotted on YouTube How-to make a cockroach robot
In the Maker Shed:
We've had several neat projects over the years, and we're proud that Solarbotics has created a cool bundle kit to provide parts for completing them. In this great bundle you'll find what you need to build the Mousey (Make Issue #02), Trimit (Issue #06), SolarRoller (Issue #06), and Beetlebot (#12). Get this bundle and save over $20 compared to buying these kits separately.Please note: This kit includes the electronic components only, the build instructions and other parts needed for each project can be found in the corresponding Make issue (which are not included).
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Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Dec 1, 2008 01:00 AM
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The Culture Jamming gift guide at MAKE - hack, stick, throw, jam and inspire!
Ok, folks, I know not all of you approve of culture jamming shenanigans, but here are some gift ideas for that mischief maker in your life!
Peggy Kit
Create a light board with your own picture! You can make an LED sign for your window, a geeky valentine for your sweetie, one bad-ass birthday card, or freak the holy bejesus out of Boston. Your call. It's a versatile, high-brightness display. How you configure it and what you do with it is up to you. This first version can make any static design you can dream up. Version 2 adds simple animation capability and Arduino compatibility.
Price: Version 1: $79.95 Verion 2: $94.95
photo above by Flickr user smashtheqube
Read on for the complete list of awesome culture jamming gift ideas!
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Posted by Becky Stern |
Dec 1, 2008 01:00 AM
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November 30, 2008
MAKE inspired honking pumpkin
I know Halloween is over, but I really wanted to share this project that Todd emailed us. The honking pumpkin was inspired by my How-to Tuesday: Scariest Pumpkin ever build. This is exactly why we do the builds for the blog. We want our readers to be inspired to make things, and maybe like Todd, make them better. Best of all, share what you have learned so others can do the same. Thanks Todd, you made my My honking pumpkin used to scare the H-E-Hockey-Sticks out of Trick-Or-Treaters. I based this project on a Make-blog posted just before Halloween as I noted on the first page. The project turned out very scary indeed, but I had a lot of false triggering of the car horns on Halloween night. This site is about my re-build to make it better and more importantly I documented how I used my Oscilloscope to track down the cause of the false triggering and correct the problem.
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How-to Tuesday: Scariest Pumpkin Ever
In the Maker Shed:
Bare Bones Arduino Board Kit (Unassembled)
Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Nov 30, 2008 08:11 AM
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Make your own Arduino controlled bell tower / carillon
Mechatronics writes -
This is a set of musical bells which are driven by solenoids and controlled by an Arduino microcontroller.
There are 8 bells covering one octave.
The bells are controllable from a PC, or the tower can stand alone and play pre-programmed melodies.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 30, 2008 03:10 AM
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November 29, 2008
MIDI Hero - Guitar Hero with a drum kit
This Guitar Hero mod posted by Youtube user Egyokeo blew my mind. A MIDI drum kit and some custom software on a PC send button-press input via the Xbox Input Machine (XIM) hardware to an Xbox running Guitar Hero.
Since I injured my middle left finger playing Guitar Hero 2 way too much when it came out, I've been dying to get back to playing it. But my finger hasn't healed. I was holding the neck too tightly on the X-plorer guitar controller and it hurts to bend it anymore. I've never had an injury playing the drums, so I thought "wouldn't it be great to be able to play Guitar Hero on the drums?" So I thought about how that might be accomplished... researched, implemented, borrowed, and here I outline the finished product.
Here's the whole chain of what's going on:
- Me banging on my drumKat MIDI drum pads
- drumKat MIDI Out to MIDI/USB adapter to PC
- PC running my own custom MIDI Hero software
- MIDI Hero calls into XIM which sends input to the Xbox 360 console
To make the songs playable with two-sticked drum input, some of the pads simulate multiple button presses for the 3 note chords and an input buffer on the PC automatically holds all notes until just before sending another hit event. You could tweak the setup to use a MIDI keyboard or even a MIDI guitar.
There are a lot more details on Egyokeo's site as well as the blog maintained by XIM creator OBsIV. Unfortunately, there are no instructions for actually playing like this. I'm pretty sure it involves secret ninja stuff.
MIDI Hero: Play Rhythm Games using any MIDI Instrument
Building your own Xbox 360 Input Machine (XIM)
Posted by Jason Striegel |
Nov 29, 2008 09:30 PM
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November 28, 2008
Dorkbot Seattle December meeting: Santa's Evil Toys Workshop and Holiday Party!
Dorkbot-sea December meeting is coming up:
Haven't you always wanted to take all those noisy, furry, half-broken toys in your closet, tear them apart and put them together as something just a little bit evil? Well, now's your chance! Dorkbot and Santarchy are combining forces to host an evil toys workshop. If you bring electric toys that make noise, we'll show you how to circuit bend them to make eerie sounds. Don't forget your batteries! If you don't want to deal with electronics, that's ok, you can re assemble your furry toys too. WHAT: December 2008: Santa's Evil Toys Workshop and Holiday Party WHEN: Weds, December 3rd, 7:00pm - 10:00pm WHERE: 911 Media, 402 9th Ave N. ADMISSION: Free! But bring a few bucks for the eggnog and rum jar, it will be donated to 911 Media Arts Center
(photo from Hacked Gadgets)
Posted by Patti Schiendelman |
Nov 28, 2008 07:00 AM
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Jed Berk and the Blubber bots - Autonomous Light Air Vessels (ALAVs)
Jed Berk has a lot of shows going! Jed makes our Blubber bot kit in the MAKE store, if you want to make a autonomous blimp, you can!
In the pursuit to evolve and grow the biotopes, some of the species have bred forming 500 hundred new young, The Blubber Bots are offspring of the Autonomous Light Air Vessels (ALAVs). The Blubber Bots call for participation from the audience. Through educating an audience from a more hands on experience, Blubber Bots can be assembled and let loose into the world by anyone willing to do so. I am working toward a more ambitious biotope imagining hundreds of Blubber Bots inhabiting a central location. With your help, this vision maybe upon us soonWhat is a Blubber Bot?
Blubber Bots are floating DIY robotic species that navigate autonomously and intelligently. Blubber Bots float, dance, seek and sing. They are light-seeking hellium-filled balloons that graze the landscape in search of light and cellphone signals. Designed into the inflatable form is a set of light sensors enabling them to seek out the brightest light source. They are also equipped with a phone flasher and can recognize cellphone activity. You can interact with a Blubber Bot by making a call and waving your phone near it. In response, it will go into a flocking dance or sing you a special tune.
Brandts, Odense, Denmark
35 Blubbers in a solo exhibit
"Beluga Pod", Opening Reception Nov. 13, 5pm-7pm
Dates: 11.13.2008 - 11.30.2008
MOCA, Taipei
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
DEF, group exhibit (ALAVs 2.0)
Dates: 9.12.2008 - 11.09.2008
Blubber Bot Robotic Inflatable
Part of a family of "Transitional Species," Blubber Bots are Do-It-Yourself robotic inflatables that navigate autonomously and intelligently. They are light-seeking helium-filled balloons that graze the landscape in search of light and cellphone signals.
Features:
- Designed into the inflatable form is a set of light sensors enabling them to seek out the brightest light source. They are also equipped with a phone flasher and can recognize cellphone activity. You can interact with a Blubber Bot by making a call and waving your phone near it. In response, they will go into a flocking dance or sing you a special tune.
- Social and friendly in nature, Blubber Bots like to play. You can invite other Blubber Bots over for a party to watch them flock and mingle. They propel themselves using helium buoyancy and two-directional motors. They are a little clumsy though and tend to bump into things. Fortunately, Blubber Bots are born with a feeler (bump switch) to help them out of tricky situations. At a flick of the "feeler", they back up and head in a new direction.
- Not only do they like to play, but they love to sing. Blubber Bots have a unique voice generated from a vibrating motor and a small piezo speaker attached to their mylar bodies. They bellow sounds similar to a whale's song and serenade you with melodies. When not being played with, they rest while tooting periodic sounds in their sleep, dreaming until they once again are awakened.
You can also get MAKE 12 - Featuring the Blubber bot.
Make, Vol 12 features our special section on digital arts and crafts called "Upload," where you'll learn how to take infrared photographs, shoot movies with custom backgrounds, and make fun-to-watch slideshows of your digital family photos. You'll also learn how to make an extremely loud air whistle, a solar-powered xylophone, and a TV remote control that's powered by your muscles. As usual, you'll find plenty of other exciting how-to projects inside.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 28, 2008 06:00 AM
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How to: Make wooden Amplifier Knobs
This is a really easy solution for replacing a missing knob on your classic amplifier. These knobs become brittle over time and can easily break when being moved around. The replacement knobs can be made in a few minutes from some scrap materials.
Few weekends ago I was trying to find on the net some knobs to put on a[n] old JVC amplifier [me] and my girlfriend found on the street.....The small ones (2.5cm) where reasonable cheap and easy to find but I couldn't find any of 5cm.....So at last I decided to do them myself.
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Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Nov 28, 2008 02:00 AM
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HOW TO - "Homemade strobe photography"
Homemade strobe photography by Tom Anderson and Wendell Anderson...
JUMPIN’ JACKED FLASH
We built a strobe flash out of a Kodak disposable camera and then designed a circuit that triggers the flash when it detects a sound or other measurable event. The strobe flash will freeze motion!
We use a digital camera set for a long exposure (two seconds or more), and shoot the picture in a dark room. When the balloon pops, the sound-activated trigger circuit fires the flash, and the camera captures the incredible event.
Why not just take the picture of the balloon with a digital camera and its built-in flash? First, getting the timing right is a hard problem: the camera’s exposure, its flash, and the event itself need to be synchronized. (Try it yourself and see what luck you have.) The second problem is that a stock camera flash doesn’t make a very good strobe because it flashes too long, causing blurry high-speed photos.
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Nov 28, 2008 12:00 AM
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November 27, 2008
Dorkbot NYC: the 110208th dorkbot-nyc meeting
The 110208th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at Location One in SoHo.The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share.
We're always looking for (and playing) more dorkbot theme songs! Bring or email one and we'll play it at the meeting.
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Featuring the alkaline and perchlorated:
Fang-Yu Lin: Political Science 101
Political Science 101: A Crash Course in Civil Discourse on Political Blogs is a net art installation that constantly scans and monitors hundreds of political blogs for headlines, keywords and trends. The "learnings" are presented as slides that are generated in real-time, using textbook style charts and graphs. A hacked slide projector projects these virtual slides to the screen in a simulated classroom setting. Hence, the class is a study of blogs as a political medium, and an appraisal of its traits and uses.
Alicia Gibb: Bug Labs
Bug Labs is a new kind of technology company, enabling a new generation of engineers to tap their creativity and build any type of device they want, without having to solder, learn solid state electronics, or go to China. Bug Labs envisions a future where CE stands for Community Electronics, the term "mashups" applies equally to hardware as it does to Web services, and entrepreneurs can appeal to numerous markets by inventing "The Long Tail" of devices. We believe everybody is an inventor at heart, so we've developed a platform for users to create and forever modify their favorite gadget, allowing for ultimate customization and use.
Jeremy Rotsztain: Media Impressionism
Media Impressionism is just one possible term for the practice of remixing cinematic imagery using well known practices from painting (such as collage, pointillism, and action painting), but using software-based tools. In this dorkbotty presentation, I'll discuss a few of my recent video art and computational imaging projects and share my working process.
Check out last month's presentations here. Good, dorky stuff in the Big Apple!
Posted by Luke Iseman |
Nov 27, 2008 10:00 AM
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LEGO powered Bluetooth printer
This is a plotter-type printer that is powered by a LEGO NXT. The website has a bunch of pictures and some videos. There are even screen shots of the code, but that's about it. I hope there is more information posted soon.
A little More about the LEGO powered Bluetooth printer [Let's Make Robots]
Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Nov 27, 2008 03:00 AM
Electronics, Robotics, Wireless |
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Take apart: X-Ray Control Panel
This is a really interesting tear-apart of an X-Ray control panel. There are a lot of nice components that could easily be hacked into something new. What would you use those amazing rotary switches for?
One of the electricians at work gave me a bunch of circuit boards from decommissioned equipment this week. It's usually elevator stuff, so I hadn't paid much attention to it other than to note the pretty colored wires. Then I was taking it out of my trunk to put into a "process later" pile when I noticed the front. "X-Ray." 60kV tube voltage. "Fine focus." Whaaaa???
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Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Nov 27, 2008 02:00 AM
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HOW TO - Make a "TV-B-Gone Hat"
Turn off TVs by just looking at them - By Mitch Altman....
“Hey, you mind turning that thing off?” Simple enough question, but I got tired of people looking at me like I’m from Mars. When a TV is on in the room, I can’t think. I just stare at the thing and drool.
So I invented TV-B-Gone, a key chain that stealthily turns off just about any television. When the TVs turn off, people turn on, engage in conversation, read, eat, and perform all sorts of human activities. Peace happens.
I recently teamed up with prolific kit maker Limor Fried to create a $20 kit version of the original TV-B-Gone key chain. This version works up to 40 yards away, and it’s totally hackable; the entire project is open source and documented at ladyada.net/make/tvbgone. Here’s how I built one into a baseball cap that lets me look at almost any TV, touch the top, and watch with glee as it shuts off.
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Nov 27, 2008 12:00 AM
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November 26, 2008
Portland Event: Dorkbot PDX 0x02
For those of you in Oregon, here's a dork-tastic event on December 7th:
DorkbotPDX brings you Collin Oldham, Shelly Farnham and Steve Davee
Come join us for an evening of geek meets art. The fine folks at AboutUs will be hosting us for this event, which takes place December 7th at 6PM. AboutUs is located at 107 SE Washington St, Suite 520. Feel free to bring snacks and drinks to share. Please spread the word!Collin Oldham: The RT (radio trowel) and The Cellomobo
Collin spent the 2005-2006 academic year at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) where began to develop the electronic musical instruments he is presenting today.
The RT (radio trowel) uses a capacitive sensor array based on Max Mathew's radio baton to detect the position of the trowel on the playing surface. The trowel's movements control sound synthesis parameters, including filters which process live sound from a contact mic attached to the trowel.
The cellomobo is a computer music instrument that attempts to model the behavior of a bowed string. It gives haptic feedback to the bow at audio rate to simulate the stick-slip action of a bowed string. This feedback stream finds it way back into the audio stream, creating a unique hybrid of digital and analog synthesis.
Collin Oldham is a cellist who has performed around the world with such varied and luminous artists as Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Rosemary Clooney and Aretha Franklin. He's active as a session player, and has recorded with the Decemberists, Richmond Fontaine, and Elliott Smith, among many others.
Shelly Farnham: Dorkbot Dorkbot Dorkbot + Seattle
I am that rare combination of geek, artist, and scientist and when I first met Dorkbot Seattle I felt like I'd *finally* found my people -- where technology is artistic medium, science is art, and geeking out is just a whole lot of fun. My one complaint was that Seattle Dorkbots were not collaborating enough, and when I took over as Seattle's "Dork Overlord" it was my main mission -- to cultivate the creative geek community.
In this talk, I will review the best of Dorkbot Seattle's art, geekery, and science, and discuss how we have worked to increase cross-disciplinary collaboration through our meetings, workshops, and art shows.
Shelly Farnham received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology at UW in 1999, after which she worked at Microsoft Research for seven years studying community technology. A few years ago she quit to join the start up world, and is now co-founder of Pathable (professional networking for events). In her "spare" time she paints, does collaborative installations, and instigates people to have more fun creating stuff.
Steve Davee: Not to kill a thought: The impact of language on curiosity, creativity and scientific inquiry.
This talk explores how easy it is, even with the best of intentions, to stifle creative thought and true learning when it comes to working with children in the areas of science, math and engineering. We will investigate examples of simple but powerful changes in language, with the intention of provoking the best of creative potential and shared inquiry.
Steve Davee is a math and science teacher at Opal Charter School and a Media Specialist for the Center for Children's Learning at the Portland Children's Museum. He is a recovering Biochemist with a background in physics and over 20 years of volunteer and work experience in education.
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Nov 26, 2008 04:00 PM
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HexPummer Lantern kits from Solarbotics
One of the new kit releases I got a big kick out of at Maker Faire Austin was the HexPummer Lantern from our compadres at Solarbotics. This is an add-on to their popular HexPummer, a kit version of a cool BEAM circuit that creates throbbing LED light that "PUMMs" when darkness falls and the circuit slowly dumps the power from the solar cell and rechargeable batteries that have been soaking up and storing the day's sun. Put this inside of a handsome little laser-cut Japanese lantern with geeky silhouettes (or seasonal ones) and you have the HexPummer Lantern. This is a great entry-level kit, something that the builder will have fun showing off when s/he's done making it.
Solarbotics even made special MAKE and Maker Faire Austin Lantern kits. These kits, and the HexPummers, are available in the Maker Shed.
HexPummer Kit (Pummer only)
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Lantern Kit (Lantern only)
Our Price: $7.50
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Nov 26, 2008 11:46 AM
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VGA to USB power mod
This Instructable details a simple little hack to get USB power out of a VGA port, to power external disc drives, DVD players, and the like. All you need is a male to male VGA gender changer and a female plug from any old USB extension cable.
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Instructables.com has become one of the most popular magnets for makers and DIY enthusiasts of all stripes. Now, with more than 10,000 projects to choose from, the Instructables staff, editors of MAKE: Magazine, and the Instructables community itself have put together a collection of home, craft, food and technology how-to's from the site. The Best of Instructables Volume 1 includes plenty of clear, full-color photographs, complete step-by-step instructions, and tips, tricks, and new build techniques you won't find anywhere else.
Highlights from the book:
* 336 pages, 6-5/8 x 9-3/8, same dimensions as The Best of MAKE and MAKE magazine.
* Over 120 projects!
* Projects cover everything from food hacking and making home furnishings from junk to building robots and CNC milling machines. And in-between you'll find projects on arts, crafts, costume-making, tool tips, themed photo galleries, and tons more.
* There are also the results of the Community Choice contest winners (the best of Instructables as voted by its members) and links to their projects.
* There are key user comments from the site throughout, called User Notes, and even a section in the back for you to keep your own User Notes as you build the projects.
We tried to involve the Instructables community as much as possible in the creation of the book (we were in direct communication with several hundred authors!). We hope the results do this maker community proud. It was a thrill ride to be sure.
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Nov 26, 2008 11:05 AM
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