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July 17, 2006
HOW TO - Draw ellipses
Here's an easy way to draw ellipses using string, a couple push pins and a pencil - Link.
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Jul 17, 2006 06:57 PM
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HOW TO - Make an Eyetap
Nym writes "Turn an old pair of glasses and a $14 philips digital camera into an eyetap to take pictures from your perspective." - Link.
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Jul 17, 2006 05:49 PM
DIY Projects, Imaging, Wearables |
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Following Robot In a Can
Check out this homemade line following robot! This is a shot of the insides of my robot. I initially used a solder less breadboard to make sure my circuit worked. I used an M &Ms tube to hold the motors in place. - Via - Link
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Jul 17, 2006 05:02 PM
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Helmet Cam (hands free video production)
DIY helmet cam - "The helmet-cam is useful anytime you want video but you don't want to use a hand or second video-person on the project. We use ours to record the designing and building of HowToons projects. It can be an invaluable anlysis and learning tool for rapid prototyping." - Link.
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Jul 17, 2006 04:14 PM
Imaging, Wearables |
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Bottlecap magnets and thumbtacks
Crafty use of old bottle caps - make magnets and thumbtacks - [via] - Link.
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Jul 17, 2006 02:44 PM
Crafts, DIY Projects |
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Conduit bike trailer
Prank writes "Build a nice bike trailer out of a piece of electrical conduit and some old bike bits" - Link.
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Jul 17, 2006 02:12 PM
DIY Projects, Transportation |
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Hard Drive Wind Chimes
I used to disassemble hard drives, whenever possible, both to extract the magnets and to see how the different types worked. Different hard drives contain all kinds of wonderful components: voice coil motors, stepper motors, exotic bearings, electropolished machined parts, chemically etched metal webs, flexible circuitry, and my personal favorite: optical quadrature encoders for pivot arm position readout. The drive platters themselves are also quite remarkable: precisely made aluminum patters with a surface not unlike recording tape. The disks make a lovely clear note if you strike them, so it was only natural to make them into a set of wind chimes. -Link
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Jul 17, 2006 01:45 PM
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More Tape Making
The Tape Making Madness Continues...
I needed a carrying wrap to keep tools from bouncing around in my scooter. All I wanted was a sheet with pockets/loops to hold tools. I started with only three, but there is space for more. -Link
In need of a larger bag for my camera equips, i embarked on a journey to, walmart, purchased 50yrds of heavy duty duct tape. the project took maybe an hour and a half... using 3 peices of cardboard for support and a tshirt for semi cussiony goodness, it is now complete... as well as maybe 5 feet of spare tape. -Link
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Jul 17, 2006 11:35 AM
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Kids making softies
Lizette Greco makes crafty goods based on the drawings of her children. Now it looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree as her kids have started to make their own cuddly creatures themselves. Posted up on the CRAFT flickr pool are these photos. Pictured left is her son's pterodactyl and at right is an owl softie made by her daughter. Link.
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Jul 17, 2006 10:26 AM
Crafts |
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Web based sun dial
A digital sun dial - "The sun.dial is an internet-based installation project that fosters a sense of shared global space and time. The principle system consists of twelve LCD displays suspended from an overhead apparatus in an outward-facing ring. This circular display is the hub of a world-wide input system. Each screen displays the information from one of twelve webcams located at intervals around the world. Each camera faces upward, capturing only the sky in each location. This creates a light gradient ring that displays the current state of the sky's light at points around the globe. When it is dawn in one screen, it is noon a few steps over, and nightfall a few steps down from that. A connection is created between the hosting site, where sun.dial is located, and the locations capturing the light of the sun. The piece is in a way a digital incarnation of the astrolabes and orreries that were the beginnings of technology's global perspective. " [via] - Link.
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Jul 17, 2006 06:11 AM
Arts |
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QSL gallery
Great collection of station verification reports, better known as "QSL"s [via] - Link.
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Jul 17, 2006 05:03 AM
Retro, Wireless |
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HOW TO - 16 foot pan-and-tilt camera crane for $60
Matthijs writes - "For about $60, you can build a camera crane for a lightweight videocamera. The nifty thing about this design is that you can not only move crane up and down and rotate it, but you can also pan and tilt the camera. Plus, it's pretty lightweight and can be easily disassembled and transported." - Link.
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Jul 17, 2006 04:43 AM
DIY Projects, Imaging |
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DIY Air conditioners
It's going to be a hot day, here's another DIY AC - Link.
More:
Homemade air conditioners - Link.
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Jul 17, 2006 03:42 AM
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July 16, 2006
Battery-powered plane
This plane is powered by 160 "Oxyride" AA batteries, I didn't realize this was a first but its seems to be - "The world's first one-seater dry-battery powered aircraft soars in the air, while students of the Tokyo Institute of Technology follow it, at the Honda Aiport in Okegawa city, Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo." [via] - Link.
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Jul 16, 2006 03:34 PM
News from the Future, Transportation |
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DIY lamp from an old washing machine barrel
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Riddim posted up a DIY lamp from an old washing machine barrel - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 16, 2006 01:55 PM
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Use car power to grind meat
Use your car to grind meats, Modern Mechanix 1932 - Link.
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Jul 16, 2006 12:50 PM
Modern Mechanix, Retro, Transportation |
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HOW TO - Make a very simple proximity detector
Offlogic writes - "Gadget freaks, model railroaders, roboticists or cat-hosts will love the versatility of the Sharp IS471 infrared proximity detector. It is the size of a transistor, operates over the 4-16 volt range, and can detect objects about 4-9 inches away by reflected IR pulses. The basic implementation requires only the IS471, an IR LED and a 9 volt battery and can be built by most any tinkerer in less than 10 minutes." - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 16, 2006 11:24 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Instructables |
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Mag-Lite bike lamp
Werkzeuger writes - "Modify a AA mini-maglite to be a long-lasting, low-key CHEAP bike light. Features LEDs for long battery life and handlebar-mounted remote controls. You can even continue using the flashlight off the bike. Perfect for urban nocturnal stealth rides." - Link.
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Jul 16, 2006 10:23 AM
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Camera built from thread spool
Here another one for this retro Sunday, it looks like a tiny pinhole camera inside a spool of thread (Popular Science 1940) - Link. We have tons of how-to guides on making pinhole cameras, so you could likely (re)make this.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 16, 2006 09:25 AM
Modern Mechanix |
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Pong hat
Lushprojects has a pong playing hat (also displays text, and plays space invaders) - "For the display I used 5x7 LED modules from HP. They were cheap on eBay! The project drives two 21x10 dot displays each made from 6 LED modules. Control is provided by an AVR ATMEGA32L microcontroller. First job was to prototype the hardware on breadboard and do some very simple software..." [via] - Link.
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Jul 16, 2006 08:55 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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