RSSArchives: October 2006
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October 5, 2006
The "Color Field" camera
Bjoern writes - "The color field camera blends live video data with flickr images that match the color of the object in the center of the viewfinder. It combines a web cam and a 2.5" Color LCD screen in a vintage 1950s snapshot camera case. Inspired by the Flickr Color Pickr and RGBy. The Color Field Cam won "Best Flickr Hack" at the Yahoo! Open Hack Day on 10/01/2006." - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 05:47 PM
DIY Projects, Imaging |
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DIY Electronic drums
Geekboxjockey shows how to make an electron drum set on the cheap... - "This is kind of a general overview, the basic concepts are fairly simple. I looked at a lot of info out there before building my own, and I just kind of planned it as I built, it just takes a little creativity. Sorry to not include any links, just google it, I couldn't find the specific pages I used, but there is a community of people out there who do this stuff.
So an electronic drum set can run you back $600-3000+, sometimes without a module, my main reason for doing this was to save money bigtime. For comparison the cost for me was around $150-200 for all parts, then the module, so a total of at most $370, which as you drummers know is even cheaper than entry level acoustic sets! The most expensive item was the electric drum module or heart of it all which I will get to later." - Link.
Related:
DIY Electronic drums - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 04:45 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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DIY Electric bicycle
Slofly has a low cost brushless electric propulsion system, also known as a DIY electric bike... [via] - Link.
Related:
- Eric Peltzer's Electric Bicycle - Link.
- Electric Bicycle - Battery updgade - Link.
- Homemade electric scooter - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 03:50 PM
Bicycles |
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Antique bike light LED mod
Alan writes - "Rob M. from Michigan bought some parts from our store and was nice enough to share the resulting project with us. His son Will has an antique bike on display, it has an old acetylene light on it that hasn't produced any light for many years. A few well placed LED sure solved that problem. Rob documented the circuit that he designed and is available in the photos below. The end result looks great!" - Link.
Related:
- Tape case bike light - Link.
- DIY solar bike light - Link.
- HOW TO - Blinking cruiser bike light - Link.
- 500 Lumen BIKE LIGHT for around 10 bucks - Link.
- Bicycle projects, mods and more! - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 02:53 PM
Bicycles, DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Halloween fun with UV
Here's a cheap way to decorate with detergent and a black light for halloween... Tetranitrate writes - "All that is needed is a blacklight and some uv paint. A cheap substitution for the paint is liquid laundry detergent; I used tide with bleach alternative, but almost any kind will do. Laundry detergent glows under UV light because phosphors are added so that when the clothes are in sunlight they appear brighter. A pretty clever/sneaky (depends on how you look at it) trick by the detergent companies. The black light I used is a 30 in. Phillips 20W bulb stuck in a plastic holder that used to hold the light for my fish tank." - Link.
Related:
Halloween on MAKE! - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 01:47 PM
DIY Projects, Halloween, Holiday projects |
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Miracles you'll see in the next fifty years
I love old science/how-to magazines and what they thought the future (now) would be like. Some are incredibly accurate predications, others... well, see for yourself... Popular Mechanics 1950 - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 12:25 PM
Modern Mechanix |
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Homemade stilts
Hey, remember those adjustable (up to 3 feet) stilt how-to we posted? They only cost a few bucks if you have some wood laying around and looked like fun, well - MAKE Flickr photo pool member Gkaufman made a pair for his daughter and reports back that they're great! - Link.
Previous:
HOW TO - Make stilts - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 11:56 AM
DIY Projects |
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Solar dress
Wow, this is a pretty intense "solar dress" from Studio 5050 - "Day-for-Night, an hommage to Paco Rabanne as well as a celebration of the beauty of electronics, is a modular, reconfigurable dress comprised of 444 white circuit boards (although the number changes as the dress can get longer or shorter). Each tile is designed in such a way as to accommodate a solar cell, a RGB LED, or a photocell, and jumper connectors (in the form of 0 Ohm resistors). A control board provides power, communicates with the tiles, and links to a computer via RF. The dress is completely modular both in terms of software and hardware.
A USB board provides virtual serial port to Windows, Macs and Linux while an on board microcontroller relays data to and from the dress via a 2.4 GHz RF link. This allows for programmability (and status monitoring) from the computer side in the form of simple commands and responses via the virtual serial port. Currently a Max program has been developed that provides a graphical user interface for programming the tiles, while a Flash and Java program are part of future developments." [via] - Link.
Related:
In CRAFT 01 we have "The Electric Tank Top" - Use silver-coated thread and a microprocessor to make programmable LED clothing. Download Sample PDF.
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Oct 5, 2006 10:07 AM
Crafts, DIY Projects, Electronics |
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HOW TO - Inkjet printing on fabric
Fungus amungus shows how to use your inkjet printer to print of fabric - "Forget about printing on some transfer paper and then ironing it onto some fabric. With some freezer paper you can print right on the fabric itself. No need to reverse the image and it's faster, cheaper, and more effective." - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 09:10 AM
Crafts, DIY Projects |
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Make Controller Kit
MAKE Flickr photo pool member DDaniels has some photos of our (now shipping) MAKE controller kit & some experimentation with it... here, the MAKE Controller Kit with a scavenged talking mickey mouse servo. It uses a pontetiometer to determine servo position, and uses PWM output to drive the servo motor. [via] - Link.
Related:
- Controller Kit (on sale now!) - Link.
- Weekend Project: Making a Drawbot (uses MAKE controller kit) - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 08:14 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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DIY Audio splitter
Here's how to build a simple audio splitter so two people can listen to your MP3 player at the same time. It all fits inside a small bottle as its enclosure too... - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 07:20 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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Add a LCD to your PC (USB)
Nnod has a follow up on our previous "Add a LCD to your PC" post, this version uses USB... - "If you're a little more adventurous you can build your own USB LCD interface with a PIC or AVR microcontroller. It's not as scary as it sounds. This is good because you can power and drive the unit all through one USB port, and it's the only option when you don't have a serial or parallel port. I did this with a PIC18F2455 and it worked out quite nicely." [via] - Link.
Related:
USB driven LCD with the PIC 18F2455 - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 05:17 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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MAKE a MAME / Arcade costume...
Ok Makers, here's an example of something you shouldn't buy, rather re-MAKE... - it's an arcade costume, but it doesn't work, you can't play games on it... So, if you're looking for ideas for a cool costume, why not MAKE an arcade costume?... [via] - Link.
A LCD panel, a small laptop and all the resources on MAKE would make this a costume contest winner for sure! Wearable Pac-Man!
Related:
Tons of MAME articles, how-tos and more - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 04:32 AM
Halloween, Holiday projects |
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DIY small electric buggies and go kart plans
Ian sells plans for many cool electric karts to make for the kids (or adults). It looks fun to drive from the videos... - Thanks Bf5man! Link.
If anyone has bought these or plans to, let us know!
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 5, 2006 04:19 AM
DIY Projects, Kits, Transportation |
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Pentium II hard drive enclosure
Remember those huge Pentium II chip enclosures? MAKE Flickr photo pool member Treasonx made a hard drive case for a 20 GB drive out of one... - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 03:17 AM
Computers, DIY Projects |
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Magnificent flying machines
Pentavista Digital Imaging has a fantastic gallery of early flying machines, some dating back to 1856... [via] - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 02:32 AM
Retro, Transportation |
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Gameboys and robots!
Here's how to build a simple robot for $34 that is expandable to a wide range of projects. From sumo to fire fighting to soccer... Thanks Jose! - Link.
Related:
- Steam powered Gameboy - Link.
- GameBoy projects... - Link.
- Tongue controlled Gameboy Advance - Link.
- Robot projects - Archives & Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 01:36 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Robotics |
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HOW TO - Use your EV-DO Pocket PC phone for internet access
For those of you who have an EV-DO phone, here's how to use its wireless connection with your PC and/or Mac, Ben writes - "In today's How-To, we'll show you how to share your HTC Apache's EV-DO internet connection with your laptop. We're going to focus on the XV6700 by Verizon, but one can re-apply some of these techniques to other devices." - Link.
Related:
- HOW TO share EVDO from a PC, Mac and more! - Link.
- Sharing EVDO with other computers at the airport... - Link.
- HOW TO - EVDO on Gentoo Linux - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 12:45 AM
Cellphones, Wireless |
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October 4, 2006
Hoverboard plans
This has been a good week so far for things that hover... Here are some hoverboard plans, for $39 - the usual caveat here, I have no idea if they're good, so if a Maker out there has built, or plans to build one let us know... - "The hoverboard uses high performance hovercraft technology to lift a 200+lb rider 1 inch above the ground. A 6 horsepower 4-stroke gasoline engine spins a multi bladed propeller to force air under the craft.
A special flexible skirt (which acts like an air bag) is used to help trap air under the craft to increase efficiency. There is a slight gap between the flexible skirt and the surface while it's hovering. When hovering, the craft is virtually friction free and only requires a small thrust to move at high speeds. The craft hovers best over smooth flat surfaces. " [via] - Link.
Related hovering:
- Hoverwing - Hovercraft / Hoverplane kit - Link.
- DIY Hovercraft with 4 PC fans @ 22V! - Link.
- Paper plate hovercraft - Link.
- Homemade hovercraft - Link.
- HOW TO - Make a hovercraft - Link.
- Garage Hack: Hovercraft - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 4, 2006 05:58 PM
DIY Projects, Kits |
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HOW TO - Make a Kid's "Draw Bot"
Finkbuilt has a great draw bot that's not only a great project for kids, but adults too! Steve writes - "As far as I'm concerned, you're never too young to start mixing art with robotics. So, next time you and your budding young tinkerers need something to do on a rainy day, you should have no trouble scraping up the parts to put together this crude, drawing robot project that we saw at the Seattle Robotics Society Robothon." Thanks Windell! - Link.
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Also, check out the MAKE draw bot using the MAKE controller kit - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 4, 2006 04:33 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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