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January 15, 2008
Weekend projects...
Here's a note from Dan Woods our Associate publisher about Weekend projects & Bre -
We learned in the past few days that our good friend and colleague Bre Pettis has decided to pursue independent projects and will be leaving his role on Makezine.com as host of Make Weekend Projects. We've enjoyed having Bre on the Make team for the past year and a half, and we're deeply appreciative of the passion, creativity and energy he brought to Make: Weekend Projects. We wish him nothing but the best with his new ventures and future projects, and we're pretty sure we'll be seeing him in the months to come as he continues to entertain the DIY community.At the same time, changes like this always bring opportunity to look at projects and programming anew. And in fact, we're already conspiring to re-launch a totally new approach to Make Weekend Projects in the very near future. We're excited to let you all know what's up our sleeve, and just as soon as we finalize the details we'll announce it on makezine.com, craftzine.com, our newsletters, and of course MAKE and CRAFT Magazines. Back to you in a week or two.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2008 12:00 PM
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Apple gear you'll see taken apart in 2 weeks or less
Apple announced some new gear today, the teardowns and dissections will appear here in a couple weeks or less! Apple Macbook air - Link.
Apple Time Capsule. Wireless base station and back up drive, just asking to be hacked... Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2008 11:09 AM
Computers |
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Superconducting Maglev train models
Great video on IFW-Dresden's superconducting magnetic levitation (Maglev) train models - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2008 11:00 AM
News from the Future, Science |
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‘Flat Pack’ furniture
Here's a nice collection of ‘Flat Pack’ furniture, stores and ships flat but can be assembled to be just a 3D as the rest of your stuff... Link.
Related:
Make a flat pack toy - Link.
DIY Minicomic stand - Link.
HOW TO - Make a pack flat plywood desk - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2008 10:00 AM
Arts |
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HOW TO - Make a mousetrap race car & mouse trap round up
Labot2001 writes -
Oh, what better a way to start off the new semester than by building a racecar? Why, building a racecar using a mousetrap, of course! In this Instructable, I will not only show you how to build a mousetrap car, but also some tips and tricks that I learned in my own building process. Back off, PETA. No animals (or pet rocks ;]) were harmed in the making of this Instructable.HOW TO - Make a mousetrap race car - Link.
Related:
Maker Faire: The Life-Sized Mousetrap - Link.
Non-lethal mousetraps show your fondness for rodents - Link.
HOW TO - Catch a mouse without a mousetrap - Link.
Crystal radio mousetrap - Link.
A better mousetrap! - Link.
How-To make Mouse-Trap cars - Link.
PIC controlled, stepper motor driven mouse trap - Link.
Simple, humane mousetrap - Link.
Bucket mousetrap - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2008 09:00 AM
DIY Projects, Instructables |
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Design Police, Bring bad design to justice - with DIY stickers
Ever see a bad design? A crummy ad? Bad logo, font kerning messed up? Here's you're chance to help! The Design police DIY stickers are a kit you can download and make the world a better (designed) place - [via] Link & more.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2008 08:00 AM
Arts, Culture jamming |
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DIY laptop stand from an Ikea paper towel holder
Lazymonster writes -
This was made from some plexi and an Ikea paper towel holder that I had laying around. I drilled some holes in the stainless steel crosspiece (don't try this without a drill press and graduated high speed bits). I counterbored 4 screws into the plexi and bolted it together. It works and looks good. There is some bounce due to the springiness of the thin steel. This setup allows me to use a keyboard, tablet and maintain proper ergonomics. I also strap a miniature bungee cord just below the keyboard, mostly for peace of mind.DIY laptop stand from an Ikea paper towel holder - [via] Link.
Related:
PVC laptop stand - Link.
DIY angle bracket laptop stand - Link.
Simple Laptop Stand - Link.
Letter holder laptop stand - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2008 07:00 AM
Computers, DIY Projects |
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Alarm clock bedpost lamp
Insipired by Wallace & Gromit, Max D made this "PlumbingPunk" style ABS pipe alarm clock mod to attach to his bedpost. I love how the display looks like a centipede crawling away. - Link.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Jan 15, 2008 06:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Solar Ark makes its solar calculator cousins run away in fear
The "Solar Ark" by Sanyo is a 630 kW solar energy-collecting building built using over 5,000 solar panel rejects that were rescued from the scrap pile. Located in Gifu, Japan, the Solar Ark generates over 500,000 kWh of energy per year and it features more than 75,000 red, green and blue computer-controlled LEDs lit up between the PV panels of The Solar Ark's 315 meter (1033 foot) long façade. Very cool example of renewable energy practice mixed with recycling and repurposing.
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Jan 15, 2008 06:00 AM
Green |
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Arducopter: Arduino helicopter control
Jason @ Hackzine write -
A recent Arduino -vs- Basic Stamp discussion over on the DIY Drones site really caught my eye. Jordi makes a nice argument for the Arduino, showing off the current state of his Arducopter, which you can see in the video above. Built using a low cost electric heli, an Arduino board, and the guts from a Wii Nunchuck, his system can currently auto stabilize roll and pitch. More detail and source code are posted at the link below. It's a really great start.I've also been working on an autonomous helicopter project. While I've been able to build a general game-plan and test a few things with my BS2 controller, I know it's going to be insufficient for the device's needs.
I can say this with a bit of certainty, because I've built a GPS-guided RC car in the past using the BS2. Even with heavy optimization, I used just about all the available memory on the Basic Stamp. There's not much room to read additional accelerometer data and manage the control outputs of even a little 4 channel heli. Long story short, I've got a Boarduino in the mail.
Can a Basic Stamp manage reading and processing accelerometer, compass, and GPS data at the same time? If so, I'd love to hear it, but I'm thinking it'd be difficult to impossible. Don't get me wrong—I love my BS2. It's great for prototyping and quickly building smaller projects. Objectively, though, the Arduino is a little faster, has more ram, and costs much less.
More:
Arducopter - Link
DIY Drones discussion on Arduino versus Basic Stamp for UAVs - Link
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2008 05:00 AM
Arduino, DIY Projects, Electronics, Open source hardware |
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Jean octopus
This giant octopus chair is made from a bunch of pairs of jeans, awesome remake potential! - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2008 04:00 AM
Arts, Remake |
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CCD ring - Jewelronics
We're rapidly approaching a time where some of the best electronics will ultimately make the best jewelry. Here's a CCD from a Canon camera mounted in a ring. De Beers will be opening a booth in Best Buy any day now, you heard it here first - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2008 03:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, News from the Future |
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Blood pen
Bob Partington's "Blood pen" - the pen is part of a series @ the Bread and Butter, Untitled Exhibition in Barcelona Spain, January 16th - 18th - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2008 02:00 AM
Arts |
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Whittling is easy
bf5man writes -
Remember the Gever Tulley Ted conference talk about dangerous things you should let your kids do? Well, letting them have a pocket knife was one of the things. Here's some projects I've scanned from a vintage book to get them some cool projects to whittle!Whittling is easy - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2008 01:00 AM
DIY Projects, Retro |
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Micropolis: Sim City open sourced
Jason @ Hackszine writes -
Don Hopkins has released a GPLed version of the original Sim City, cleaned up and renamed to the original title, Micropolis:
The "MicropolisCore" project includes the latest Micropolis (SimCity) source code, cleaned up and recast into C++ classes, integrated into Python, using the wonderful SWIG interface generator tool. It also includes a Cairo based TileEngine, and a cellular automata machine CellEngine, which are independent but can be plugged together, so the tile engine can display cellular automata cells as well as SimCity tiles, or any other application's tiles.The key thing here is to peek inside the mind of the original Maxis programmers when they built it. Remember, this was back in the day when games had to fit inside of 640k so some "creative" programming techniques were employed. SimCity has been long a model used for urban planning and while it's just a game, there are a lot of business rules, ecosystem modeling, social dependencies, and other cool stuff going on in this codebase. It may not be pretty code but it's content sure is interesting to see.
The source will compile for X86/Linux systems, and we;re betting we'll see ports to other platforms at some point. If you're on a Mac and just want to play the game, just run a copy of Ubuntu in an emulator like QEMU and install the binary there.
More:
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2008 12:00 AM
Computers |
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January 14, 2008
Hide-in-plain-sight cat litter box
If only you could hide the smells this effectively.
"Hide-in-plain-sight" Cat Litter box - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jan 14, 2008 08:00 PM
DIY Projects, Instructables |
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BeatBearing sequencer
Peter Bennett, a PhD student at the Sonic Arts Research Center in Belfast, made this sequencer that you program with ball bearings. It has four tracks: kick, snare, hi-hat, and cowbell. - [via] Link.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Jan 14, 2008 06:00 PM
Arts, Music |
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OS X in a Mac 512 for 24th Anniverary
You knew somebody was going to do it.
This is a Macintosh 512k which I upgraded to run OS X by replacing the innards with a modern Mac Mini and various supporting components, including a grayscale CRT monitor, an LS-120 floppy disk drive, and a microcontroller-based USB device that interfaces the Mini to the original keyboard and mouse. Why? Mainly because I wanted to experiment with creating a custom USB device. Also I guess I wanted to waste hundreds of dollars and countless hours building a semi-useless computer with a 9 inch black and white screen and no arrow keys.
24th Anniversary Macintosh - [via] Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jan 14, 2008 06:00 PM
Computers, Retro |
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BlinkM
thingm is just about to release BlinkM! -
Have you wanted an LED that can fade from deep red to bright purple? Flash like a police light? Turn on with the subtle fade of an incandescent bulb? Flicker like a candle? That's BlinkM.thingm :: an electronic product studio: BlinkM - Link.We've attached an ultra bright wide-angle RGB LED to a microcontroller. Using BlinkM Sequencer, our software that fuses a color picker with a drum machine, you program BlinkM to be any color, and blink and fade in virtually any pattern.
When you've programmed your BlinkM, you unplug it and pop it into your project. Apply 5 volts, and it does its thing, whether that's glowing your favorite pinkish purple, or pulse like an old neon light. All for under $15.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 14, 2008 05:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Rock Band drum dampening tutorial
Thomas made this simple tutorial on how to dampen the loud sounds of your Rock Band drum pad controller using some self-adhesive foam and felt. I think the color coding would help me play the game better, too! Thomas shows a video with altered and unaltered pads so you can hear the difference. (Thanks, Matt!) - Link.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Jan 14, 2008 04:00 PM
Crafts, DIY Projects, Gaming |
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