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February 1, 2008
Make An Xbox360 Arcade Joystick
Here is a step-by-step tutorial for converting a Street Fighter arcade-style joystick controller to work with your Xbox360. Although they started with a Street Fighter joystick, which you most likely don't have, the pictures of the Xbox controller ripped apart are all labeled. This should definitely help you get a jump start on your own creation. - Link
Related:
Homemade Xbox 360 arcade controller - Link
Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Feb 1, 2008 03:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Toys and Games |
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Making a Carbon Fiber Bike frame
Brano Meres created his own carbon fiber bike frame after being inspired by one made by Damon Rinard. He has some very interesting pictures of the whole process on his site. I particularly like the frame jig he created out of wood to hold the foam base material.
Everything began after I read the article "How I Made a Carbon Fiber Bike in My Garage" by Damon Rinard. Thanks to this excellent article, I decided to make a MTB frame, even though I've never dealt with carbon composites before (except carbon brakeboosters I made for my bike long ago). I always wanted to own this kind of frame.
Make your own Carbon Fiber Bike - Link
Related:
Making a Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composite Bike - Link
From the pages of MAKE
MAKE 09 - page 168 -Link
Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Feb 1, 2008 02:00 AM
Bicycles, DIY Projects |
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DIY Jib Arm, Boom or Crane
Joren wrote a nice how-to on his experience building a jib arm. I am not sure of the technical name for this device, and neither is Joren, but I do know it looks like a good tool to have for any filmmaker.
I don't know if the proper name is jib arm, boom, or crane. Like everything else in the world, there are at least three names for this. The basis for this design is a four-link system so no matter what the angle of the actual arm is at, the camera "basket," as I call it, is always parallel with the ground. However, I designed a way to tilt the camera up and down, so you can get bird's eye shots that change to be low angle shots, etc. Basically, I tried to anticipate any need I might have of a jib arm and make it as versatile as possible.
Make your own Jib Arm - Link
Related:
$60 jib "The Poor Man's Jib" - Link
Make an improved steadicam for under $40 - Link
Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Feb 1, 2008 01:00 AM
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"Peggy," - A Light emitting pegboard display
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have released "Peggy" this is a great open source hardware project for LED art makers! -
With all the cool things that you can do with LEDs today, there is still one thing that's lacking: simplicity. If you want to run a bunch of LEDs at a time, you usually end up spending a fair bit of time worrying about series and parallel combinations, matching brightness, and picking load resistors. Or, if you're a beginner, maybe you only get one third of the way through the previous sentence-- wondering if you're already in over your head.Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - "Peggy," - A Light emitting pegboard display Link.Suppose that you want to make a big LED display for your window or wall: maybe it's your logo, a symbol, your favorite 8-bit character, or maybe even a sign that spells out words like "OPEN" or "ON AIR." How do you go about it? The usual DIY solution involves drilling holes in a panel to fit your LEDs, then spending a heck of a lot of time wiring everything up-- ending up with one resistor per LED (and a three-dimensional mess if you happen to look at the back side of the panel). And, if you do everything in the most obvious ways, it can even end up consuming a surprising amount of power.
While I have certainly spent my share of time constructing things with the aforementioned technique, at some point it becomes clear that there has to be a better way. In this day and age, shouldn't LEDs be about as difficult to play with as, say, a Lite Bright? Today we are releasing a new open-source hardware and software design that takes some of the sting, complexity, and mess out of playing with LEDs. It's a versatile and powerful light-emitting pegboard that lets you efficiently drive hundreds of LEDs in whatever configuration you like, without so much as calculating a single load resistor.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Feb 1, 2008 12:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Open source hardware |
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January 31, 2008
Fuzzy logic guitar effects pedal
Here's a unique circuit for guitar effects builders. It uses readily available SIP sockets to allow easy transistor swapping. Experiment with different values for a personalized sound - and change it up on a whim. You can also recreate a bunch of popular pre-existing fuzz distortions with it:
Some of the fuzzes you can make after building this layout are the Basic Fuzz Face (with R.G. Keen Mods, Roger Mayer Mods, Fuller Mods), the Vox Tone Bender 5/67, runoffgroove.com's Sili-Faces, fuzzcentral.com's Axis Face Germanium and Silicon, Joe Gagan's Easy Face, Aron Nelson's Hornet, the Gus Fuzz Face, Tim Escobedo's Many Faces, the Boutique Fuzz, and the Miss Piggy.
Guassmarkov's site has some great tutorials on using op-amps and other basic electronic parts. There's a boat-load of schematics, PCB images, and Eagle CAD files on there as well.
Fuzzy logic effects pedal -Link
Related:
Walkman guitar distortion pedal -Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Jan 31, 2008 03:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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Sports car from canoes
Is your canoe too slow? Just add - one car, duct tape, ladder, ironing board, and copious amounts of dry land - Enjoy!
(WARNING: Do not sit in upside-down canoe)
Sports car from canoes - Link
In the Maker Store:
Art Cars book @ The Maker Store - Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Jan 31, 2008 02:00 PM
DIY Projects, Transportation |
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1-31-07 Memorial throwie
From The MAKE Flickr Pool:
Kthxema wore this LED throwie/pendant today in support of technological awareness. - Link
Related:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force shuts down Boston - Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Jan 31, 2008 01:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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HTML as sound
Ever wondered how HTML and image data would sound as beat samples?
Bill writes:
I've written a Firefox addon that makes it possible for a monome or arduino to interact with your browser. The url below is a video of me "playing" the raw data in the NYTimes homepage using a monome 40h. The project is called Lily and its a Max/PD style patching language that hooks into the browser and allows you to build multi-media projects (including physical controllers) on top of Firefox.
Each link highlighted actually makes for a nice percussive sound. This makes sense given that many percussive voices are synthesized using noise generators - and web data sounds similarly random to our ears. Awesome project, thanks Bill!
Lily project - Link
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Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Jan 31, 2008 12:00 PM
Arduino, DIY Projects, Music, Open source hardware |
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Never forget 1-31-07 memorial kit - assembled (build photos)
I just finished making the excellent "Never forget 1-31-07 memorial kit" from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - they did a great job on this unique and fun LED art panel. Complete photo set of the kit here - Link & more details on the kit.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 31, 2008 11:30 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Pocket Electronics - MIDI controllers, including the MIDI gun!
Check out the great gallery of projects that used this MIDI controller kit -
Pocket Electronic (abbreviation: "PE" in the following) is an universal electronics DIY kit to built your own MIDI control box. Up to 16 controlling elements can be connected to PE transmitting 16 different MIDI messages on different (or even the same) MIDI channels.Pocket Electronics- Link.Essentially it contains the electronics core of Pocket Control resp. Pocket Fader but without the 16 controls (i.e. without rotary potentiometers resp. faders).
Instead of this PE is used to connect up to 16 controlling elements (e.g. rotary potentiometers, fader/slider potentiometer, touch switches, toggle switches, foot switches, foot controllers). The controlling elements are not included but have to be added by the customer. The MIDI data range is 0...127 with 7 bit resolution.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 31, 2008 10:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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HOW TO - Remove shake and motion blur from photos
Jason @ HACKSZINE writes -
It's a real drag when you think you've taken a great picture, only to load it up in photoshop and discover that your hands weren't as steady as you thought they were. Depending on the magnitude of your error, chances are you can correct most small camera bumps or pans using a deconvolution filter. The particular technique used depends on which package you use, but they are all built around manipulating the image in the frequency domain to reduce the photo's linear blurring.HOW TO - Remove shake and motion blur from photos - Link.Nathan Willis dissected three applications for removing the effects of camera movement from your photos. Two of them, Refocus and Iterative Refocus, are open source Gimp plugins. The third, Unshake, is a closed source Java application that is capable of producing high-quality results with little user effort (though your CPU will be hurting for a minute or two).
The above photo is from the Unshake site. It seems to work well for predominately straight-line blurs over the range of 8 pixels or less. I haven't tried the two Gimp plugins, but I have a feeling the Iterative Refocus package could produce the best results given enough tweaking of the setting.
It's all Fast Fourier Transforms and way over my head, but it works (and frankly, if it was good enough for the Hubble, it's good enough for me).
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Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 31, 2008 04:00 AM
DIY Projects, Imaging |
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Parallel port logic analyzer
Adrian posted a step-by-step tutorial on how to build an inexpensive logic analyzer for your PC. He even has the schematics and software to download. Having an oscilloscope or simple logic analyzer can save you a lot of time when troubleshooting your electronics project.
A logic analyzer is a like a recorder for digital signals. During a certain (small) period of time, the state of a few digital lines can be recorded to a file. An event can be specified to signal the start of the recording, i.e. line 1 toggling from 0 to 1.
This looks like a really easy way to view some logic signals, but I would be a little concerned that the test probes are not isolated. You've been warned! - Link [Via]
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Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Jan 31, 2008 01:00 AM
Arduino, DIY Projects, Electronics |
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MovieBeam hardware and software hacking...
Here's a wiki dedicated to opening up the MovieBeam player, a Linux-based set-top-box recently obsoleted by the demise of the MovieBeam service -
The MovieBeam service was a unique system for delivery of movie rentals to the home. It was based on a set-top-box using a special over-the-air data receiver, a hard drive and secure playback software. The terrestrial broadcast data transmissions would continually "beam" new movies and promotional material to the box where they would be stored for subsequent playback. The system would keep somewhere between 80-100 titles on the hard drive available for instant rental. While some of the hardware is quite specialized, the underlying system runs a variant of the Linux operating system and theoretically the box can be used for other purposes than its original design.MovieBeam wiki, thanks Dexter! Link.Purchased by Movie Gallery in early 2007, operations for the MovieBeam service ceased on or about December 15, 2007 and their website went down shortly after that. Inquiries with what was left of customer support regarding what to do with the player were met with "you can do as you please with the player." This wiki is intended as a repository for information regarding hacks and exploits on the MovieBeam player in the hopes that a few of them can be saved from a landfill.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 31, 2008 12:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Home Entertainment |
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January 30, 2008
Bike part coffee table
Here's an elegant table made from bike parts by MAKE Flickr pool member Delcruiser. It features a chain ring shelf handy for stowing magazines/books or maybe a kryptonite chain or two.
Bike part coffee table on Flickr - Link
Also - Check out these graceful seatings by Frida Ottemo Kallstrom - constructed from recycled bicycle parts:
Recycled Bicycle Furniture on Inhabitat - Link
Recycled Gears on Inhabitat - Link
Related:
Furniture made from bikes - Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Jan 30, 2008 03:00 PM
Arts, Bicycles, DIY Projects, Green |
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Pocket amp circuit
This serene little pocket amp circuit was submitted by MAKE Flickr pool member Abie Ringman.
The Mint-Tin/CMoy headphone amplifier costs around $20 to make and therefore is a very attractive alternative to similar commercial amps which can run upwards of $100. Get more info on this popular project in MAKE Volume 4.
Pocket amp circuit on Flickr - Link
From the pages of MAKE:
Mint-Tin Amp MAKE 04 - page 141. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition or get MAKE 04 @ the Maker store.
Related:
RC4560-based headphone amplifier - Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Jan 30, 2008 02:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Portable Audio and Video |
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Seeing red mushrooms
From the MAKE Flickr pool:
Member Schroeder71 uses a tip from MAKE Volume 12 to punch up this image of fungi and achieve a crisp contrasting definition.
Accentuating color channels is an excellent pretreatment when you want that Ansel Adams look from grayscale conversions. Check out the MAKE 12 pdf for all the details.
Red Mushrooms on Flickr - Link
From the pages of MAKE:
MAKE Vol. 12: Seeing Red - Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Jan 30, 2008 01:00 PM
DIY Projects, Imaging |
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Pabst of Yore - beer can peg board tool holder
Cycle Jerk writes in -
I was working in the basement this weekend and decided it would be a good idea to go spelunking in the crawl space. What I found there was a treasure every cyclist and cheap beer aficionado would be proud of. Whoever built my house in 1937 was drinking on the job, god bless em' and dropped a few empty cans of PBR into the foundation before slapping the house on top. These cans sat still for 71 freakin years, waiting for someone with the lack of common sense to shimmy their way into the darkness and yank them into the 21st century. There they could achieve the greatness those cans were destined for... a handy tool holder on my peg board! With a can opener, a dremel tool, and a wee bit o' moxie I brought a little more honor to my beloved workspace.Cycle Jerk: Pabst of Yore - beer can peg board holder - Link.
Related:
Pegboard workbench organizer - Link.
Make - Volume 05 - The Quick and Dirty (Page 110) - Link.
MAKE Volume 05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors. Homemade electric vehicles, high-powered water rockets, electricity-generating windmill, jet engine in a jam jar, and a backyard zip line! Link & Get it at the Maker Store.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 30, 2008 10:00 AM
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DIY Electric stick bass
Mark writes -
Here's an electric bass created using 1 broken bass string, 1 piezo transducer, part of a cheap wooden easel leg, and 2 metal rods from a bookshelf.DIY Electric stick bass - Link.
Related:
SensorBib upright bass augmentation - Link.
Weird bass guitars - Link.
HOW TO- Make a Guitar/Bass Pickup - Link.
DIY Cardboard box upright bass - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 30, 2008 09:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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The muio interface
Interesting project, any maker use it?-
The muio interface is a modular system for sensing and controlling the Real World, from programmes such as Pure Data, MAX/MSP, SuperCollider, Processing or something you have written yourself.There are several interface controllers around now - some others are even OpenSource. They all have their pros and cons. However.
- The muio needs NO PROGRAMMING.
- The muio needs only 2 readily available chips to get started.
The muio interface is an I2C to USB hardware device, based on USBIO from Delcom Engineering. I2C is a standard protocol that is popular within robotics. There are several ready made chips and circuit boards that are i2C compliant. These can be ready connected to the muio and are controllable once you know the operation codes for that particular device.The muio interface, thanks Steve! - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 30, 2008 08:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Make a survival hand-vise
Jim created this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a hand-vise. Although he says it is great for holding bone & fishhooks, I am sure it would be great for plastics and electronics too. This is a really good addition to your toolbox, even if you are not a survivalist.
A small, easy-to-use handvice can be readily made out of a one-inch thick hardwood limb. Such a vice is very handy in stone and bone working. It can be wedged between two rocks or in a tree trunk to provide a very steady holder for small projects (arrowheads, fish hooks, etc.).
Make your own hand-vise - Link
Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Jan 30, 2008 03:00 AM
DIY Projects, Toolbox |
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