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July 31, 2007
Modern porch furniture from old car parts
Modern porch furniture from old car parts. Popular Mechanics 1938 - Link.
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Car hoods roof - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 31, 2007 12:00 AM
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July 30, 2007
Making external HDs on the cheap
I've written a review on Street Tech of the Ultra 3.5" hard drive enclosure that TigerDirect is selling for under $20. I knew rolling your own external HD was easy, but it's mindlessly simple, and you can save some money. For instance, TigerDirect sells an 80GB Ultra drive (a WD HD in an Ultra case) for $90. You can buy the same drive for $45 and the case for $20, saving yourself $25 for less than five minutes work. Or you most likely have an HD in an old computer you can yank, re-case, and use as an external backup drive. That's what I'm doing.
Ultra 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 30, 2007 04:00 PM
Computers, DIY Projects, Gadgets, Reviews |
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HOW TO - Build a portable device cradle
This Instructable shows you how to create a device docking cradle using an old keyboard wrist-rest. Too bad there aren't more photos of the build (the drawings were done in MS Paint!).
Easy P.D.C. (Portable Device Cradle) - [via] Link
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Jul 30, 2007 09:50 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Gadgets, Instructables |
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July 29, 2007
Wiimote as car accelerometer
This fairly simple hack uses a Nintendo Wii remote to capture G-force readings in a car, dump it to a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) text file, and then graph it via Excel. The results aren't the most precise, but apparently good enough to give you some useful feedback on car mods.
Wii Remote Measurements [via] - Link
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Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 29, 2007 03:50 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Gaming, Toys and Games, Transportation |
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Six-button capacitive touch pad
JustDIY has project for creating a six-button touch pad using the Quantum QProx QT160 QTouch chip. The build looks fairly straightforward, with the QTouch chip doing most of the heavy lifting. Gordon says you have to use mylar caps, as ceramics can't cut it. He promises more details later.
Capacitive touch sensing - Link
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Jul 29, 2007 03:04 PM
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July 28, 2007
HOW TO - Make a simple fly trap
Here's an Instructable on how to make an old school fly trap from a 2 liter bottle and a leftover food container.
Fly Trap - Link
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Jul 28, 2007 06:26 PM
DIY Projects, Green, Instructables |
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July 27, 2007
Home roasting rigs building contest
HomeRoasters.org, a community of avid (rabid?) home coffee roasters, is running the first-ever Roaster Building Competition. There are only a few days left in the contest (deadline is July 31st, midnight, Pacific time). The winning rig will be announced on August 15th. Submitted roasters are available for viewing on the association's Discussion Forum.
The Great HomeRoaster Building Contest [via] - Link
Related:
- Homemade and seriously modified coffee roasters - Link
- The Solar Powered Coffee Roaster - Link.
- Hot Rod
- home coffee roasters - Link.
- Hacking Coffee Machines - Link.
- Coffee Art (video) - Link.
- Homemade coffee roaster - The Uglyroast - Link.
From the pages of MAKE:
- DIY Coffee - The Bottomless Portafilter, Mod your espresso maker's filter holder for a tastier cup. Hot On The Spot, Get consistent shots by adding precise temperature control to your espresso maker. Automate - What good is a coffee pot if it can't be controlled from the internet?
- Coffee Roaster - Lots of folks think that quaffing a cup of coffee from boutique beans comes close to nirvana, but roasting your own beans will bring you even closer. That's why I call this roaster the Nirvana Machine. MAKE 08 - Page 110. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition!
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 27, 2007 08:00 PM
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Make a Tabletop Biosphere - Make: Video Podcast
This weekend, watch the video, download the pdf and create a closed system to live on your windowsill! If you have an aquarium, you probably have all the chemicals you need for this. If you have to buy new chemicals, you'll have enough for hundreds of biospheres! - Subscribe Link
Weekend Projects is sponsored by Microchip Technology. Check out their seminars and the Microchip Masters Conference.
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jul 27, 2007 07:31 AM
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Make a Tabletop Biosphere - Make: PDFcast
This week, download the companion PDF to the Make: Video Podcast which includes the article written by Martin John Brown as seen in Make: Volume 10. PDF Link
I found it difficult to get amphipods in New York City until I went to Turtle Pond in central park and found a murky muddy place and scooped up some water and milfoil. There were lots of small little worms and teeny tiny leechy looking things that were too small for me to photograph, but interesting to observe. I'm hoping that some of the little critters in there are amphipods and will be able to do their part to keep the biosphere balanced.
When you take a break from staring at your biosphere, it's cool to check out some of the other large scale biospheres that have existed!
Biosphere 2 - Link
Bios-3 - Link
If you make a table top biosphere, make sure to take photos and upload them to the Make: Flickr Pool.
You can get all the Make: videos and PDFs automatically by subscribing in itunes! - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jul 27, 2007 03:00 AM
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July 26, 2007
Make your own Moonbeam
Earlier in the week, we covered the Boston Globe piece about the Moonbeam, a three-wheel microcar. Bre Pettis pointed me to builder Jory Squibb's website where he has background info, numerous pics, video and a "How to Build Moonbeam" project journal.
How to build Moonbeam, a 100 MPG microcar - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 26, 2007 09:17 PM
DIY Projects, Green, Makers, Transportation |
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HOW TO - Track (and document) currency
Remember when your momma used to tell you: "Wash your hands after touching that money. You don't know where it's been!" Well, now you can reply: "I do so! Let's see: it first showed up in Dayton, Ohio, five years ago, at a Sonic drive-thru, then it headed south, then west, spending a lot of time being handed around amongst Texans. It was even found on the floor of a Dallas strip joint!"Okay, maybe momma was right. Go wash your damn hands!
This is an excerpt from an item I posted on my site, Street Tech, a few weeks back, about a currency tracking site I'd discovered after seeing a rubber stamp on a dollar that said: "Track this bill at whereisgeorge.com." It was on a bill I was about to feed into a DC Metro FareCard machine. This morning, standing at the same FareCard machines, I discovered another dollar in my wallet with a different "Where is George?" stamp on it. Someone in DC is having fun augmenting money.
DIY Currency-Circulation Tracking - Link
Where is George? - Link
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Jul 26, 2007 02:55 PM
DIY Projects, Toys and Games |
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Pixie 2 40 Meter Tranceiver
KC7FYS soldered up this Pixie 2 40 Meter rig with Picokeyer installed. Nice tin! I looked around and found this walkthrough of a build too. - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jul 26, 2007 05:24 AM
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July 25, 2007
Huge lens: project or paperweight?
I like that MAKE contributor Steve Lodefink is suggesting you buy this "gargantuan lens" from American Science & Surplus (for $10.95) if for no other reason than it's badasss and will look cool weighing down your desk. Or, you can kick it old school (optically-speaking) and build an opaque projector with it. What's an opaque projector, you say? Ask an old person, anyone who went to school in the middle of the 20th century. It was a precursor to the overhead projector, which was a precursor to the video projector. It was commonly used to project (and enlarge) book art and other reference material onto walls and art media for tracing purposes. Stephen has a link to PDF plans for such a projector on his site. He plans to build one and document the effort.
Make an Opaque Projector - Link
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Jul 25, 2007 06:48 PM
DIY Projects, Imaging, Retro |
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Garmin quick-release mount with MintyBoost charger
Here's a great Garmin quick-release mount with MintyBoost charger mod, John writes -
The aim of this tutorial is to explain how I modified my Garmin quick-release bike mount (for the Forerunner x05) so that it can be used as a charging cradle. This allows the GPS unit to be used on long cycles/triathlons such as double centuries, ironman where the inbuilt battery is insufficient.Garmin quick-release mount with MintyBoost charger - [via] Link.
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Jul 25, 2007 01:43 PM
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Pac Man Wall Painting
On Instructables, jojoquadrat painted a Pac Man wall motif across his room thanks to his computer and a video projector. Link.
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Jul 25, 2007 12:00 PM
Crafts, DIY Projects |
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Green steam
Our pal I-Wei Huang, of Crabfu SteamWorks, sent us a link to this "green" steam engine, a super-efficient two- (or more) piston engine that is allegedly easy and economical to build. It has a very ingenious way of converting reciprocating movement into rotary movement, the action of which you can see in an animated GIF on the site. It's amazingly efficient, (freewheeling at a mere 2 psi).
Green Steam Engine Home Page - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 25, 2007 11:03 AM
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July 24, 2007
Successful High Altitude Balloon!
Jean-Sébastien Busque launched his own balloon and got pictures!!! Wow, these are great!!!
Via email:
I love your weekend projects. After I saw your ballon launch I had to try it. So last week I launched a hellium ballon with a video camera, a still camera, gps and a ham radio and guess what? It worked! Balloon got to 28km +/-. It traveled about 100km east from the launch site (100 km south east of Montréal, Canada)
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Jul 24, 2007 10:42 PM
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Tools you didn't know you needed
EMS Labs has a nice little rundown of five tools you might not know about, but that can come in very handy in your day-to-day electronics work. A fellow DC Dorkbot-er, David Rickert, who's currently building his own analog synth, hipped me to the Lead Forming Tool (top) at the latest Dorkbot DC BEAM Building Workshop, and it's definitely going in the shopping cart of my next online electronics order. I'm not good at judging the bends in the leads in my resistors, and there's nothing more unsightly than kinky components. One of the other items in the piece is an IC Lead Straightener, something that anyone who's ever tried to put, say a 20-pin chip, into a PCB or a DIP socket can duly appreciate.
And adding the convenience of these tools is not expensive. The Lead Forming Tool is a mere $2.80 at Jameco, an IC Straightener is $7.70, also at Jameco. The Vacuum Suction Pen (seen above) goes for $6 at Stan Rubinstein.
Five Electronics Tools You Might Not Know About - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 24, 2007 05:30 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Toolbox |
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Rocket cars!
Mark writes -
Last Sunday about 50 DIYers in Sydney got together to put amateur rocket motors onto an assortment of vehicles. Hilarity - and some lessons on aerodynamics - ensued. (Check out the pictures and the YouTube videos.)rocketcar day 9 - Link.
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Jul 24, 2007 02:11 PM
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Wii telescope control
This enterprising stargazer figured out how to control his Orion Atlas EQG telescope mount with a Wii controller.
Fun with an Atlas. Video inside. - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 24, 2007 07:07 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Gadgets, Science |
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