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Don't forget - you can also make your own slide cylinder for those twangy solos -Link

Related:

Make a 3 string slide guitar out of junk -Link

Posted by Collin Cunningham | Feb 8, 2008 01:00 PM
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License plate dustpan

Craig writes in -

The perfect dustpan for your garage. Take old expired license plates and cut, bend & pop-rivet a dustpan out of them. I even had a plastic front edge from an old cracked cheapo plastic dustpan I threw out months ago.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Feb 8, 2008 09:00 AM
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Miniature Silo Station

The Silo Station for storing fuel, luminous flux, and a communications relay station. Made from wood, plastic, concrete, metal, wire, and a touch of various adhesives and paint.

Related:

MAKE:08 page 80 - Tabletop Terrains -Link

Posted by Collin Cunningham | Feb 8, 2008 06:00 AM
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Teapotus Noisus

From the MAKE Flickr pool

Care for a cup of BZZZZZT? Witness the "Teapotus Noisus", another good one from pool member Whereisthecavern:

Noise, lights and tea. I need nothing more. It has a pickup installed and you can plug it into an amp and hit it and it makes all sounds of noises. It also has leds that flash in sequence that you can make flash faster or slower with the knob.

Related:

Atari punk console inside a old Ericsson telephone-Link

Posted by Collin Cunningham | Feb 8, 2008 05:00 AM
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LED Mood Light

Here is another mood light from Tobe, except this one is bigger and brighter. At least it is bigger and brighter than his first attempt that we saw here at MAKE. I like the form a whole lot better too!

After making my pyramid mood light with 12 high power LED's, I decided to make a bigger and better version, without the emphasis on the low budget.

LED Mood Light - Link

Related:

HOW TO - Make a RGB mood lamp - Link

HOW TO - Remote controlled RGB LED mood light - Link

Posted by Marc de Vinck | Feb 8, 2008 03:00 AM
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February 7, 2008

HOW TO - Spooky LED bulb

Mats Engstrom made this spooky light bulb mod using ultraviolet LEDs, fluorescent ink from a highlighter, and an old light bulb in this instructable. - Link.

Related:

Make a LED bulb - Link.

Posted by Becky Stern | Feb 7, 2008 09:00 PM
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Retrofit an old camera lens

From the MAKE Flickr pool
Utilize that classic lens on a new DSLR camera.
Member Arkku writes -

A Contessa Nettel Cocarette camera attached to my Sony DSLR A100 by means of sticking an 11mm M42 extension to the rear port of the camera. The moving lens assembly allows infinity focus to be achieved, enabling the 105mm f/4.5 Carl Zeiss Tessar lens to be utilized with the DSLR.

Posted by Collin Cunningham | Feb 7, 2008 02:00 PM
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Stepper motor twirly disc

Realevents writes -

The lunatic progress of the computer industry means that there are enormous numbers of small stepper motors in rubbish - most printers contain at least two. Larger ones from really big dot matrix and some laser printers can be used as small electricity generators, capable of outputs between several and twenty Watts. (See the page on steppers as generators) There are also great quantities of smaller ones which are not able to generate a really useful amount of power. On the other hand, they are made to a high quality standard and can operate effectively at very low rotation rates, so it's tempting to find things to do with them.

While using a small motor to show some people how steppers could be used as generators, I made up a coloured LED display to demonstrate its multi-phase output. We quickly realised its decorative potential, and I went on to make an improved version which used a discarded plastic car hub disc to mount the motor and the LED's. When the disc is spun with the spindle held still, the LED's come on in a stationary pattern determined by the magnetic pattern in the motor's rotor.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Feb 7, 2008 10:00 AM
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HOW TO - Make a "Witness camera"

Alberto writes -

The Witness Camera is an automated, self-recording surveillance camera, that uses a gigabyte-class flash card as recording media. I designed the Witnesscam because available surveillance solutions were too expensive or impractical for home use. I built the system from a VGA CMOS colour camera, a passive-infrared (PIR) movement sensor, an ATmega32 processor, and a 1GB SD-card. The prototype looks like an ordinary alarm detector. But when it detects people moving around, it silently starts recording.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Feb 7, 2008 08:00 AM
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Bronome - A RGB monome-like project

There seems to be a few people doing RGB monome-like projects, Brian writes in with his...

The Bronome project has been designed to address some of my personal performance audio needs. I saw a need for something more than just a USB interface something which could also act as a hardware midi controller. In that respect the Bronome is a brother to many other projects such as the Monome, Tonori-on, and MidiBox. It borrows concepts and ideas from all to make a unique interface onto its own. Although the initial facade is very much like the minimalist Monome 40h, the differences are in its use of light to convey meaning. Through visual means the interface of the Bronome can mutate or transform into a multitude of utilities, keyboard, sequencer, or display. The configurations are endless.

Related:

Full-colour RGB monome clone (Trinome?) - Link.

More:

Hackable, playable LED/pad music interface - the monome - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Feb 7, 2008 07:00 AM
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AVR Scope terminal - Oscilloscope terminal!

Jan writes in with a free app for Dutchtronix AVR Oscilloscope Clock owners (I have one, it's great). He writes -

This is an Open Source Application which allows you to use your Oscilloscope as a text based display device. The code is currently targetted for the Dutchtronix AVR Oscilloscope Clock hardware but could be easily ported to an alternate platform consisting of an AVR and some form of a DAC. The Scope Terminal displays 12 lines of 20 characters each. There is also a line showing the current time (it's a clock hardware after all). Configuration is possible using a "Command Mode" where you can use a terminal (usually a PC) to set options (currently Time Change and Baudrate change are supported). This alternate application can be downloaded to the AVR Oscilloscope Clock using the built-in bootloader; no AVR programmer required. Full Source Code is available on the website.

Related:

Oscilloscope Clock. V3.0 firmware of the Dutchtronix AVR Oscilloscope Clock has been released. The clock has enhanced graphics and many new features like Date display and set, Roman Numerals Dial, 24 hr Dial, Binary Clock display, hexadecimal numeric time, fractional seconds display, Automatic Daylight Saving Time (US and EU) and GPS NMEA input: connect the clock to the serial port of GPS device and you'll never have to set the time or day again. - Link & my build here.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Feb 7, 2008 06:00 AM
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Hack a $20 DVD player into an NTSC display

Here's a quick how-to on creating a composite video display from a cheap Cyberhome DVD player. There's even instructions on where to tap the circuit for audio playback. [via]-Link

Too bad some of the PCB images are so blurry - if only the author hacked his camera into taking macro shots . . .

Do-It-Yourself Macro lens -Link

Posted by Collin Cunningham | Feb 7, 2008 05:00 AM
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DIY $1 Popcorn Machine

This would be a fun project to make while camping, since it requires very few tools, and you most likely will have a can of your favorite beverage already packed for the trip! The only addition items, that a typical camper might not have packed, would be the piece of sand paper and some popcorn kernels.

Posted by Marc de Vinck | Feb 7, 2008 01:00 AM
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