The FM radio band (88-108 MHz) lies just below the Civil Aviation Band (108-138 MHz), which is used for air traffic control, air shows, and other ground-to-air communications. This means...
Posted by Steve Hobley
Categories: Hacks, Electronics | 8 Comments
See Part 1 of this guide here. Thanks to Bart Patrzalek for the tip, and Brian Adams for the instructive How It’s Made video segment.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan
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BEAM robot building techniques allow you to build fun and simple little robots with lots of room for stylizing. BEAM vibrobots use pager motors to move. We’ll use what’s known...
Posted by Zach and Kim DeBord
Categories: Hacks, Robotics | No Comments
Many home owners with greenhouses or other temperature-sensitive areas on their property are often looking for a cost-effective method of receiving an alert should the temperature fall or rise beyond...
Posted by Nathan McBride
Categories: Gardening, Hacks | No Comments
Everyone has multitudes of USB flash drives these days, but their compact size lends them perfectly to getting dropped, misplaced, flushed, damaged, or otherwise lost. Very few USB drives come...
Posted by Marc Barbani
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Most EL wire displays are static, because they use an inverter that simply turns the EL wire on (i.e. constant-on). Sound-reactive inverters are available, but most of these are only...
Posted by Yardley Dobon
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This guide will unmake a Canon printer/scanner/fax into Maker resources. We are mainly going for the motors but so much more will come out of this eWaste. The principles and...
Posted by David Nutty
Categories: Hacks, Home | No Comments
I love mixing technologies to create an amalgam that looks like one thing but is actually something different. A case in point is the old hard drive that I stuffed...
Posted by Brian Nadel
Reuse a cellphone car charger as a switch-mode power supply.
Posted by Ken Rich
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Make these slideshow glasses inspired by Lady GaGa.
Posted by Angela Sheehan
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Repurpose a musical greeting card into a fun puppet.
Posted by Angela Sheehan
Categories: Sewing, Hacks | No Comments
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