TriggerDog has been doing the projects in Making Things Talk, and came up with a great way to take the Arduino on the go: Small easy, and awfully unorigional. But,...
Posted by Brian Jepson | Thursday April 17th, 2008 11:40 AM
Categories: Arduino | No Comments
A fume extractor uses an activated carbon filter and fan to remove the smoke, and noxious fumes, created from soldering. The average price of a small hobby version is about...
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Sunday March 30th, 2008 9:21 AM
Categories: Electronics, General, Tools | 67 Comments
Jean-Pierre Martineau made an instructable for making a pocket-sized watercolor set from an Altoids tin and some Fimo clay. Portable and practical!
Posted by Becky Stern | Tuesday March 25th, 2008 6:55 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Craft, Tools | No Comments
Altoids Tin Guitar
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday March 24th, 2008 1:42 PM
Categories: Music | 3 Comments
The MintyBoost has been a very popular project here at MAKE, most likely because it is a perfect kit for anyone interested in learning to solder or electronics. It also...
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Saturday March 22nd, 2008 3:56 PM
Categories: Electronics, General, Tools | 5 Comments
The Minthesizer is a low voltage, low power, analog synthesizer. The board is almost entirely made from surface-mount components, so you better have a steady soldering hand if you try...
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Sunday March 9th, 2008 2:28 PM
Categories: Electronics, Music | 1 Comment
I had some time this weekend to assemble my Daisy MP3 player kit. This amounted to 3 or 4 hours of soldering everything together, making a few mistakes, and working...
Posted by jstriegel | Friday February 29th, 2008 3:09 PM
Categories: Electronics, General, Music, Tools | 16 Comments
Check out this nifty touchkeyer (for CW or “continuous wave” Morse code) ham operator Jonathan Haynes ( KC7FYS) built into his Altoids-housed ATS-3b high-frequency CW radio transceiver: I put whiteboard...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday February 25th, 2008 6:00 PM
Categories: Electronics | No Comments
Tarikh and Josh from Uncommon Projects write in about the new Ybox 2 (The ybox2 is the second-generation networked set-top box in an Altoids tin) Hello friends and YBox enthusiasts!...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Sunday January 27th, 2008 1:00 AM
Categories: Craft, Electronics, Open Source Hardware | 5 Comments
Chipwich writes - We built a beeping flashing toothbrush timer like the one on the Philips SoniCare toothbrush for just a few dollars and plenty of experience and fun. DIY...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Saturday December 29th, 2007 3:00 AM
Categories: Electronics | 1 Comment
How to make an Altoids tin version of the MiniPOV! - It seems that everyone and their mother is cramming various projects into mint tins these days. Well, that’s a...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Tuesday November 6th, 2007 8:00 AM
Categories: Electronics | 2 Comments
MAKE contributing editor and technical advisory board member Bill Gurstelle is profiled in a piece for the Twin Cities Pioneer Press. Bill talks about the current “Maker movement” and his...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday October 29th, 2007 2:00 PM
Categories: Makers, Science | 6 Comments
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