How-To: Hide a USB drive in a floppy disk
I really liked Charles Mangin’s USB floppy disk, so I was excited when I saw that he put together this how-to video explaining how to make your own.
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Hilarious mock ad for an electronic component
I don’t know I needed a programmable logic device for anything before I watched this mock spot for Lattice Semiconductor’s MachXO2 PLD, but now I want to put one in every device I design!
Your Comments
And we’re back with our twenty-fourth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Bob Alexander built a $20 spectrograph, and wrote in to share his results: I went ahead and made one of these (actually two – after the first, I wanted […]
Electronic sunglasses
Designer Chris Mullin constructed these electronic sunglasses, which detect bright objects in your view and selectively darken them by turning on part of an LCD screen.
In the Maker Shed: Pixel Qi displays
The Pixel Qi screen from the Maker Shed is a revolutionary LCD display technology for your netbook. This one-of-a-kind, plug-and-play 10.1-inch display offers two modes–an easy-to-read, real color, multimedia mode, or a crisp low power e-reader mode. The e-reader mode has 3 times the resolution of the fully saturated color mode, allowing for a high […]
Slick TV-B-Gone build
Not much detail, but I love the look of this handmade TV-B-Gone Flickr user nausk! submitted to the MAKE Flickr pool.
Lego gunge
Searching Flickr groups for “Lego” returns over four-thousand hits. Among the interesting oddities I’ve discovered so far is the LEGO Life-Size weapons group, which has 160 items. Shown here is M4 v5 by The Dawg’s Guns. There are also Lego knives, Lego bombs–even a wearable Lego Boba Fett get-up.
