MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw: Drilled hole photo by ogk2009, TinyG Bot Mini CNC Mill by rileyporter, Blood Sponge Bag by eqqman, and Donut Machine Demonstration (AKA Saskatoon) by Steven Laurie.
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
die FernSprecher
I am loving the DIY gadget aesthetics of these FernSprecher voice-memo machines made from old telephone handsets by Jörg Schatzmann of Berlin. FernSprecher, one of the German words for telephone, literally means “remote speaker.” One button records a message, the other plays it back. [Thanks, Jörg!]
Pencil iPad stand
Being able to tear down a project into reusable components is always a plus. If you can save yourself from purchasing a $30 paperweight or wasting perfectly good materials on something that will ultimately make it into the waste bin, all the better, right? That’s why I like Julian Horsey’s Pencil iPad Stand. It’s just six pencils and four rubber bands. Presumably, when you’re done watching a movie or playing PvZ, you can break it down and tuck it away into a pencil box.
How-To: Install Ubuntu on a Nexus One
How would you like to run Ubuntu on your Nexus One? Max from NexusOneHacks.net spent this past Independence Day weekend cramming Ubuntu on to his Nexus One and has produced a short how-to explaining the process.
How-To: Bronze bell clock with Arduino
Instructables user 5Volt writes: This little rig infact interfaces via USB to your PC clock and generates hours and half hours dings on a real bronze bell. Great stuff to bring into your office and surprise then amuse then annoy your helpless friends.
DIY server room monitoring
Jared Bouck is the driving force behind Sprout Board, an Arduino breakout board that lets you plug in a Duemilanove and a shield and provides a panel-mount set of screw terminals, all in a rack-mountable form factor. The prototype application for the SproutBoard is a DIY server room monitor that can be configured to provide remote temperature and humidity, motion, liquid water, smoke, room entry, and mains power monitoring. Local monitoring options include an LCD display and an audio alarm module. They’ll sell you the Sprout Board itself, in kit form, for $50, or a complete bare-bones server monitor with a fully assembled and tested Spout Board, an Arduino, an Ethernet Shield, a serial LCD display, a wall mount chassis, and a temperature/humidity sensor board for $250, which is about 1/5th the price of a comparable commercial system.
Makerbot watch case
Nick Starno’s 3D-printed Makerbot watch case (can haz STLs in Thingiverse?) is pretty neat, but it also made me think it would be super cool to have a version of the PCB with a compass module included — pocket watch slash compass? [Via clothbot]
