The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Here’s a pretty nice how to on building a MAME cabinet out of an old arcade game machine. The author has also rigged it to play MP3s and function as a browser. MAME even runs from DOS in this version as well. Projects: Arcade Machine – Link
Megan sent in this great tutorial for fabric fortune cookies. She writes: Think of all the fun you could have with the notes or “fortune” inside – leave a love note, send to a friend, party favors, reveal you are pregnant, business thank you’s or favors and the list could go on! Fabric fortune cookies […]
Here are the details for the next GO-Tech, Ann Arbor geek meeting, 2/12/08. At the last meeting they made a BBB (Arduino clone) pictured here. Ann Arbor-area (MI) fans of Make Magazine, Circuit Cellar, Digital Machinist, Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, and other similar interests are cordially invited to the seventh GO-Tech (formerly NotBAGO) meeting, Tuesday […]
One of my favorite makers has a review of the Eyeclops, a super magnifying camera @ the Cockeyed Science Club. This looks like a great tool for makers for all sorts of things … Link.
Jay writes – Here is an Arduino controlled Charliplexed LED heart just in time for Valentine’s Day. It uses a total of 6 wires to control the 27 LEDs. A PIC or AVR could easily be used for this, but I have Arduinos lying around and they are easy to program. Plus I want to […]
Valentine’s Day is almost here. Threadbanger writes: Valentine’s Day is just around the corner….. have you thought of something special to do for your loved ones? No worries if you’re still slackin’….. On today’s episode of Threadbanger, we’re mentioning the unmentionables. We’ll show you how to make a lace up corset! (ooooooh!) and a pair […]
Frank Lloyd Wright, Oil Heat and Bolivian Cults – The origins of some great retro toys. I like the story behind the erector set – Because of the market pressures of World War I, the United States Council of National Defense was considering a ban on toy manufacturing. Amazingly, one man’s impassioned speech successfully stopped […]
