The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Isnoop writes – “For the past few months, I’ve been working on a web radio boombox. I’ve hollowed out a perfectly good radio and made room for a tiny motherboard and power supply that are set up to run Damn Small Linux off of a USB flash drive. There is a wireless card inside, and […]
This is an interesting project, a 3D terrain engine from scratch – if you ever plan to attempt anything like building your own 3D game, it’s a good read of the puzzle solving and compromises involved. Shamus writes – “My goal is to write a terrain engine from the ground up, using entirely new code. […]
HTRN writes – “Using an entire basement or large room as the resonant box and multiples of large drivers (the article uses 12 15 inchers!) and a monster pro audio amp, it reproduces sounds so low and so loud, they’re felt rather than heard. After looking at this, I went looking for my Sawzall!” Link.
This Maker on Flickr has had the same 14″ TV for over a decade dutifully serving retro console and computer games. When the power switch broke, he didn’t toss it like we usually do with modern TVs, he fixed it, his way – “The original switch was a two-part affair, the main switch turning on […]
PSP 2.60 firmware users, get your homebrewin’ on – “The beta release of eLoader showed us that homebrew was possible on 2.60 firmware, but Brown Ale brings it to the next level and is now on par with the 2.0 Firmware EBOOT Loader. That means that 2.60 users can enjoy all the homebrew that 2.0 […]
Yorkie took a broken pair of Logitech bluetooth wireless iPod headphones and added a $3 socket for audio, he dremeled the ear pieces and wrapped them up – now he can connect the iPod to his stereo system wirelessly and use the iPod as remote control – he also uses it to play Yahoo subscription […]
This is way better than the boring CD/DVD storage books I’ve seen. Pgiambat on Instructables writes – “I got hold of an old hardback text book and converted it into a CD & DVD disc holder. I used a book, some double-sided tape, CD/DVD disc sleeves and a pair of scissors.” Link.
