Homebrew game trail camera
Almar writes – “This site shows how to build a self-triggering camera using a PIR (motion)sensor. Nice for capturing (unaware) animals.” – Link.
Technology
Hands-free tunes
Troy writes – “Assemble a switch box to switch from listening to music on head phones to listening to answering your phone with your left ear, while music continues in the right.” Link.
DIY Clear USB drive
Russ writes – “Clear USB Drive that I made after my case broke. It was cast in clear hobby resin.” – Link.
Homebrew spectrum analyzer project
Evan writes – “Make a spectrum analyzer out of a TV tuner. As NTSC TV goes away and MFRs drop their old tuner cabs it is possible to build cheap projects like this around them. These tuners are frequently I2C controled making them ideal for small PIC controled projects.” – Link.
Autotelematic spider bots (photos)
John writes – “Images of the opening of Ken Rinaldo & Matt Howard’s Autotelematic Spider Bots show at Sunderland Museum & Winter Garden on Tuesday 7th March, 2006. The structure of the bots is amazing and equally impressive is the $50,000 of donated rapid-manufactured parts that it took to make them. The Autotelematic Spider Bots […]
DIY Service monitoring panel
Steve from Radio Free Peterborough writes – “A home-made Perl-powered “anything” monitoring panel – I did a talk on this for January’s Toronto Perl Mongers, and it was suggested that this might be up make’s alley – so to speak. Driver is GPL. – Link. Related: Sneak preview of version 2 with 5 x input […]
ETech 2006: Roomble!! Roomba Fight at MAKE Fest
I’ll post a lot more on this later, but for now check out some photos and video of the first ever Roomba brawl! – Link.
