Print Your Own Earrings
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to design and make your own earrings from photo paper, packing tape and duct tape. Make your own dangly chandelier earrings or add some simple beading for embellishment. Link.
HOW TO – Make A Robot Car – Part I
Make pal jason Striegel writes “I wish I could say I had a half-million dollar budget to put towards a Stanford style Grand Challenge vehicle, but I’m afraid I’ve already earmarked that money for thermoptic camouflage and bionic calf implants. Still, it seems like you just can’t be a self respecting hacker these days unless you have an autonomous Humvee or two. So, I decided it would be a worthwhile project to create a smaller scale robotic car. After a quick treasure-hunt under the sofa cusions and a trip to Radio Shack, I had everything I needed.” Link.
Super-simple DIY synth plans
“From Ray Wilson, inventor of the Soundlab Mini Synth comes the Wacky Electronic Noise Maker Thingy. It’s a much simpler circuit, which produces surprisingly cool pulsing, bleeping type noises. You can hear sound clips here. It’s made with a handful of components, a few pots and switches and a 9v battery. There’s a very clear schematic, a PCB design and a stripboard layout.” Thanks Tom! Link.
Make a propane powered radio controlled hot air balloon
Jim writes “Plans for a quarter-scale sized hot air balloon. Radio controlled propane burner quickly lifts the balloon into the air – and it is big enough to haul up a digital camera. Video of the balloon in action is downloadable from the site.” The plans cost money, but the freebie section has some good stuff too. Link.
Make your own crypt
Roland sent along this great DIY site for building Halloween settings “For Halloween 2004, we added a spooky crypt to our graveyard scene. This project requires a fair amount of work, but with a few helpers (at least one of which has some woodworking skills), you too can have a ghost haunt a crypt for your Halloween celebration.” Link.
Icebox the Igloo-making tool
Good tool for winter Make projects – The Icebox tool lets you build an igloo out of any type snow. I made 4 igloos last winter – all with different types of snow: one with heavy, wet, “packing” snow, two with new powder, and one with “sugar snow” – ice crystals that pour like white sugar. [via] Link.
iBook picture frame
Here’s another laptop to picture frame project – this one uses an iBook. The iBook screen was flipped around, a new color added and the whole thing uses a hockey puck to stand on its own. The power button was moved to a more accessible spot too. Link.