Creatrope has another fun project, a home kid’s gym – “This ceiling-mounted kids gym and climbing wall has seen a lot of use, and was easy to build once I figured out a strategy. It was around $125 worth of parts. It was inspired by a friend who has an even more elaborate one. It […]
M writes – “I got sick of waiting for my PCB’s to be made externaly and therefore wanted to be able to produce PCB’s for my prototypting needs by myself. Now, it is not too difficult to create even double sided PCB’s at home. However, having the vias conect the two layers by hand is […]
Joe writes – “Need to know if the garage door is open? Need to know if you pulled in far enough for the door to close without hitting your bike? Need to know all this with web access… I present the garage monitor 3000. When the car reaches the right spot, the LED turns from […]
Westfw writes – “Using the fact that many microcontroller pins have three states (+V, GND, or “high impedence”, you can drive N*(N-1) LEDs from N pins. So the little 8 pin microcontroller like a PIC12Fxxx or an ATtiny11 can drive 20 LEDs on its five available output pins, and still have one pin left for […]
Todd Bailey has made the coolest watch ever, it’s a clear binary LED watch, all on a rainbow ribbon cable – PDF Link. Related: HOW TO – Make a binary watch – The 01//atch – Link.
Johan made a guitar distortion pedal from an old walkman, there are not a ton of details, but looks like it would be fun to build – “..I’ve taken a walkman and converted it to a guitar distortion pedal. This was pretty easy actually, and I got the idea from the net and I wanted […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Franionmuncher writes – “This is how we made a highly wind resistant shade tarp for a reasonable amount of money. Total cost about $130. Most of that is due to the SUPER heavy duty tarp we bought. (Almost $90) I didn’t include dimensions, because the plan could be adapted for […]
