Corey writes – “This weekend I spent a lot of time working on my MAME cabinet. In the control panel, each button and joystick needed a 1 1/8″ hole drilled. This meant 20 holes in my configuration. With my handy Craftsman battery powered drill and 2 fully charged batteries I went to work. I was […]
Shawn writes – “This is the best Polaroid Transfer tutorial I’ve seen online– nice photos and clearly written instructions. This is a perfect technique for spicing up your own photos or having fun with found slides. Polaroid transfers have a unique visual style that is a little ghostly, a little impressionistic, and often very moody. […]
The DaVinci Code is all over the place, but I don’t think you actually get to solve a puzzle or decode anything – in MAKE 06 we show you how to read the tracking dots in your color Xerox printer. Xerox and other printer makers put little hidden tracking dots on printed pages – MAKE […]
David writes – “Here’s my first attempt at making something with the Lego Mindstorms package: a scanning machine that reads the colors of the bricks that are put into it and that translates those colors into sound.” – Link.
Adrian shows you how to make a pinhole camera from an old Polaroid – “I picked up a Polaroid camera for $1 at a garage sale thinking I could add a pinhole and have a pinholaroid. I didn’t find any good online tutorials, and feeling confident after building my digital pinhole camera, I decided to […]
Ian writes – “The 01//atch is a binary wrist watch with an LED display. Additional features are accessible through a scrolling menu system on its 3×4 LED matrix. Current features include: voltage meter, binary counter, club mode and time display. The watch is fully programmable. Future firmware upgrades will include: stopwatch/timer, alarm, bicycle speedometer/odometer, data […]
Here’s how to upgrade your in-ear headphones using silicon or rubber swimming earplugs – Link.
