Chris writes – “If you are going ot make a lot of network cables, you might as well get a 1000 foot spool of wire, the ends, a crimping tool and make exactly what you want. I bought a spool a few years ago for $50 at You Do It Electronics in Needham MA. It […]
Bowdie writes – “I was always loosing the rubber earpieces from my Sonys, so I found some reaplacements, which actually work better (to my ear). I found these ear plugs at a local camping/outdoors store. They’re designed to reduce outside noise by using a removable plug to antentunate either high frequencies (in-flight noise) or low […]
Technical Video Rental has some tips on cheap video lighting for the how to series they’re making – “The most important part of a good how-to video is the content, but even if the content is great the video quality can make a big difference in how useful that content is to the viewer. An […]
Ruel sent in this massive project page with tons of DIY electronics for music. Projects include: Preamps, compressors, mixers, op-amps, MIDI and more! – Link.
Seems like a fun project to make on your own, a chair made out of lawn – “The Grass armchair is self assembled, each pack contains 14 corrugated cardboard frames and 100g pack of grass seeds. You will need about 240 litres of soil, to fill in the frame. First find the right spot, because […]
Bert writes – “The Devantech SFR04 Ultrasonic Range Finder indicates the distance to the closest object within range. Echo’s that arrive later are received and processed, but subsequently ignored. For a true radar all signals should be taken into account. So, time to heat up the old soldering iron and make some modifications to the […]
MLeak writes – “”Make” mag had linked to some cool stuff about crocheting totes out of old bags, and I started a couple of those, but I didn’t have enough bags in the right colors to finish them. I decided I couldn’t wait for grocery day before I could continue crocheting, so in the meantime […]
