Homemade Star Trek shuttlecraft
David writes – “I’m building a life-sized version of the shuttlecraft used in Star Trek movies. Not finished yet, but you can see where it is going.” – Link. Awesome!
DIY Projects
HOW TO – geoTag images (assign latitude and longitude) to Flickr!
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Scalleja writes – “If you want to have the next feature in your photos “Click here to see where this photo was taken” just follow the following steps: 1.- Go to BeeLoop’s Lat/Lon to Flickr’s geoTags page. 2.- Move the map to the desired location and copy the geotagged text […]
Water cooling resources
Mobius88 sent in some great do it yourself water cooling resources from Overclockers: How cheaply can you cool a CPU with water? About $135 – 150. An introduction to High-end water cooling and more – Link. Pictured here, $15 PVC Reservoir from Mark Goudie.
HOW TO – Make a DIY mic windscreen (Zeppelin) on the cheap
At a recent conference I met Joel Greenberg and saw that he made a great homemade windscreen, I asked him to cook up a how to, and he did! – this fuzzy project can cut wind noise for a fraction of the price of professional models. – Link.
HOW TO – Hacking the Hummer DTV game
David writes – “Radio Shack sells a $19 TV game called “Hummer offroad Racing” which has a full Commodore 64 inside that can be turned into a full computer.” – Link. Related: Hacking the C64 DTV. Retro-gaming joystick easily converts into full Commodore computer emulator. MAKE 02 – Page 149.
Alphacool watercooling starter kit
Fred Hunt from Bit-tech.net has a great review of the Alphacool watercooling starter kit – “Take a PC full of expensive, complicated, electricity-driven parts, add about half a litre of water in aquarium tubing and plug it into the mains electricity supply. Up until a few years ago many would have laughed at such thoughtless […]
Water rocket powered cars
This rules – “The problem with water rockets is that you need acres of space to launch them without risk of losing them. It’s hard to restrain yourself when friends come over and do “just a little launch” in front of your house to show them how it works. Inevitably you launch again, increasing the […]