DIY Live has a short and sweet tutorial on reading color coded resistors – Link. Related: Resistor Color Code for 4 and 5 band resistors – Link. Visit MAKE in the virtual world and use our interactive resistor calculator – Link! Resistor Color Bands – Link. Homemade Simple Cardboard Variable Capacitor – Link. Soldering and […]
Matthew has a super LED lighting guide – “LED lighting is becoming increasingly popular in fish tanks, case mods, and even household lighting. This article intends to be a comprehensive guide to their advantages, powering them, and creating dimming solutions.” Link. Pictured here, LEDs from HOW TO – Build a 1,024,000 mcd portable light – […]
Just like these 2 past winners from last year, you too could be the one of the 36 chosen ones — fredflare.com’s next big thing! From the site, “We’re looking for creative girls and boys who make jewelry, clothing, accessories, printed matter, home items and more…36 of the most outstanding submissions will be featured for […]
Nick writes – “As part of a university final year games module we created a new kind of arcade table. We used our knowledge of existing hit arcade games, and added our own new technology to enable interfacing with Bluetooth enabled camera phones in order to enhance playability. Here’s the step-by-step documentation of how we […]
Lower the drawbridge! Build your own chicken moat. Surround your veggie garden with a moat full of hungry chickens ready to eat bad bugs and protect your garden [via] Link.
Hal writes – “I’ve written an article about how to make the continents on a big metal globe. I suppose the interesting part is getting data imported from NOAA and then turning it into vectors so you can cut it out.” Link.
I store most of my important stuff in a series of text files, always have, and likely always will – on my Windows machine I’ve been trying this out – “Steganos LockNote will change the way you work with confidential notes. Application and document in one: the mechanism to encrypt and decrypt a note is […]
