The folks at Voltaic, purveyors of fine sun-powered products, are looking for a few good DIY solar projects to show on their website. They’re offering a deal: send them details of a project you’re developing, be willing to show the results on the site, and they’ll sell you the components at wholesale. Nice. See their […]
MAKE subscriber Rakesh Agrawal fashioned a garage door opener on his iPhone using some X10 gear and the X10 Commander app for iPhone. Using my iPhone as a garage door opener
Sean Ragan made this trash bag holder using PVC pipe, ENT conduit, and come ball chain clips to hold the bag in place. Beats the SkyMall version any day! Related: Backyard Graywater System on MAKE: Projects
Photo from Cnet.uk Build the Ultimate Quiet PC has a number of suggestions, ranging from cheap to pricey. Not got enough cash for a new case? Then you can modify your existing chassis. Among the best sound-deadening materials is the Acousti AcoustiPack Deluxe (v2) SE acoustic material kit… It’s essentially a pack of sticky-back foam […]
MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder made this stringed instrument last weekend and posted it on Dinosaurs and Robots: My goal was to make an electric string instrument that uses drone tuning. I don’t know anything about music theory, but drone tuning is a way to tune an instrument that makes it sound good no matter what […]
Syuzi at Fashioning Technology points us to this project by Brett Renfer which uses capacitive sensing via conductive thread and Arduino to make this button organ. In the Maker Shed: Lilypad E-Sewing Kit
Bill VanLoo used the Vibrobot project from MAKE, Volume 10 with his students at Honey Creek Community School. The 4/5 technology classes built Vibrobots for one of their project this year. Vibrobots are small electric bug-like creatures that are built from a small metal or plastic enclosure (think mint tin), a motor, and some ingenuity. […]
