Do you have a first generation iPod touch? If you do, this is a cheap way to make an external speaker, and stand, so you can enjoy hours of YouTube goodness without the need for headphones. Seeing that Apple have sneakily added an internal speaker to the iPod touch Gen II, my Gen I felt […]
Gio points out this unusual recipe for a circuit board drill using an an old cassette tape motor – it actually looks pretty comfy to hold, but any malfunction in that coupler/drill bit would likely not be comfy – be sure to wear the appropriate safety gear, suit of armor, etc. – Make@home PCB drill. […]
Theodore Gray @ PopSci writes – All the components of glass can be found in two places: the beach and the laundry room. It’s possible to melt pure white-silica beach sand into glass, but only at temperatures of 3,000 to 3,500°F. Washing soda, lime or borax (a traditional laundry aid) added to the sand disrupts […]
Raphael Abrams (MAKE MP3 player and Twitchy fame) and Max explore the smelly process of high voltage cooking. More: HOW TO – Build a five foot tall Jacob’s ladder.
Via BB, Kevin Kelly writes: This is Tanya Vlach’s new eyeball. She lost her real one in a car accident a few years ago. I met Tanya at a film festival recently. During our conversation she said she was looking for help in turning her artificial eye into a eye-cam. You know, a mini web […]
In search of smooth-spinning hardware to use as a rotary input device, nvillar made use of an old hard drive – resulting in a sweet controller with excellent aesthetics – We admired the quality of the bearings in the motor that drives the disk plates, enjoyed the fact that even a soft flick would get […]
Michelle @ CRAFT points us to Leo Kempf, who writes: I made this house for my cat, Olive. She enters through a door in the bottom side and then ascends a ramp, which boosts her to the upper level. The front wall is plexi-glass, the floor is 2.5 inch thick old sheepskin rug, and my […]
