Check out this Instructable on converting an army surplus bag into a bike pannier. $5 at a flea market is a bit cheaper (and cooler) than the commercial panniers I’ve seen. Here are some other DIY panniers we’ve covered: Bike pannier from messenger bag DIY panniers from ammo containers
The Gomi Style guys have built a new edition of their telepresence robot, incorporating the Make Controller: Build instructions, including a custom Skype plug-in to control the robot via text messages, here.
Devon at NYCR writes – I recently updated my arduino ambient orb to use some boards I got cut at a boardhouse in Colorado, and handed off a few of the finished products off to various friends of mine. Well, my good friend John Erickson tossed together an awesome script for the election returns tonight. […]
During filming of the latest set of episodes, I gave Maker’s Notebooks to some of the wonderful crew members on the set of the Make: television show. We got to talking about modding them, and someone said, “I wish the thing had a reading light”. My idea is to use the embedded bookmark ribbon as […]
Remember back in the good-ol’-days when people would actually fix their broken electronics? Yeah, me neither. Check out this instructable to learn how to fix an old radio, and maybe save it from going into a landfill. Back in the day somebody always knew somebody else that could fix minor things on radios and that’s […]
Got an old keyboard and some thumbtacks that need fancying? Consider turning them into keyboard thumbtacks by instructables user noahw. More: Enter key doorbell
Interesting photos showing up in Leah Buechley’s photostream of reconfigurable circuit components attached with magnets to magnetic and conductive paint! Using a LilyPad Arduino variant, no doubt: paper computing. More: LilyPad Arduino LilyPad Arduino XBee mashup ready for prime-time
