Wood stove from water heater
In the oldies but goodies department, Mother Earth News has an article on how to make a junked water heater into a fancy wood-burning stove. And yes, successfully completing this project does make your hair grow back:)
DIY Projects
Faroun’s Evolving Turbine Designs
Interesting Instructables and comments for the vertical-axis wind turbines that one Faroun is developing. Here’s his latest progress, based on 4″ PVC pipe for the blades: Check out 4 more turbine designs by the same user here. Things get a bit wobbly at the end, but much healthy progress with an admirably low cost setup!
Pictures From Austin’s First MAKE Out Session
Here are some photos from last week’s MAKE Out session, courtesy of Warren at Art Seen: Basically, it looks like a bunch of makers showed up, tools of choice in hand, and transformed an otherwise-normal cafe into a massive work session. I’m excited for the next one!
UPLOAD: Opening the door to digital arts and crafts – we want your ideas!
We added a new section in MAKE a few volumes ago and I wanted to introduce it here… Here’s Charles the section editor – The projects in MAKE encourage us to transcend our default role as passive consumers. Armed with screwdrivers and soldering irons, we boldly go into basement workshops, creating new gadgets or ripping […]
UPLOAD: Go green! Special video effects are available to anyone with a cheap camcorder and $25 of software
Go Green! Special video effects are available to anyone with a cheap camcorder and $25 of software. Greenscreen is the most powerful of these, and is surprisingly easy to use. By Bill Barminski – MAKE 12 – Page 58. Would you like to make a video of yourself standing on the moon? There are two […]
Xbee Adapter – wireless Arduino programming
Ladyada writes – If you have an Arduino project where the dev board is stuck inside a machine, or attached to the rafters or is inaccessible in some other way, a wireless programming/debugging link will save you tons of time. This tutorial is an extension on Rob’s version. In this version, no extra firmware or […]
iPhonola
One of our readers sent in this project that uses a vintage record player as a base for an iPhone dock. I love adding new functionality to discarded antiques. Check out the link for more pictures of the build. Umm… Yeah. So, about a month ago, I found an old Waters-Conley Phonola “portable” record player […]