From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Flickr member callum_robey keeps his ears warm, well-fed, and stylishly dressed – I made these for snowboarding a few years ago and recently found them while tidying. I chopped a pair of headphones into the ear pieces of these pink fuzzy earmuffs and shortened the headphone cable. An iPod […]
Curious about exploring the glitchy goodness of the now-classic Speak & Spell learning toy but not quite ready to crack it open and get to the soldering? Perhaps the above how-to will be enough to whet your appetite. [via Matrixsynth]
What do you get when you combine LED throwies with a gaucho snaring weapon? This clever contraption, dubbed the E-bola by creator Tetranitrate on instructables. Using the LEDs and batteries as weights, this throwing weapon lets your prey know you’re coming. Oh, and also makes for some nice long-exposure photography. This is probably dangerous to […]
This setup allows you to make high quality voice recoding on the go. In fact, it may be a great setup for anyone that needs to record voiceovers and doesn’t have a lot of space. This would be great to use while documenting your next project! A decent laptop, an audio interface, and a microphone […]
If you are unlucky enough to have rolled over in your kayak like I have, then you will really appreciate this project. The goal was to install a bilge pump that was operated by you feet. This allows you hands to be free for paddling and stabilizing your boat. It’s a well thought out build […]
Skip to 50 seconds in the video and check out the homemade NASCAR simulator and then a homemade flight sim!… The maker writes… “built from pvc pipe ,junk, spare parts, engineering findings and driven by 4 modified industrial vacum cleaner motors. off a 12 volt car battery. it will run any game made, as it’s […]
Weekend update… I fixed the audio issue on the Citizen Engineer video, transcoding to Flash seemed to mess something up. So here it (above) & in HD again… and if you just want to see techno soldering action video (below). We’ll be presenting this along with a quick chat about open source hardware at the […]
