DIY Projects

Guerilla guide to CNC machining

Guerilla guide to CNC machining

Michal Zalewski writes: The page is a remarkably thorough guide to setting up a CNC robot workshop at home, and a first article in a series on CNC robotics. I created it simply because there are virtually no books or useful reference pages for people who want to get into @home fabrication without an extensive […]

Flight instruments for an RC plane

Flight instruments for an RC plane

Jason writes – There are products available that will overlay flight data into a flight camera’s video stream, but here’s a clever and simple hack to do it on the cheap(er). To provide in-video flight data for a first person view aircraft, just build a mini flight instrument panel and position it in front of […]

DEFCON Badge hacking

DEFCON Badge hacking

MAKE pal, advisory board member and all around fun hacker guy Joe Grand loads up the details for this year’s DEFCON badge hacking contest… via Hackaday. Joe writes – Well, here we are again! For the 3rd year in a row, I’ve had the honor of designing the DEFCON badge. And, for the 3rd year […]

Build your own mechanical TV kit

Nice find and background information about this “build your own mechanical TV kit” @ Retrothing (the video is great!)… Here’s an opportunity to build and own a televisor similar to the device created by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird in 1924. Middlesex University Teaching Resources have released a clever £28.56 kit that includes everything necessary […]