DIY Projects

Make your own photographic film

Make your own photographic film

What do you do when you can’t find the right kind of film for you camera? Make it yourself, at least that is what “dark orange” decided to tackle. This is an incredible undertaking, and you need to have some very good technical skills to pull it off. I love his description of the process: […]

The Sanity Nullifier

The Sanity Nullifier

Here is another fun way to irritate & annoy people. This time the noisemaker uses an ATtiny2313 to generate random noises. The website has all the code & schematics so you can build your own Sanity Nullifier. The device beeps a short beep of a very annoying frequency in random times. The time between beeps […]

Bikes @ MAKE

Bikes @ MAKE

Gas prices got you down? Sources don’t need to tell us that fixing and riding bikes is the way to go. Here at MAKE we love riding, fixing, improving, and modding our bikes, so we thought we’d share all things Bike @ MAKE. New to bicycle commuting? Take some advice for city riding. Safety first! […]

Butterfly GPS shows you the way

Butterfly GPS shows you the way

This “Butterfly GPS” device was built with an ATmega169 microcontroller, a GPS receiver board based on the SiRF chipset, and an LCD screen that reads out the data in real-time as location, date and time. Very simple construction and nice details on how it was built at the PDF link below. A Butterfly GPS (PDF), […]