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: […]
I like the idea of using an EL panel for picture illumination, and I have another use for it. I need to take pictures of glass for an upcoming project and this would be a great solution for lighting the piece. To get really nice pictures of glass you have to light them from underneath. […]
From HackedGadgets: Here is an interesting build of some Automatic Closing Gates that was made for this wooden gate. It was built out of necessity, the builder had a child that he did not want running onto the road. The motor and gearbox is controlled using a Picaxe Microcontroller. Activation of the gate is done […]
Here’s a great way to carry around all of human knowledge, well – Wikipedia that is… use an old Psion 5mx, some linux and you’ve got your own Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy (towel not included) via Hack a day.
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 […]
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! […]
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), […]
