PVC Wide-angle and fish-eye camera lens adaptor
Cobbler writes in – I made this nifty little wide angle and fisheye camera lens adapter out of a door peephole and one of the world’s most versatile materials, PVC pipe.
DIY Projects
HOW TO – Make a leather bound book
Michelle @ CRAFT recommends this leather bound book tutorial for first time leather workers by Jared from ArmorGeek. I imagine it would work with ultrasuede, too, if you’re not into cow hide.
DIY: Pizza box scratch pad for DJ’s
I’m not too sure how I feel about the greasy pizza box, but I give 10 points for ingenuity. This is a great input device for any application that allows you to virtually scrub audio or video, and it can be built in only a few minutes. Make a Pizza box scratch pad
DIY: Table Top Tesla Coil
This is a cool project from the Volunteer Lab Rat website: It’s time for me to present to you my Table Top Tesla Coil. I had my fair amount of concern while building this contraption, as everybody else on the net start their build with a Java based calculator. At first I didn’t think that […]
AutoGuitarHero – HOW TO – Cheat at Guitar hero, the maker way
Michael wins the best Guitar hero hack of all time! He created a circuit that takes in composite video, performs signal processing, and then correctly “hits†buttons on the guitar hero controller based upon what’s on the screen – AutoGuitarHero via Bunnie. What is the story? “I knew the only way I was going to […]
Tiny optotouch
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Wow – Holotone grafted a toy phone circuit to an old PC gaming joystick and added onboard speaker, touch contacts, photocell/LED control, pitch control and more! – thus the Tiny Optotouch is born. The joystick itself is just two potentiometers, so I use them as switchable pitch adjustment on […]
Stinger spud gun
Shoulder-fired “spud gun” fires 10″ PVC missiles instead o’ spuds. Stinger Spud Gun [via] Related: Make a Spud Gun Instructions and 3D PDF The SGTC Mega-Launcher Spudgun From the pages of MAKE: From the pages of MAKE: The Night Lighter 36. Launch potato projectiles 200+ yards with this stun-gun triggered, high-powered potato cannon with see-thru […]