From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Member Okini393939 built this stylin’ brain machine from what appears to be an old pair of sunglasses and enhanced the lenses with a mosaic-spiral look. He even thought to include basic instructions on the interior! “Close eyes, 14 minutes” – something one may grow weary of repeating to the […]
This is a great lighting technique when photographing portraits. The website documents the entire build process, and then shows some of the various ways to use your new light strip softbox. Related: DIY Grid spots for your flash
This clock uses an old monitor and a PIC chip to display the time in a fantastic, old-school, way. The schematics and code are available online. If you have an old monitor, this could be a fun project to display the time in your lab. This piece of software generates a standard VGA signal, displaying […]
This is an interesting SX48 micro-controller midi music maker. You can download the schematics and code on the website. Here is what the maker has to say about the project: This project uses an SX48 microcontroller at 75 MHz as an 8-channel frequency-synthesis music player with three instruments (selectable per channel): square wave, triangle wave, […]
The BitESC is the smallest speed/motor controller I have come across. It is designed to work with the motors from those tiny R/C cars we all bought at least one of, but now never use. Well, here is you chance to make a really tiny R/C plane The BitESC is a small electronic speed controller […]
Here is a nice instructable about making your own electric guitar. Actually, it is about making the body of an electric guitar, and attaching a ready-made neck and electronics. This instructable is really well documented and there are a lot of pictures and descriptions. How to : Make your own electric guitar Related: The Ikea […]
This homebrew MP3 player won’t make your iPod obsolete, but it’s still a cool hack using mpeg decoder ICs and an ATmega128 chip that reads data from an old 2.5″ laptop hard drive. There’s even source code at the link below. [via], MP3 Player with remote control construction
