LED hat wars!
Wow, within minutes of the Cylon hat post “Coffeeeggsbacon” posted his LED hat, nicely done!
DIY Projects
Cylon hat
In less than 20 minutes I made this “Cylon hat” for our “Make a Cylon contest” – just the MAKE miniPOV kit, loaded the Cyclon firmware and sewing it in a hat – tada, I’m a Cylon. Here are more details about our contest… DVICE, SCIFI.COM & MAKE are having a “Make a Cylon” contest […]
Making the RuntyBoost
The MintyBoost has been a very popular project here at MAKE, most likely because it is a perfect kit for anyone interested in learning to solder or electronics. It also happens to be very useful for anyone who owns an iPod or any type of MP3 player that is charged via USB. This is my […]
Portable speaker in a CD case
This is a well documented, and a fairly simple, speaker project. I doubt this would sound good enough for your next party, but it might be good for the beach or on a boat. Learn how to make your own Portable speaker.
AVR based game of life
David sent in his version of the game of life. It’s made with an AVR micro-controller and a 20×4 character display. Everything you need know about building one for yourself is available on his website. AVR based game of life Related: Get your own Game of Life Board @ the MAKE store
Homemade Leslie speaker
Ah, the sweet sounds of the doppler effect – The rotating Leslie speaker design has a unique way of giving sounds a sort of warm temporal quality. There are many electronic simulations attempted but designing and building actual mechanical effects is plain awesome. Update: As a commenter pointed out – the above video doesn’t reflect […]
MAKE phone + how-to
From the MAKE Flickr pool Pocket-sized decorated his phone to show off the name of his favorite website. He’s also posted an instructable describing the self-powered airbrush/blow-pen technique he used. Looks handy and easy to try – just make sure you don’t inadvertently inhale while painting. Related: Lotek airbrush