DIY body scanner
Extreme maker and all-around bare metal hacker Jeri Ellsworth cobbled together this DIY TSA-like body scanner using a feed horn from a surplus satellite dish, an optical mouse, some components, and copious amounts of hot glue.
Hacks
Heat shrink fuse holder
I love this clever fuse holder that a reader sent in. All it takes is some heat shrink tubing, a couple of small springs, and wire.
How to keep your inventions from blowing up
Prolific maker Stephen Hobley has an interesting idea for protecting your wall-powered projects from self-destructing: add a lightbulb in series with them.
Collin’s Lab: USB Hacking with Arduino
Collin does a little hacking to get his USB-based MIDI keyboard to talk to his Arduino.
Hacking LED Christmas lights
San Jose maker Robert Quattlebaum bought a string of LED Christmas lights from Costco, and not liking the preset lighting programs that came with the set, he hacked the lights and wrote his own programs. This string contains fifty “bulbs”. Each bulb contains a red, green, and blue LED–allowing for any color to be produced. […]
Smartphone binder clip tripod mount
Thanks to maker DannyBR, with the addition of a quarter-inch hole, the ever useful binder clip has acquired a new talent: smartphone tripod mount.
Game installation winners canonized in knitting
Knit winner! The idea behind this installation at Mediamatic in Amsterdam is that installation participants play a game, and the winner gets his/her winning “panel” knit into a banner by a computerized knitting machine. I’m super happy to see the knit hacking Limor Fried and I did cited as preliminary research for getting this (way […]
