J writes – “This is fast becoming my favorite show on televison and the Make ethic is very strong. They pick a long-distance trucker with an old beater, loan him a truck and completely redo his. But they also pick a theme and mod the hell out of the original truck. Mods include a hardwood […]
Drew customized his shoes and added a Duncan Yo-Yo panel – not a bad idea, you can get shoes at the thrift store for cheap and do all sorts of neat panels on them. One thing, if you make TRON shoes, please make them light up with EL wire or something, ok? – Link.
Build a do-everything manifold to control, dry, route, and use compressed air.
A little follow up to the light bulb project we posted, MAKE commenter Terc made a small fish bowl for a beta fish out of a g40 lightbulb. The fish (named Edison) seems to like it – Link.
Wow, check out these Atmel AVR Microcontroller kits for Linux – USB and parallel port versions, the best (I think) is they come with bootable CDs Link. Related: AVR projects – Link.
M writes – “I got sick of waiting for my PCB’s to be made externaly and therefore wanted to be able to produce PCB’s for my prototypting needs by myself. Now, it is not too difficult to create even double sided PCB’s at home. However, having the vias conect the two layers by hand is […]
Corey writes – “This weekend I spent a lot of time working on my MAME cabinet. In the control panel, each button and joystick needed a 1 1/8″ hole drilled. This meant 20 holes in my configuration. With my handy Craftsman battery powered drill and 2 fully charged batteries I went to work. I was […]
