The cardboard speaker a quick and dirty look at a DIY project- goals: light, cheap, portable, battery powered option, loud, bass, dirt cheap. Wow, this uses all sorts of thrown out speakers, duct tape, card board- our type of project! Link.
Tons of routers, many hacked up and modded from everyday things. Is it hard to build a router? Not really, it just takes time and patience. If you’re already running a router, then you’re probably the type of person to enjoys tinkering with things, so why not try making that router look good? If you’re stuck or need advice, then just search for help here in our FAQs, Guides, and forums. Someone will always try to help you in the forums! If you want to do more of the advanced stuff, then some experience with tools like a Dremal & soldering iron is recommended and basic knowledge of computers & electronics. Link.
On Friday MAKE was a guest on G4’s Attack of the Show. Before the show, Scott Moschella gave me a tour of the studio and all the places you really don’t see on camera. Here’s a bit about the appearance (we’ll be posting video soon, we had fun with lasers and I debuted my iPod box robot) and here are some of the photos I took.
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…Thanks to Mrs Rowling’s insistence not to release an electronic version of the new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, underground e-book pirates have already began to do the work for themselves. There are now homemade text and audio versions of the book all over the place; this somewhat reminds me of when Battlestar Galactica was released in the UK and not in the USA. Would folks buy a digital version of the Potter book if it was available? I think so. On that note, an e-version of MAKE will be out soon! [via] Link and Link.
The cycle computer sensor is mounted on the circumference of a freely spinning plate (in my case a peanut butter jar lid screwed to a sliding door castor) which is surrounded by three rounded cups (baby food cups, NZ$4 the set) and mounted on a pole (an aluminium towel rail). All parts are either naturally weather-resistant (e.g. plastic or aluminium) or made so (e.g. varnished the wood, used silicone sealant to prevent water getting in). The unit was assembled and then calibrated out the window of a moving car. Thanks Chris! Link.
Jim sent this in, how can we not post it! I’m posting this and submitting it to the Make Blog in hopes that the gentleman who let me photograph him on his custom bike in Knightsbridge yesterday will visit the site (as I asked him to..) and perhaps instruct the rest of us how to create a dual-bike hybrid like this one. Link.
