DIY Shake flashlight
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Csc934 and his students deconstructed and then made their own self powered “shake” flashlights – Link.
Month: June 2006
Low cost ECG Tester
EWH writes – “In the developing world, engineers do not have adequate resources to properly repair medical equipment. The development of a low cost electrocardiogram (ECG) tester would greatly enhance an engineer’s ability to debug problems in current ECG machines. This project seeks to create a low cost alternative to current ECG simulators that, despite […]
Knit Cord Maker
Betz White shows you how to use this cool crafty gadget, the Magicord Knitter (looks like now called Embellish-Knit) which lets you crank the handle and knit a long cord in an instant. Betz then felts the cord to embellish her projects like this felt tea cup pin cushion. Link.
Sketching in hardware
Mike writes – “Sketching in Hardware ended yesterday, and it was awesome. We had folks from all over the DIY electronics spectrum talking bout creating tools for easy development of DIY electronics: David Mellis, of Arduino, Bjoern Hartmann and Scott Klemmer of Stanford, Nathan Seidle of Spark Fun, Tom Igoe of NYU, David Zicarelli, author […]
$100 Radiation visualizer
Jared writes – I started this project with more of an idea of creating a system that would visualize Cherenkov radiation via webcam utilizing a Gamma radiation source and heavy water in some heavy lead shielding to produce the tell tale bursts of blue light. Perhaps hook it up to the LCD window kit system […]
Make Podcast: I-Wei Huang’s Steambots
After interviewing I-Wei, I told him that his robots reminded me of Miyazaki’s animation work and he told me that he was in fact an animator by day and steam-roboteer at night and found inspiration with Miyazaki’s work. The walking steambot captured my imagination. I want to see one of those locomotive size walking down […]
Milk crate jerky maker
Tim writes – “Everyone loves jerky. Not everyone can afford it. Here’s how to make your own with what you’ve got handy…The bottom milk crate has a 40 watt lightbulb in a fixture that keeps it away from the plastic. A little fan scavenged from an old PC blows on it and makes the air […]