Month: July 2006

Bleach spritz clothing

Bleach spritz clothing

Prank writes – “This is a really simple way of putting text or other designs onto a T-Shirt. It takes about 1 minute, once you have all the materials. Basically, I put bleach into a perfume spritz bottle, spelled things out with magnetic refridgerator letters, and then spritzed over them onto a dark thrift store […]

New stuff @ Spark Fun Electronics

New stuff @ Spark Fun Electronics

Spark has new stuff up – couple worth checking out… Basic 16×2 Character LCD FSTN – Yellow on Blue – This is a basic 16 character by 2 line display with a Blue background and a Yellow backlight. Utilizes the extremely common HD44780 parallel interface chipset (datasheet). Interface code is freely available. You will need […]

DIY Tattoo gun

DIY Tattoo gun

Graphak writes – “Using the motor from almost any remote control car/boat/airplane, a toothbrush, Bic Pen, tape, and other random stuff around the house, you can make a real tattto gun. This is similar to the kind that prison inmates make.” – Link. Oh…Don’t build this, unless you tattoo MAKE on your arm or something, […]

DIY laptop case

DIY laptop case

Sgazzetti writes – “I’ve never bought a carrying case for any of my laptops, but the new MacBook Pro is so sleek and lovely that I decided I would spring for a genu-wine store-bought case this time. A little research has deterred me, however. Word on the street is that the case-making sector hasn’t really […]

Mouse mod – with a LCD screen

Mouse mod – with a LCD screen

Jani writes – “The mod that I’m about to show you is again somewhat different from the mainstream. For some reason I seem to like to work with computer mice and try to come up with different ways on making them… well, different. Combining unusual items together can produce very interesting results and hopefully you […]