Tired of that that washer just washing clothes? Here’s how to turn it into a butter churner – “Popular Mechanics 1950” – Link. More new-old: Automobile hot dog cooker (Mar, 1950) – Link. Sked – Ski + sled (Feb, 1949) – Link. 1st-ish Helicopter flown successfully (Sep, 1940) – Link.
The gang over at Hacked Gadgets took apart a “spy video” car, if you need parts or want to base a project off a (somewhat) cheap set of components like RC control, video transmitter + video goggle, this might be the way to go. Plus you know in a few months this will be on […]
Finally, at last! You can build a low-cost, fully professional ASCII keyboard and encoder “Popular Electronics April 1974” – Link – but wait, there’s more, this keyboard showed up on the Apple 1 Computer – Link.
A MAKE reader writes in with a DIY RFID reader/cloner – “A public release of code & schematics for Jonathan Westhues’ Proxmark 3 RFID test device is now available. The device allows you to read, capture, and replay/clone transmissions from an RFID tag.” – Link & video of the device in action – Link. Related: […]
This clever Maker swapped out the LCD screen in a 15″ Powerbook with a higher resolution (1920 x 1200 display) – it should work in a new Macbook pro, and doesn’t require soldering, just assembly. Interesting, you’d get the same resolution as a 23″ Cinema display… [via] – Link.
Here’s MAKE Flickr photo pool member Xddorox, he made a street legal luge with brakes… the story of how/what/why this came about is a fun read (along with the definition of a bicycle in the Quebec Highway Safety Code)… – Link. Related: Bicycle how-tos, projects, hacks and mods – Link.
Here’s how to make a 4 x AA USB battery pack for an external USB hard drive, Sitnalta writes – “Not long ago, I upgraded the hard drive in my laptop from an 80GB 4200RPM to a 120GB 5200RPM. Not wanting to let my old 2.5” drive go to waste, I bought a rather nice […]
