NES Guitar Mod
What do you do if no amount of blowing on game cartridges is able to get your NES to boot? Well, if you’re a maker and a true guitar hero, you give your favorite system a new life as a rockin’ “NES Paul.” [via] – Link.
Month: November 2006
Fun with rectangular office technology
Wade Tarzia has a hilarious and interesting write up about “woodifying/naturalsing” office cubes – “Many of us are Homo Sapiens Bureaucraticus. We spend nearly a third of our days influenced by nearby office rectangles: desks, clipboards, typing stands. I am driven to think that these forms drive our bodies into unnatural shapes, bend us into […]
The Week in Tools
The week in tools from our friend Chuck! – “What Maker doesn’t carry a pocket knife? We gave up our daily-carrys this week to try out some new ones with blades made of chrome vanadium – an alloy near to any tool-lover’s heart. We also looked at a cordless metal circ saw (you’ll never cut […]
WiFi sat dish, pudding cup capacitor and more… AmateurLogic.TV
Neat, the latest AmateurLogic.TV is out! “The Active Cantenna is Back! But this time we’ve added a Direct TV Satellite Dish to see what wifi improvements, if any, it makes. Jim finishes the Pudding Cup Capacitor in this episode. Tommy brings us some cool night time photography tricks (or treats). And George found a neat […]
Sock Machines and circular knitting
Check out this great site devoted to sock machines from the late 1800s (visit the museum pages for tons of machine photos) – “Welcome to Old Tyme Stockings! – celebrating the tradition of sock machine knitting, the restoration of antique sock machines and the promotion of sock machine knitting. Circular sock machines were manufactured in […]
Beer goggles – eye glasses made from beer bottles
MAKE pal Scott from Urban Spectacles of Wood sent us word of his latest eyeglass creation, beer goggles – “These specs are hand carved from two bottles of your favorite beer, or any other bottle for that matter. And they also come with a legal disclaimer, because I’m sure there is somebody out there who […]
Camera Hacking – Make: Podcast – Weekend Projects
Like Doctor Frankenstein scouring the countryside for dead bodies to put together, so you, the camera hacker will scour garage sales, thrift stores and ebay to find old cameras to rip apart and put back together in creative new ways. Watch this video to learn how to take apart two cameras to make one super […]