Wow, if you put your project in Instructables you can now also put the content on your site – “You can now display your entire instructables project on your own web site! We’ve added the capability for you to grab entire project content in a format which is easily encapsulated on your own site. Why […]
Team Hassenplug made a connect four LEGO bot, it’s takes a very steady hand…! – “This is a robot that was designed and built to play Connect-Four in a contest against other robots, which it was lucky enough to win. During the event, it didn’t lose any games (once I remembered to plug the AC […]
A MAKE reader sent this in, lots of alcohol breathalyzer projects seem to be in the works lately, here’s how to make an alcohol breathalyzer and a flame thrower – “The Breath of Fire is the marriage of an alcohol breathalyzer and a flame thrower. A Basic Stamp takes a reading from a alcohol sensor […]
Sam writes – “I recently built a Linux-based backup server and I documented the process. We built a full-fledged server, installed Fedora Core 4 (not 5! waaaay to bleeding-edge), setup the server to serve the 4 backup hard drives (broken-up into 2 RAIDO arrays) through FTP (the protocol our software uses), and as a bonus […]
Leorick writes – “So you want to get a high quality audio from a minidisc recording but when using red and white RCA, the quality drops drastically. Here is my cheap solution for you.” – Link.
Barbara writes: “A couple of freshman roomates at MIT set up a full-fledged dorm room automation system, complete with voice activation, web control, touch screen controllers, a security system, fingerprint scanner, automatic blinds, screens with news feeds, etc, all actuated by a central “MIDAS” controller which they built and wrote the code for. Pretty cool […]
To heck with HDTV, HDMI, Wii and all that jibber jabber – Brian shows you how to play retro games on the big screen on the cheap. Click here to get the video (MP4) delivered automatically with iTunes. This video will play on PC/Mac/Linux/PSPs and iPod video devices. Ingredients: Zoombox – Link. Dreamcast Emulation – […]
