HOW TO – Rotary phone Winamp control
What’s the best way to control your music collection? With a rotary phone, here’s how to make it! – [via] Translated page & Link.
Year: 2006
Coasters from Used Engraved Signs
Courtney Sexton sent us in his really cool recycle project — making coasters from used engraved signs. From Courtney, “I work with this stuff a lot everyday, and I’ve been trying for a while to figure out a way to stop throwing the scraps/leftovers/extras/rejects away…I would love it if there was enough of a demand […]
Make Podcast: Todd Kollin Makes Electric Motorcycles
Todd Kollin makes electric vehicles. If you’ve been wanting to convert a car to electricity, but want to get your feet wet with something smaller and with less wheels, you may want to make an electric motorcycle first. It took a while to have the motor and controller made up custom, but he says that […]
Ornithopter – The Electric Bat
Graham writes – “The project began after considering building a really small machine much like Matt Keennon’s Microbat and deciding a better bet might be to use an existing rubber design as a basis for a larger model to start with. It seems great minds think a like as you will see in this thread […]
Make a Recooler
Franionmuncher writes – “A project to make a “recooler.” We are hoping to use it to keep the ice dry in a drink cooler. (Thus making it last longer.) Then reuse that cold water to refrigerate our meat, cheese and produce.” – Link.
Alarm clock case mod
Carl sent in his alarm clock case mod, turned out pretty nice! – I did this neat little Digital Clock-Radio casemod as an excuse to play with lexan and update my bathroom’s decor a bit. It was a lot of fun and I think it turned out pretty well. It’s nice to know you can […]
DIY LED Spinning globe
Nick writes – “Here are brief details of a project I completed using a PIC 16F73 Micro-controller. I’d seen persistence of vision clocks, like these from Bob Blick and Daryl Bender, on the Internet and wanted to take things a step further. I wanted to make a display which displayed a clock and a spinning […]