$20 Dry erase board – ElephantStaircase
Cape and Ray sent in their how-to on making a super simple and cheap dry erase board – Link.
Year: 2006
Cheap Mic stand and pop shield
James writes “Here’s a microphone stand and pop shield built from a coathanger, a circle of metal, an old sock and some gaffer tape.” – Link.
Steam Armatron
Crabfu SteamWorks writes “Steam Powered Armatron Hack. Taking the best toy ever made – Armatron, and hacking it to be powered by a steam engine. There are no electronics or batteries what so ever, purely a mechanical robotic arm powered by steam.” – Link.
GRL at Maker Faire…
RESISTOR sent in the GRL video from Maker Faire – “The Graffiti Research Lab just returned from a tour of California sponsored by the Eyebeam OpenLab and Make Magazine. The G.R.L. met up in San Mateo, CA to create a geek mural on a 1974 school bus at the Maker Faire. Agents Lonely Guy, Micromonster, […]
The Cameratruck – Pinhole camera truck
Clara writes “We’re currently setting up an exhibit Spain’s largest and most prestigious photography festival, about the one month road trip we’ve made around Spain aboard a 5 meter truck we’ve converted into a giant pinhole camera. We’ve taken over 80 photos all around the Iberian peninsula, 20 of which will be exhibited in Madrid […]
HandySwipe portable magnetic card reader
Here’s a good portable mag card reader – “The HandySwipe provides a portable magnetic card reader interface and display. It collects card data from a “Type 2″ card reader (shown here), and displays the data on a small character LCD screen. Type 2 stripes are by far the most common in use, such as on […]
EL wire eye candy
Guerroloco’s EL Wirte project is now up on Instructables, he writes – “This project uses electroluminescent wire (a.k.a. “EL wire”) to create a glowing, flashing, spinning piece of eye candy that could be used as decoration, a disco light for a dance party, or just for taking cool photos. This is definitely a work in […]