YAY! MAKE – Best Educational Resource SXSW Award!
MAKE won best educational site at SXSW 2006 – hot dog! Update: Here are the list of winners! – Link.
Year: 2006
The Bike PC…
I’m not sure if you ride this PC, boot it up (or both) – [via] Link.
Lightsaber for $33 in 33 minutes
CJanson has an Instructable on making your own Lightsaber – “We saw an example of someone who used regular plumbing supplies. We decided to try it but found we could improve upon if for ourselves. It requires no soldering, gluing or anything other than the following supplies and everything (except the faucet hole cover) was […]
HOW TO – Make a GameBoy CD player
Jordi writes – “Build a CD player with an old GameBoy, an ATAPI drive and some electronics. The CD player it’s a kind of game cartridge to play CD. This is the final version, plug it to a GameBoy and listen to music!” – Link.
Salvaged bomb makes a juvenile space ship
Luckiest kid ever – from Popular Mechanics 1955 – Link.
Vintage tech ad scans and more
Jason Scott is digitizing a lot of old computer and tech ads from the 80’s – [via] Link. Background – Link.
Jam Jar Jet!
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Cyclopticgaze writes – “The recent issue of MAKE magazine has an article on building a jet engine in a jar. I couldn’t resist building one of my own. Here are the results.” Link. Related: The Jam Jar Jet by William Gurstelle. Don’t think you can build a jet engine at […]