Lenore from EvilMadScientist writes – “You’ve got to see this b1tchin t-shirt from cockeyed.com featuring “a primed and loaded Arrow Electro-Matic Lever-Feed Glue Gun, with ammo.” The shirt says “You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hands.” Ooh, I swoon.” – Link.
Wimpinator writes – “I often forget to fire up teamspeak before I start a game, so I built a hardware radio to talk to teamspeak. It’s complete with an LCD to display the current channel, a mute control, and a toggle switch to change channels. The project is run by an Arduino board and talks […]
Warning: mysql_ping(): MySQL server has gone away in /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/db.php on line 481 [makezineblog.wordpress.com] Joe Grand and I got together last year to shoot this 19 minute video that teaches you how to solder and desolder. This is required watching for anyone wanting to get into DIY electronics. In this video you’ll learn lots of tips […]
This week, to go along with the Make: Video Podcast Soldering Tutorial, we present a PDF of Gareth Branwyn’s Street Tech soldering guide with illustrations by Mark Frauenfelder, which was published in Gareth’s book Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Robots. Between the video, Gareth’s guide, and the Primer in Make: Volume 01, there is no […]
Ralf writes – “Here’s a microcontroller based gadget that lets you express emotions or other information. There is information on the hardware schematics as well as the C program for a ATMEL ATTiny2313 microcontroller linked from the photos.”– Link. Related: Tons and tons of ATMEL projects – Link.
For a friend’s birthday, I decided to make the needlepoint Nintendo DS case created by Rosemary Travale (rosered) on Crafster (CRAFT post here). I loved the retro Nintendo game control look and it was a perfect gift to my video game loving friend. I wanted to make this fast, so I went with a larger […]
Nuxie1 writes – “Two cool projects I’ve just finished. One is a function generator, the other is a PIC USB prototyping board. After aquiring a brand new 20MHz Two Channel Oscilloscope, I felt I needed something to actually use with it. Including component selection, designing the circuit, breadboarding, PCB layout, homemade PCB manufacture through to […]
