Craft Tutorials Crochet Along
Craft Tutorials is having a crochet along. Vote for the theme you’d like in their online poll or find out more about it here. Link.
Month: August 2007
Punch the (alarm) clock, no really…
Here’s how to mod an alarm clock so that it will enter snooze mode when you smack it, Dimension Engineering writes – In this project, we will bypass the mechanical snooze switch on top, and instead turn the alarm clock off in a much more fun way: punching it! Hopefully along the way I will […]
DIY remote camera trigger (PDF)
Wiley has a 46+ page PDF on how to make your own DIY auto-camera trigger – [via] – Link (PDF). From the pages of MAKE: Kite Aerial Photography Puts Your Eye in the Sky. To take pictures from a kite, you need three things: a kite, a camera, and a special rig that attaches the […]
Old books sculptures
Alright, anyone know where these old books sculptures came from? – [via] Link. More book art: Bookshelf, from old books – Link. Book art! – Link. Book art – Link. Nicholas Galanin’s Sculpture from Books – Link. Book sculptures – Link.
The SunFlopper: a mini heliostat made from a floppy drive
Brian writes – This is still pretty much a work-in-progress, but I did manage to create a successful heliostat (sun tracker) from the above TEAC model FD-235HF 3.5″ floppy drive. This procedure will likely work just fine, with a bit of adaptation, on any drive new enough to have CMOS logic on its chipset. This […]
Modifying a cheap portable cellphone jammer
This is interesting, “Blastwavelabs” bought a portable cell phone jammer from a company called DealExtreme, it appears the jammer ships set to frequencies outside North America but it can be modded to work by turning the trim pots a bit (small potentiometers to tune/trim the voltage)… I’m not sure that would actually work that great […]
Math clock
Not sure where this clock came from but it’s a fun way to tell time with math formulas… It would be simple to make your own with any cheapo clock kit – [via] Link. Related: Continuous-sweep mini quartz movement clock parts (a clock kit I spotted, post up other/better/cheaper ones in the comments)… – Link.
