Wood practice amp
Beautiful wood practice amp, check out the build gallery… Link.
Month: August 2007
Fonera internet controlled switch
cryptonoid writes – First thing i did was flash dd-wrt firmware on it. Since FONera router has gpio pins i decided to use one of those pins to control AC loads or turn a switch ON/OFF remotely. There’s a similar/better way of controlling AC loads – check out dd-wrt wiki. However, i only had one […]
HOW TO – Paint with smoke
wikiHow shows you how to paint with smoke! – Beginning with Wolfgang Paalen, visionary artists, including well-known surrealists such as Salvador Dali, practiced the fine art of “painting with smoke,” otherwise known as “fumage.” More delicate than charcoal, providing intriguing textures and patterns, fumage can serve as a standalone media or as an innovative approach […]
$100 DIY preamp
Ruel Oquindo writes about his DIY preamp for under $100 – $100 DIY preamp – Link.
Safe stunts with fire for the home chemist
writes – Popular Science 1934 – OF ALL home chemistry experiments, tests with combustibles offer the most in spectacular fun and harmless excitement. For even after some 60,000 years of use, fire still holds a mysterious fascination. Although we are accustomed to kindling a fire with a match or some other small flame, a spark […]
Browse on the Wii in full screen
The updated version of the Wii Internet Channel web browser that was released in April has a feature that will allow you to “auto-hide” the navigation bar. It’s not enabled by default, but with a quick change to the settings you’ll get back some of that precious TV real-estate. Here’s how: go to the start […]
Cobbling together broken solar panels
In this well-written how to, the builder shows you how he collects broken photovoltaic (PV) cells and panels (sold on the cheap at places like Electronic Goldmine and Silicon Solar) and then wires them up and re-cases them to create new PV panels. How to MAKE PV Solar Panels – Link