No-friction bicycle dynamo light kit
Here’s a kit (and how to make) a no-friction bike light dynamo. Learn about electromagnetic induction and make a bike light! – Thanks Hone Link.
Year: 2007
Kacie’s left handed violin
Tho writes – Does this qualify as a Make project? It started as a kit for a regular violin, but I mod it into a left hand violin. Unfortunately, since it is a kit and not a finished product, I couldn’t violate any warranty of the kit’s manufacturer. I hope it still qualifies as a […]
Japanese do-it-yourself cars
Spluch writes – Mitsuoka Motor, a Japanese company, has just unveiled a micro kit car “K-4”, equipped with a 50cc engine on its classical tested sports car body, developed for the do-it-yourself customers in Tokyo. It is composed of more than 500 parts and takes approximately 40 hours to assemble. The Kit-Car measures just under […]
Place OS X Dashboard Widgets on the Desktop
The F12 dashboard is one of my favorite features in OS X. If you have a widget that you use all the time, however, it’s sometimes a bit of a nuisance switching back and forth between the dashboard and your desktop. There’s a hidden dashboard feature that will allow you place dashboard widgets right on […]
vi Emulation for Visual Studio, Word, and Outlook
ViEmu is a cool add-in that brings vi/vim editing modes to several Windows apps, including Visual Studio, Word, and Outlook. It seems to have a lot of features that vi users are used to, and George V. Reilly (originator of the Win32 version of Vim, and currently releasing Win64 versions) has kind words for it: […]
1983 – RB5x – Intelligent robot (eBay)
Goodness, this looks great, it’s on eBay good luck if you want grab it, if anyone does let us know! We offer a rare RB5X, The Intelligent RobotTM by RB Robot Corp. of Golden, CO. Serial No. 0010140 (#140). This early example comes with its battery recharging nest, Reference Manual dated 4/6/83, specifications and sales […]
Learn how to make cool things at TechShop
Our friends at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories and the TechShop have a great “learn how to make things” series of classes coming up, Windell writes – This spring, I’ll be teaching several classes on Saturday afternoons at TechShop. TechShop is a San Francisco Bay Area “open-access public workshop,” located just off of 101 in Menlo […]