Month: May 2008

Homemade sun jar

Homemade sun jar

From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Member MissionControl writes – I made this sun jar as a birthday present for my sister-in-law using a gutted solar landscape light, a glass jar from IKEA, and some glass frosting spray (following this example). I also upgraded the 600 mAh Ni-Cd battery that came with the light to […]

Wii Balance Board hacks

A few days ago, this video appeared with Matthieu Deru and Simon Bergweiler showing off a hack that allows them to surf Google Earth using a Wii. Unfortunately, there weren’t too many details about how it was accomplished and I couldn’t track down any source for the C# application that talks to the bluetooth device. […]

Abyssal synth takes you to new sonic heights

This custom built synth, called the “Abyssal” by Atomosynth (who we covered in Make back in the fall) is an analog, photo-noise and oscillating filter synth that features one square wave and saw waveform generator with a large pitch range, from subsonic to ultrasonic sound. Everything is controlled from a large photocell visible from the […]