Month: May 2008

DIY Box Handles

DIY Box Handles

MAKE Section Editor Charles Platt has a series of great moving tips in Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools: Make handles from half-inch plastic water pipe sawn into 5″ lengths. My local Lowe’s sold me six feet of pipe for around $3 and you can use any wood saw to cut it. You may feel this is […]

Bikes @ MAKE

Bikes @ MAKE

Gas prices got you down? Sources don’t need to tell us that fixing and riding bikes is the way to go. Here at MAKE we love riding, fixing, improving, and modding our bikes, so we thought we’d share all things Bike @ MAKE. New to bicycle commuting? Take some advice for city riding. Safety first! […]

Butterfly GPS shows you the way

Butterfly GPS shows you the way

This “Butterfly GPS” device was built with an ATmega169 microcontroller, a GPS receiver board based on the SiRF chipset, and an LCD screen that reads out the data in real-time as location, date and time. Very simple construction and nice details on how it was built at the PDF link below. A Butterfly GPS (PDF), […]

Linux based PIC interfacing

Linux based PIC interfacing

This project provides a way to do Linux-only USB communications with a PIC18F4550. This setup provides a kernel module in the development tool allowing for raw transfers from the PIC to the PC. Nice to see all OSes represent in the PIC interface family. Linux-only PIC development framework, [via]