HOW TO – Cut a Bell Pepper
I love this step-by-step tutorial by Polliwog’s Cakewalk on how to cut a bell pepper so that no seeds are on the pepper or the cutting board!
Month: October 2008
Typewriter robots get a facelift
We’ve written about Jeremy Mayer’s typewriter robots before here on Make, but here are a couple new ones he has built that make interesting use of the keys as teeth and the innards as legs on this spider-like bot. He’s also bent the body to add more expressive features to the “face” of this bot. […]
How To: Breakable Tombstone
This is a great instructable on making a breakable tombstone. The end result is a tombstone that explodes when you punch it. This is a great prop for your next zombie movie. So Halloween is coming up and you need to put your neighbor to shame. Well I am going to show you how to […]
Review: Rovio by WowWee
Robert sent in this review of the Rovio robot by WowWee. The new Rovio can be controlled via WiFi, and has a built in Web Cam. Somebody please hack this thing ASAP! Check out the detailed Review of Rovio More: WowWee Alive Cub dissection
HOW TO – Make a Charging Basket
Oh, Fransson! shows you how to make a beautiful quilted charging basket, a perfect place hold your keys and change as well as to charge your cellphone, iPod, or other tech accessories.
ReleShield for Arduino
You might remember Mau and his Flush-O-Matic that I wrote about a while back. He sent me his latest work called the ReleShield. It’s a relay shield for the Arduino that allows you to control high voltage appliances. No word on kits yet. This is a prototype for use Arduino protoshield and a few other […]
Making Windows XP play a little better with solid state drives
I tried getting Windows XP running on my 20GB EEE PC 900, but out of the box, it’s pretty sluggish. The problem may be that Windows XP is not being optimized for solid state drives (SSDs). Posting on the OCZ (maker of SATA SSD drives) forums, Tony has written up a HOWTO on making Windows […]