The cassette tape company Memorex seared the image of Ella Fitzgerald shattering a glass with her voice into many people’s collective memory in a television commercial that ran in the 1980s. With the right tools, good pitch, and a strong voice (or an amplifier), you can do this at home. How to Break a Glass […]
Here is some nice documentation on a PS2 controller hacked into a retro joystick. Pretty cool details on the construction at the link below. PSX – Link
Once a bible school teacher, now a full time maker Vince Hanneman is the owner and creator of the Cathedral of Junk in Austin Texas (in the lo-co area, also called lower congress). Tons of “junk” are donated to this 3 story pile of worship, he estimates there are over 700 bicycles part of the […]
This is a very well documented build, and could be a great addition to any workbench. Apparently the builder added the meter to a 0-30 VDC stabilized power supply, pictured above, to charge batteries. All the schematics, PCB layouts and .hex files are available on the site. This multimeter was designed to measure output voltage […]
What do you do about a night-light that has to stay on while your child falls asleep, and you don’t want to have to go in and turn it off every night? Buy a timer? No, that’s not fun. The solution: teach her something! So we repurposed an old broken desk lamp carcass, I taught […]
This is a good starting point for making your own electronic post-it note. Be warned, this is not a beginner project to say the least. The author admits a Basic Stamp is not the ideal micro-controller. Maybe an Arduino would be better? – Link
The exhibition, “I Want To Believe” by Chinese artist, Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim Museum in New York presents nine real cars in a cinematic progression that simulates a car bombing and is an amazing feat of balance, lights, and energy. Really worth checking out just to figure out how he managed to suspend these […]
