Year: 2008

Make a pizza box solar oven

Make a pizza box solar oven

This homemade oven is built from a recycled pizza box, aluminum foil, plastic, glue, and construction paper. It can reach temperatures up to 150 degrees F. which makes it a pretty effective homebrew oven, although it might take you twice as long to cook something than a conventional oven would. Still it’s a nicely done […]

DIY LED matrices

DIY LED matrices

From the MAKE Flickr pool Member Spikenzie etched his own 8×8 LED matrix PCB. He’s also posted helpful instructions and artwork used in his process – The 8×8 LED matrix is a building block. There is no processor or circuitry other then then LEDs and the copper traces. It is simply an eight by eight […]

The Polarized Polaroid Camera

The Polarized Polaroid Camera

Alejandro sent in this very cool device for making physical screen captures of a computer display. The web site has a nice video of the device in action. Just don’t forget to stockpile your Polaroid film since it’s not going to be around after this year! The Polaroid sheet camera uses the basic principle of […]

LEGO NXT Gramophone

The video starts out a little slow , but the end result using the coffee cup works well. I can’t suggest using your prized vinyl records for this experiment, but I am sure you have a few you wouldn’t mind trashing. – Link Related: Homemade way of cutting / recording records using a turntable and […]