Quick iPod Cozy
Lenore at Evil Mad Scientist Labs shows us how to quickly whip up a cozy that keeps your new iPod Touch all safe and sound. Link.
Year: 2008
Kawasaki KE-175 Dirt-E – Conversion to electric motorbike
FrankG shows you how to rewind a permanent magnet DC motor, make hi-current amp meters and GPS tech for eclectric vehicle assessment – Link.
Artist designs 100 chairs in 100 days
Artist Gamper Martino designed 100 chairs in 100 days, check’em out – [via] Link.
Blinking, staring eye follows you around the room
“Opto-Isolator” (2007) by Golan Levin and Greg Baltus is an art project that subverts the idea of the “spectator” into a reversal of roles for the artwork and viewer. The piece presents a solitary mechatronic blinking eye that follows the view of the onlooker and blinks one second after the viewer in order to produce […]
Make a push button ignition for your car
HAL 9000 writes – When i first saw my car, sitting on the corner with a for sale sign on it. I decided that I would buy it. I did. After that I decided that I really wanted a sweet push button ignition and an engine kill switch, like a rocket or a race car […]
HOW TO – Build a cardboard spaceship
Nice cardboard spaceship project to build with the kiddos – [via] Link. Related: Cardboard and junk mail M1A2 Abrams tank – Link. DIY Cardboard toy kitchen – Link. Cardboard rocketship toy – Link.
Waterproof APC
Who said you can’t make square waves in the pool? MAKE Flickr Pool member Rob Cruickshank created this nifty waterproof Atari Punk Console, utilizing his own custom weatherproof potentiometer design. –Link Related: Atari Punk Console schematics – Link Atari Punk Console in a Light Bulb – Link
