Use your N900 as a PS3 controller
Using BlueMaemo, the Bluetooth multi-tool for Maemo, you can turn your Nokia N900 into a PS3 controller. Install the latest alpha via the application manager with extras-devel enabled. The above video is in Italian.
Month: December 2009
New in the Maker Shed: Puzzles in Wood book
Originally published in 1928, Puzzles in Wood: Simple Patterns for Creating 45 Classics, presents more than 40 unique puzzles to challenge the woodworker’s hands and mind. Projects include bewitching cubes, caged balls, intricate banks, locked links, and perplexing burrs.
New in the Maker Shed: Creative Kinetics
Artist, inventor, and longtime author Rodney Frost is known for wacky, whimsical woodworking books that encourage readers to experiment. With his newest book, Creative Kinetics, Making Mechanical Marvels in Wood, he provides an introduction to the wild and whimsical world of kinetic art–art that moves.
Playing music using Dominoes
Here’s a low-tech way to share some holiday joy. Jared Lyon used a bunch of dominoes and some strategically placed bells to play the song ‘Carol of the Bells’ as the dominoes fell down.
Papier Mache Sailboats
I admit that papier mache is firmly associated for me with my lumpy kindergarten creations, but these Papier Mache Sailboats from Ann Wood really float my boat. (Sorry, sorry, it’s so hard for me to resist a pun.) They’re lateen rigged, which is part of what gives them that jaunty, sloping look. There are a […]
How-To: New Year’s Noisemaker
Here’s an unconventional noisemaker made from some prescription bottles and odds and ends by Instructables user buellboy492.
Favorite MAKE video series for 2009
What were your favorite videos that we did for 2009? There were too many to post each one, so please vote by the series and then tell us what your favorite episodes were in the comments. What was your favorite MAKE video series for 2009?(polling)