From the MAKE Flickr pool Andrew’s neglected subwoofer found new life as a mini guitar amp – So I made the $5 Cracker box amplifier (makezine.com/09/crackerboxamp) almost a year ago, and the box I had put it in was falling apart, even though I had reinforced it with more cardboard. Anyway, I was looking at […]
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your workflow, […]
Here’s a kit company, called Phenostream, we’ve never heard of before offering an interesting-looking and very inexpensive AVR-based robot kit. As you can see from the photo, the AVRkitCar is very tiny. It sells for CDN$85, which is around US$70. I’ll see if I can’t get an evaluation unit from them and do a full-blown […]
Adafruit points to these kits for building weather station monitoring instruments (humidity, temperature, solar radiation sensor, lightening strike counter, and wind speed and direction) and other environmental test instruments (soil moisture). Hobby Boards weather kits
We’ve been anxious to see how this amazing calendar clock turned out since we first wrote about it last April. One year later, it’s finished! Actually, it was finished in December — the builder, Sean Gallagher, finished it over the holidays, as a present to himself. Really incredible design, engineering, and craftsmanship. And it’s driven […]
Lorin, of Electric Western, writes: People get excited about tubes, and they do some nifty things with them (even beyond audio). I’m trying to make working with them a little more accessible. So, I published a Power Supply design for tube experiments – with redundant safety and small size in mind, am providing a kit […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Compact LED matrix wearable Solar sculpture provides a mini sunset Arduino vs. Simon Cardboard box slide duplicator
