With parts you already have around your workshop, you can probably build this cable for using your iPhone as a guitar amp, as one Instructables user did: If you own an iPhone or an iPod Touch and happen to be a guitar player chances are you have already heard of either GuitarBud by PRS or […]
Gareth @ Make: Online found this cool paper transformer you can make from a few cuts, folds, and a few pieces of tape.
Garrett Mace’s Centipede Shield has some pretty cool features: The Centipede Shield is an add-on PCB for standard layout (Duemilanova, Diecimila) Arduino microcontroller boards. It uses the Wire I2C interface on analog pins 4 and 5 to provide 64 general purpose I/O pins. This means that each pin can be assigned as an input or […]
I’m fascinated by this story of a sort of “design archaeology” going on in the London Underground. Recent renovations at the Notting Hill gate tube station have uncovered these mid-century posters. The posters were located in a non-public area and date from c1956 – 1959 when the station’s lifts were removed and replaced by escalators. […]
If you’re running the latest Cyanogen build on your Nexus One, then you might like to take advantage of this mod that will allow the mobile to capture video in 720p. It’s still a little rough around the edges, but it does works as advertised.
Ever wish you could take a really close look at the contents of the Make: Electronics Components Pack 2? Now you can! This Gigapan image viewer makes it a snap to navigate through a huge image. Use “+” and “-” keys on your keyboard to zoom, or check out the handy navigation controls. Make: Electronics […]
I’ve mentioned my friends Scott Constable and Ene Osteraas-Constable on the CRAFT blog before, and Scott’s recent post about the ideal characteristics of the venerable sawhorse, along with a photo of some beautiful “indoor sawhorses” he’s made seemed like good fodder for a mention here. Scott writes: To me, there’s also something inherently a little […]
