Build your own telescope 05/11/2006 The Exploratorium has a simple how to on making a telescope using reading glasses – “You’re about to make a...
HOW TO – Salvage 9V battery clips from dead batteries 05/11/2006 Westfw writes – “You can use the top of an old 9V battery as a 9V battery clip for assorted...
MAKE Controller Kit 05/11/2006 Last year, MAKE magazine approached “MakingThings” to create the MAKE Controller Kit, a next-generation family of modular, programmable controller boards....
Instructables project syndication 05/11/2006 Wow, if you put your project in Instructables you can now also put the content on your site – “You...
LEGO Connect Four Robot 05/11/2006 Team Hassenplug made a connect four LEGO bot, it’s takes a very steady hand…! – “This is a robot that...
Breath of Fire – alcohol breathalyzer and a flame thrower 05/11/2006 A MAKE reader sent this in, lots of alcohol breathalyzer projects seem to be in the works lately, here’s how...
HOW TO – Design, build, and configure a (low-cost!) backup/server monster 05/11/2006 Sam writes – “I recently built a Linux-based backup server and I documented the process. We built a full-fledged server,...
Homemade high quality Minidisc recording interface 05/11/2006 Leorick writes – “So you want to get a high quality audio from a minidisc recording but when using red...
MIDAS: Homemade Dorm Room Home Automation System 05/11/2006 Barbara writes: “A couple of freshman roomates at MIT set up a full-fledged dorm room automation system, complete with voice...
HOW TO – Retro gaming on the big screen 05/11/2006 To heck with HDTV, HDMI, Wii and all that jibber jabber – Brian shows you how to play retro games...
