Ruel’s DIY Electronics
Ruel sent in this massive project page with tons of DIY electronics for music. Projects include: Preamps, compressors, mixers, op-amps, MIDI and more! – Link.
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Homemade unimount laptop mount for cars
A MAKE reader sent in this eBay auction – “Looks like a guy is making his own unimount for 25$ – I’ve seen these for over 100$ everywhere I look.” – Link. Seems simple enough to make your own based on the photos, but $25 is a pretty good deal if you need to mount […]
Grow your own lawn chair
Seems like a fun project to make on your own, a chair made out of lawn – “The Grass armchair is self assembled, each pack contains 14 corrugated cardboard frames and 100g pack of grass seeds. You will need about 240 litres of soil, to fill in the frame. First find the right spot, because […]
DIY Ultrasonic sonar with LEGOs
Bert writes – “The Devantech SFR04 Ultrasonic Range Finder indicates the distance to the closest object within range. Echo’s that arrive later are received and processed, but subsequently ignored. For a true radar all signals should be taken into account. So, time to heat up the old soldering iron and make some modifications to the […]
Shoes made from grocery bags
MLeak writes – “”Make” mag had linked to some cool stuff about crocheting totes out of old bags, and I started a couple of those, but I didn’t have enough bags in the right colors to finish them. I decided I couldn’t wait for grocery day before I could continue crocheting, so in the meantime […]
Make videos for iPods – the easy way
A new version of iSquint for Mac OS X is out! This is my favorite tools for quickly making MP4s for iPods and everything else that plays MP4s – “iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X. It’s many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and […]
DIY Flash grenade
Abbabibble2 writes – “I’ve come up with a project that i’ve been contemplating for a long time. It’s a flash grenade made from a disposable camera circuit and a part of a pringles can.” – Link. Previous: Build your own Brain Assailant – Link. HOW TO – Make a sonic grenade – Link.