The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
Drawings and more from one of the original Makers – Leonardo da Vinci. [via] Link. Pictured here – drawing of a flying machine, 1488.
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Electronics schematics and science fair projects directory
Electronics Infoline is an electronics schematic and science fair projects directory, lots of projects to build and check out. Thanks Bulan! Link. Pictured here, a filter circuit board for earthworm seismic data acquisition.
Print to a dot matrix web printer…
Here’s a dot matrix web printer, it prints whatever you have to say on a printer in Switzerland. It has live video and audio so it’s some weird retro / futuristic chat with atoms. Webtruck sent in this technical info & Link to print.
Practical Projects for the Handy Man…
Keeping with this weekend’s theme of old Maker books – Practical Projects for the Handy Man from Popular Mechanics 1913 – The book contains over 700 practical projects (and over 800 illustrations) with instructions for making kites, steam engines, cameras, toasters, swimming pools, lanterns, sundials, hammocks, model boats, and much more. Ingenious writes – “It’s […]
Apple iPod updater and old iPods…
Ok, here’s something to consider before you update those old iPods – a lot of people are reporting that the new iPod updater is killing their old iPods. I stopped updating my older iPod(s) and pretty much just run iPod Linux on those, but if you do update check out all these threads, posts and […]
Make your own MAKE box…
Some Makers out there wanted to make their own box to store their MAKEs, so here you go! We have two PDFs one is the wrap and the other is the panel. The wrap goes on first, and then you glue the panel on the back, and that hides all the rough edges from the […]
EL wire barbershop pole…
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Guero Loco made a “barber pole” type light with standard Lytec EL wire Link. Previously: EL wire lamp project. Make a Glowing, Wearable, EL-Wire, Blinky Light Using Open Source Tools by Mikey Sklar.