Master from Get LoFi has circuit bent some cheap voice recorders – “RCA Voice recorders are fairly cheap and readily available. The one I used for this project was an RP5007 I believe, purchased for $5.00 at a second hand store. The bends implemented on this unit were all short circuiting of the Smart Media […]
Frogz in the Craftser forums has an awesome bag – “Inspired by the nintendo purse I decided to make my own nintendo bag, but instead of a purse, I made a messenger bag with the design of the controller on the flap. This was my first attempt ever at making a bag of any sorts. […]
Windows tool to test out your electronics ideas – there are free and more advanced versions ($) – “VirtualBreadboard is an easy to simulation and modeling tool that can be used in place of a real breadboard for quickly performing experiments and testing out electronic and microcontroller powered ’embedded’ applications.” Link.
Looks like the first seasons of MacGyver are for sale on Google video for $1.99 a pop (Windows only) Link. On a related note, MAKE is pleased to announce Lee David Zlotoff (creator of MacGyver) will be doing a regular column in MAKE!
Charlie writes – “Very cool article from 1939 about the first programmable electronic sign in Times Square (think the grandfather of the Jumbotron). Every single change of a light, and there are 27,000 of them, is punched as a row on a 160 column roll of paper that gets fed through the vast machine.” Link.
MAKE Flickr pool member Rob Cruickshank’s EL wire project, an angry flower – “My first attempt at making anything with EL wire. The flower petals and eyes are a single piece of wire, flower pot is two pieces, and stem is spliced to the pot (splice not visible) EL wire and “fish” driver from Coolneon.com.” […]
Ian writes – “This is a scratch-built MAME machine, based around my mum-in-laws old Pentium 3. Much more fun than Quake 4…There are a lot of MAME machines around, but very few cocktail-style cabinets – they seem to be mostly upright. I also haven’t seen any side-by-side two-player setups. The aluminium legs were sourced from […]
