How to make a nice pair of halogen bicycle headlamps using only materials available at Home Depot…a 20 watt low beam and a 50 watt high beam with MR16 Halogen Spot bulbs. Note: Floods don’t give you enough range at speed and you want to get the bulbs that have a flat piece of glass at the front. Thanks Jake! Link.
...put a couple FAQs and walk-through guides on the PSP so you could use it as a hand held reference when you are playing other game systems or if you are between PSP games. It makes things much easier now that you can read normal HTML text and image files instead of having to convert everything to an JPEG file. [via] Link.
MAKE Flickr pool member BenSinclair cleaned up his workshop area and has a challenge for all of us – show your work benches! My freshly cleaned work bench. Normally it looks like something exploded. Let’s see some more benches from the MAKE group! Join in and post up! Link.
Great article with our MAKE pals, Squid Labs –The concept is simple: Boot up your computer and design whatever object you can imagine, press a button to send the CAD file to Lewis’ headquarters in New Jersey, and two or three weeks later he’ll FedEx you the physical object. Lewis launched eMachineShop a year and a half ago, and customers are using his service to create engine-block parts for hot rods, gears for home-brew robots, telescope mounts – even special soles for tap dance shoes. Link.
Merging his interests in physical computing and electronic music, artist and composer Tristan Perich will give a presentation on his recent project, One Bit Music. Electronics programmed and packaged in a standard CD jewel case by Perich play minimal glitch/dance music when headphones are plugged in. The device is meant to fit into the standard album-based method of music distribution: you will find it along other CDs in a record store and it has different tracks; it will be released by Cantaloupe Music in the upcoming months. [via] Link.
Build your own Japanese construction equipment paper toys from SAKAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD – My fav is the Macadam Roller -which is mainly used for rolling compaction in early stage and finishing- is the machine to secure the uniform compaction and the flatness of base course, asphalt mixture, etc. Link.
Home made remote control for a Canon Xt. to control AF/AE and shutter release and toggle switch, which can be used to latch AF/AE. Photo