For the closet beer geek in all of us, ProMash allows a brewer to virtually brew a recipe before ever setting foot in the home or professional brewery. It frees the user from the tedious “carry the 1” calculations that abound in the brewing process and helps you keep track of the history of a beer as it develops over time. Updates are provided yearly, free of charge to registered owners. Link.
MAKE Flickr pool member Rob Cruickshank shows you HOW TO make an animal-shaped analog controller! You can use it for a midi knob-box, for an analog synth controller, for a paddle on a pong game, whatever. Here’s what you’ll need… Link.
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.
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