Here is a ton of projects, components, schematics and articles on modding electric guitars. This site is designed for anyone interested in guitar electronics, particularly those who have never wired anything before. To further facilitate entry into electronically modifying your guitar if you so choose, most of this site was composed in a redundant fashion. Link.
Rebecca Spender´s KnitWit are smart needles that keep track of the number of stitches you’ve already done. Movement sensors in the ends record the movement of the needles. This data is streamed via RF to a remote base station which decodes the signal, looking for a specific series of movements which correlate to the formation of a stitch. When a “stitch” is recognised, the LCD counter increments. Link.
Computers donated from the developed world are both fuelling and feeding an appetite for computers in Africa where a new machine could cost more than a year’s wages. “The students are very happy and even the community comes to witness. It’s a big achievement for a school, and if it’s a school in one area you might find a migration of students from other schools without computers. Link.
The series was developed to provide a resource for the hobbiest, tinkerer, engineer, weekend mechanic, housewife, dentist, and poet. For you, I am doing this because I would like to help provide information that is not always readily available. The purpose of these articles is not only to help you repair your CD or VCR but more importantly, to educate. Therefore, they are not quite ‘FAQs’ but rather complete maintenance and repair guides. Link.
Here’s the video of MAKE’s Associate Editor Phillip Torrone on G4TV’s Attack of the Show. The show aired on Friday, July 15. We showed off some user submitted projects, hacks, mods and blew up stuff with a high powered green laser. At the end there’s the debut of an art project we’re doing too. CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO (QuickTime .MOV).
With a few spare parts, you can turn an old computer mouse into an amusing robot. On G4TV’s Attack of the Show we had mousey make a special appereance – anyone who watched the show could get the link to download the PDF from Volume 02 and build their own, and now you can too. I’m posted this to see if iTunes picks up the PDF so CLICK HERE and click SUBSCRIBE to get the PDF. Direct link here.
Your home computer is not only a tool for sending email and doing your accounts on, it can quite easily be turned into a digital recording studio. This transformation can be accomplished with little or no additional equipment. This guide shows you how. [