Build your own wireless music player
Here’s how to a build a remotely managed music player out of a $40 wireless router, a $15 USB audio adapter, and a $12 LCD kit. [via] Link.
Craft & Design
From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
HOW TO – Make a two-tone stencil
Here’s a great Instructable that shows how to use one of my favorite tools, SketchUp, to make a 2D stencil from a 3D design. Link. Previously on MAKE, HOW TO – Make a spray paint stencil for a laptop.
Homemade portable, handheld Playstation 2
Forget the PSP, here’s a video of a homemade, handheld portable Playstation 2! [via] Link.
DIY LCD panel kits for artists…
Bit Editions is offering a $235 LED kit for artists – you send off your own animations and then assemble the kit to display your LED-ified art. The displays are 12 by 14 inches in size. They contain one LED per square inch. Each LED can show eight levels of brightness. Driven by a microcontroller […]
Atomic blast photos
Here are some photos a few microseconds after an atomic explosion by Harold Edgerton. “Edgerton built a special lens 10 feet long for his camera which was set up in a bunker 7 miles from the source of the blast which was triggered Nevada.” [via] Link. For some slightly safer high speed photography, check out […]
HOW TO – Build a Geodesic dome out of cardboard
Jon has an excellent site on making your own cardboard domes, he writes – “The design was borrowed from a 1973 edition of Popular Science and was improved upon to meet the rigors of the Black Rock Desert. These domes have served as an effective shelter against wind, extreme heat and, once painted, rainfall… Link.
Knit Your Own Digestive System
Tired of knitting the same o’ scarves? Here’s a surefire unique project you can make, a knitted digestive system that you can knit yourself with this complete pattern. [via] Link.