The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Walter sent is this fun way to control your music, he writes – “Today I hacked my christmas present. A Wii remote controls my xmms mp3 player in linux now. Shake the remote and it switches to a new song. To get this working in ubunto linux you need the following packages: WMD driver 0.1.2 […]
Candace of Craft Daisies says to save your holiiday cards from this year to make cool gift tags for the holidays next year! Link.
Ryzellon writes – “You want to keep your noggin toasty in the nasty winter weather. You don’t want to wear a hat that looks like everyone else’s hat. You like lions (or dragons). Now you can combine all of these desires into a simple, yet useful, item of clothing that’s infintely customizable and tailorable to […]
Andy shows you how to build a simple IR remote stereo volume control – pictures, schematic and firmware source included.” – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Mushmouth26 made his own DIY poker table- “This is a $99 plastic table from Sams. I modified with cup holders for poker games. The table itself works great for poker. The problem was that the cards would get wet from the sweat coming off the beer… I made the middle […]
Shawn writes – Tonight’s the traditional Oaxacan Folk Art fesitval involving the carving of radishes… who knew??? ” A uniquely Oaxaca expression of the Christmas season is the Noche de Rabanos (Night of the Radishes) on the evening of December 23rd, an evening in which the zocalo becomes the scene of a huge exhibition of […]
John made a more interesting IR case for his entertainment system – “This will show you how to hack a McDonalds happy meal iZ toy into an IR receiver for use with a whole-house IR repeater system.” – Link. Related: HOW TO – IR remote control – Link. HOW TO – IR remote control your […]
