The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
MAKE pal Peter Kirn @ Create Digital Motion (who also wrote a great MIDI primer in MAKE 07) is teaching a class in NYC, he writes – “I’ll be teaching a class on using the free Mac developer tool Quartz Composer to build DIY projects and interactive visual art driven by music, sound, and video. […]
You can buy a TiVo, a TiVo-like video recorder, or a Microsoft Media center PC, but who knows how long you’ll be able to keep/record all your shows – so – I usually try and get folks to take MythTV for a swing, an open source alternative. That said, sometimes setting up a Linux box […]
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race ~H.G. Wells… What’s better than riding a bicycle around? Roll’in with a homemade bike stereo blasting out the tunes… there are some DIY ones and a few you can buy – here we go… Thump: Ultra-light/ultra-efficient […]
Sarah’s Pink of Perfection video blog shows us in the most recent segment how to save money and recycle old jars to create nice lighting for those evening backyard BBQs. From Sarah, “I turned instead to the charming jelly jar, but you could use empty salsa and peanut butter jars to the same end. On […]
Here’s a great guide (PDF) with all the things you’ll need to get homemade/homebrew applications & games running on a Nintendo DS – [via] – Link. More: Nintendo DS MIDI – Link. Homebrew Zelda game for Nintendo DS – Link. State of the DS homebrew – Link. Homebrew web browser for Nintendo DS – Link. […]
The Rocketbelt convention 2006 is September 23 – 24 @ the Niagara Aerospace Museum, New York and looks to be an incredible event! I have a thing for rocket belts, it’s a Maker doing what we all dream about – flight. Most of the rocket belt efforts seem to be a labor of love and […]
Chris writes – “This is an homemade controller for arcade emulator MAME using the “Keyboard Hack” technic. (more infos on the great BYOAC wiki) It plugs on the keyboard PS/2 connector of the computer. Cost approximately 50.00 USD to make.” – Link. More: MAME projects, cabinets and how-tos – Link.
