Custom built effects pedals
Great site and custom bass pedals, Mike writes “Once I became disgusted with trying to find a great sounding distortion/fuzz pedal for bass guitar I decided that since i knew how to solder and basic circuitry I was going to build one instead. After many hours researching on internet sites and soldering away in my basement, I have come up with two pedals that I feel have a great vintage, yet over the top, tubey fuzz to them… without the loss of bass most distortion pedals give you. Then, much to my wife’s dismay, I began to build other pedals…” Thanks Star! Link.

Interesting, the latest update for the PSP may lead to some new loopholes – PSPUpdates writes “We are guessing that the 2.01 update was a “hotfix” to clear the exploitable toc2rta libtiff exploit in the PSP’s photo viewer. Expect this 2.50 fix to be a more stable wall against letting hackers run homebrew applications and games on their PSPs in many ways. On the other hand, it’s easy to speculate that 2.50 could be easier to hack than 2.01 now that copyright video can be played on a memory stick, and the location free player has been added. Those two programs could open up potentially exploitable loopholes.”
Here’s a 3D version of one of the pixel ducks from Duck Hunt someone made – The Maker designed in 3D Studio Max and then contructed it out of a ton of wood blocks: Blocks used in 3D model: 1785, Blocks used in build: 1240, Approximate Weight: 17-20 ilbs, Length: 24″, Width: 17.25″, Height: 21″ Approximate Number of Hours to Create: 35-40. [
As Halloween approaches, we’re going to post some costumes and spooky goodies to make – Here’s a fun costume based on the game “Operation”. Felxis writes “Basic supplies – this is what I started with. Wire, a battery, doorbell, Krazy glue, velcro, some markers, Scotch and electrical tape. The metallic items are outlet covers, which I got from Home Depot. Really, any sort of metal will do; I just happened to like the box shape of these guys, and they make grabbing the candy a little harder”.
The annual Ig Nobels were awarded last week, and amongst then, some very funny winners a familiar one won! Economics — Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides (featured in MAKE volume 03).
Nice HOW TO for making a Mac mini into a sweet TV recorder “No, this isn’t the first Mac mini – PVR tutorial, but new products hand software have made this more interesting than ever before. And, with the best options available, this will be the last Mac PVR tutorial you’ll need to read”. The best part is the encoding happens off the mini in this example. [
Gary writes “This site has project information for amateur boat builders. This sounds particularly fun–The infinite modular sharpie: “TIMS (The Infinite Modular Sharpie) is an idea that has been around for a couple of years: Basically the idea is someone builds a bow and stern unit, then at a messabout, a number of people bring “middle” sections, and the whole thing is strung into a single boat.” I Googled “messabout,” and it’s “A Messabout is a gathering of amateur boat builders and lovers where YOU get to see and usually try out many different amateur built boats.”