The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
In Vietnam, there is a shortage of endoscopes, with normally only one in each province. A hospital doctor in the poor rural area around the Mekong Delta in Vietnam has used his PC and some cheap parts to create a homemade endoscope. Thanks Ewan! Link.
Mike writes “Many people may already be aware of this mounting method. It is very old, but very useful as well. It is cheap, easy to do and very strong. I post it here for the newbie that has yet to get into the do-it-yourself scene in hopes that it may inspire them to get some power tools and make something. Something as simple as mounting your surrounds with a mount you made could be just the spark they need to begin an adventure into the wonderful world of do-it-yourself”. Link.
…examples of game cartridges and portable systems that have been circuit bent to create a nice glitch aesthetic & sound…Jumpstart has been bending the Gauntlet game on Sega Master System II here. Link.
It run doom on it! MAME for Digita, the first truly portable version of MAME, emulating Donky Kong and Doom for Digita running shareware Doom on a Kodak DC265 Digita OS based digital camera. MAME for the Sega Dreamcast video game console connected to a TV emulating Xevious. Thanks Doug! Link.
It’s never too early to start planning for Halloween – Fasten a large grotesque head to the end of a stick four or five feet long; around the neck gather a skirt of black material, long enough to reach the ground when the end of the stick is extended at arm’s length above the head of the operator inside... We also have a great Halloween project in MAKE volume 03. Link.
These dolls are blank and come with markers so your kids (or anyone else) can draw their own designs, faces and more on them. They’re $40 which isn’t too bad, but I bet you could get a doll pattern and make your own DIY Draw-It-On Dolls. Could be fun for kid’s parties and such. My version might have a LCD as a head and you could draw on that… [via] Link.
Casey rules…a simulation of the old Wooden Labyrinth game. the cool part is that its controlled by a web cam attached to a slate Tablet PC. so you physically have to tilt the Tablet PC which tilts the game board and makes the marble roll accordingly. you can also control it with a web cam attached to a desktop computer by holding the camera and tilting the camera yourself (else you can just use a mouse). this is actually the first game i’ve ever written, and its also the first time i’ve written a Managed Direct3D application from scratch. oh yeah, the binaries can be downloaded … and i’ll put the code up within a couple days (need to clean it up). finally, there are also some videos of it in usage Link.
