Bruce writes in – During the last 4 weeks of the fall semester in ECE576, Advanced Microcontroller Design, students at Cornell University are given the responsibility of using an Altera/Terasic DE2 FPGA development board to build an interesting system-on-chip project. This year’s projects include an audio spectrogram generator, a voice pitch shifter, and a realtime […]
Eileen writes in – Hi Make! I just put up a post on our blog about making my own timer-controlled power strip. We’re a web design firm completely powered by solar panels, so we try to put power-saving and alternative energy projects on our blog. I love your site and magazine — keep up the […]
Designed for rural Africa the ALEUTIA is small 8W computer, here are some of the specs and info… During peak performance, the E1 consumes just 8W of power, 4% of what a typical (200W) desktop uses. Runs off a car battery or a cheap solar panel. Keep Working During Power Cuts! A UPS that will […]
David writes in – I put this site together really quickly to document a project I’ve been working on from time to time for a while now. This device plugs into a PC and streams my friends’ latest Twitter messages across its little LED screen. There are lots of skills that would probably be of […]
It’s been a year since our last open source gift guide – this year there is so much going on in the world of MAKE, open source, and beyond that we have a series of gift guides for this holiday season. The first one is our open source hardware gift guide – these are physical […]
Here’s the latest espressotronic creation in the long human tradition of modifying machines to produce the perfect cup of coffee. The goal of this project is to create a computer interface for my Gaggia Espresso machine replacing the factory thermal switches with a PID controller and the “steam” and “pump” toggle switches with a LCD/button […]
Chris Chapman writes: I’ve been working on reverse-engineering the Braun Tassimo T1200/T1400 hot beverage system from its barcoded T-DISC brewing pods. The barcodes are used to “program” the machine to make a particular beverage using a specific amount of water at a particular temperature and for a certain duration of time. My efforts have been […]
