Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a fantastic Nixie tube take-apart article and photo set — Don’t you just love nixie tubes? They glow with a lovely neon color and have gorgeous stylized numbers– something you can’t get with a dot matrix– or even sixteen-segment LED or LCD display. Recently, we disassembled a well-loved tube when […]
MAKE pal Natetrue sent in his latest, cuff lights – We’ve all been there. Fumbling around in a dark parking lot, trying to find the keyhole on the car door or mailbox. Sure, you’d use a flashlight, but who has the room for those bulky outlines? Granted, the cuff lights aren’t the most practical of […]
In addition to operating Front Row, Keynote, and iPhoto, the Apple remote is capable of a few less documented tricks. You can sleep/wake your Mac by holding down the play/pause button (particularly useful for media boxes). Pressing both the play and the menu buttons, you can also pair the remote to your machine, so that […]
Robot Dreams writes – We had the opportunity to visit Jin Sato’s workshop in Tsukuba, Japan, and he was kind enough to show us many of his humanoid, and canine, robot creations, including the MIBO, a Lego Mindstorms clone of the AIBO robot. ROBOTS DREAMS: Robot Builder Profile: Jin Sato – Part 1 (Video) – […]
Viktor writes – I’ve been a software guy all my life. However, I was always fascinated by electronics, and part of my success as a programmer was due to my thorough understanding of how computers work. Back in 1999, I put that understanding to the ultimate test: I actually designed, and built, a simple but […]
MisterB sent in this video on how to convert a simple toy microphone into a hydrophone to listen to underwater sounds – Link & kit on eBay.
Alex writes – I have always found it a challenge to make things at virtually no hardware cost, using old parts in innovative combinations. Whilst such projects are usually quite time consuming, they do give you the pleasure of “being independent of the industry” and their picture of the state of the art of technology. […]
