Jake writes – “I’ve been using this headlight for 4 years now and I’m still using the original bulbs. The low beam has power enough for speeds up to 40 miles per hour and on-coming traffic ALWAYS dims their brights when I flash the 50-watt high beam.” – Link. Want more? This one is made […]
Bruce writes – “Students in ECE576 at Cornell used Altera DE2 student development boards to build ray-tracers, audio spatialization processors, and image analysis systems. The projects are a combination of hardware, specified in Verilog, and software, written in C. All hardware and software was built and ran on an Altera CycloneII FPGA.” – Link.
And0 writes – To prepare for a 2003 doomsday “pole-shift” scenario, a group of survivalists put together this “Troubled Times” information hub. One neat idea caught my eye: using an old power drill as a makeshift hand-crank generator.” From the site: “The unit is light weight (2.5 lb), portable, low cost ($10-$20) and can be […]
DIY-Central shows you how to make your own XLR, TRS, studio cables “Looking to save some money? Create your own cables! By spending a few dollars on jacks, shielded cables, solder and soldering iron, you can save a ton of money in cables. It’s easy. Here are some step by step photos. At the bottom […]
Pablot writes – “This is the first hardware mod available for the Nintendo Wii. It’s called the PulseVU for Wii and is an internal chip that takes control of the light bar on the Nintendo Wii. It fades the lights when the console is off and pulses them with the audio when the console is […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Jonny5rd writes – “I made the tree a long time ago (i believe i was 12 or so), but several improvements have been made this year. First i hollowed out the trunk (with careful drilling), and drilled small holes through to each branch level. I then fed magnet wire up […]
Max writes – “Remember we had a preview of the upcoming SIXAXIS controller for PC? Well Garrett has now embedded the whole controller into his model airplane. He also added some special effects such as the motor which will rotate at a speed proportional to the actual throttle in the game. Of course, there are […]
