Miracles you’ll see in the next fifty years
I love old science/how-to magazines and what they thought the future (now) would be like. Some are incredibly accurate predications, others… well, see for yourself… Popular Mechanics 1950 – Link.
Technology
Solar dress
Wow, this is a pretty intense “solar dress” from Studio 5050 – “Day-for-Night, an hommage to Paco Rabanne as well as a celebration of the beauty of electronics, is a modular, reconfigurable dress comprised of 444 white circuit boards (although the number changes as the dress can get longer or shorter). Each tile is designed […]
Make Controller Kit
MAKE Flickr photo pool member DDaniels has some photos of our (now shipping) MAKE controller kit & some experimentation with it… here, the MAKE Controller Kit with a scavenged talking mickey mouse servo. It uses a pontetiometer to determine servo position, and uses PWM output to drive the servo motor. [via] – Link. Related: Controller […]
DIY Audio splitter
Here’s how to build a simple audio splitter so two people can listen to your MP3 player at the same time. It all fits inside a small bottle as its enclosure too… – Link.
Add a LCD to your PC (USB)
Nnod has a follow up on our previous “Add a LCD to your PC” post, this version uses USB… – “If you’re a little more adventurous you can build your own USB LCD interface with a PIC or AVR microcontroller. It’s not as scary as it sounds. This is good because you can power and […]
Pentium II hard drive enclosure
Remember those huge Pentium II chip enclosures? MAKE Flickr photo pool member Treasonx made a hard drive case for a 20 GB drive out of one… – Link.
Gameboys and robots!
Here’s how to build a simple robot for $34 that is expandable to a wide range of projects. From sumo to fire fighting to soccer… Thanks Jose! – Link. Related: Steam powered Gameboy – Link. GameBoy projects… – Link. Tongue controlled Gameboy Advance – Link. Robot projects – Archives & Link.