G0pher writes – “This instructable shows us how to make a magnetic stirrer, that can be used in your home lab, from the following items: An old 3″ PC fan A dead hardrive A 12v ac adaptor A paperclip Tools: Hotglue gun Screwdriver Superglue Misc Items depending on your taste for getting things done :) […]
Clever, James sent in this this javascript page works out the internal wiring of a stepper motor from the results of some simple tests. This is great for salvaged motors of unknown make – Link. Pictured here, Bre’s drawing bot, well, the start of it! – Link.
Alan writes – “Sanjiv Dutta saved some money when he decided to make this LED Based Handycam Light instead of going to the store and buying one. It looks very bright and based on the pictures on his site (scroll to the bottom) it seems to work very well!” [via] – Link.
Ben Heckendorn made a freaking Xbox 360 laptop, (buy his book, seriously) he writes – “A friend of mine asked back in May “Can you build an Xbox 360 laptop?” And I responded “Sure, can you pay for it?” He agreed, and thus I set forth on what was surely to be my most complex […]
Alexei (natrium42) hacked up a CF card adaptor for a Nintendo DS to connect up a 40GB hard drive, he writes “To get back to hardware development, I decided to do a quick IDE to GBAMP (GBA Movie Player v2) hack. I also took a few pictures for the few people interested in doing this […]
Pink is the new black, seriously. Grab a cheap Barbie Karaoke machine from eBay, junk store, or from a kid who wants to do something cool with it – then check out these schematics on how to turn it into a cool circuit bent musical instrument… [via] – Link. Related: Oodles of circuit bending projects […]
I’ve been working on a drawing robot lately. My goal is to make something work like the scribblebot that is featured in the current volume of the magazine. My friend 3ric and Adam are both helping me out but we need some help to make the image into something that a software program can use […]
