George writes “Spark it up for the Fourth with your own home brewed sparklers! United Nuclear has the goods you’ll need.” – Link & Wired has a geek fireworks guide, from detonators to taking photos – Link.
SimpleSimon took an old cell-phone and made it into an RC car – Link.
Peter writes “Here’s a hands-on with Jaycar’s DIY digital SLR cable release kit, for producing timelapse photography, with a first experiment in photographing dyed melting ice. This is first in a series by my friend Jaymis Loveday called “Timelapse Lab”, and he’s already learning some things the hard way by experimentation (so we don’t have […]
If you’re considering making a pair of tire sandals, here’s a way to improve the comfort (and look) of the straps – Link. Related: Sandals from an old auto tire – Link.
Hans DIY binary clock from scrap – “All the parts for this clock came from scrap. The red LED’s making up the display came from an old video player. The high brightness green LED was also from an old video player (a different one). The TTL logic chips were from old computer boards, with the […]
Spark Fun has a handy (so it seems) PIC dev board that can be bootloaded and then shows up as an RS232 com port – “This is a spectacular little development board featuring the PIC18F2455. Based on the work of Brian Schmalz, the UBW is a small board with a command intrepreter for basic input […]
If you have a welder and some old box cutter blades you can make your own throwing stars, Saga writes “Ever wondered what to do with all of your old box knife blades? Well, instead of throwing them in the garbage can, you can throw them AT the garbage can. Project consists of welding six […]
