Nixie Build – The case
MAKE Flickr photo pool member ThePhoton is still hard at work on the Nixie clock, here is the latest, the case – Link. Bonus, here’s a video of it in action – Link (Divx).
Technology
Rustic PC
ZapWizard writes – “I wanted to make a PC with a rustic look. It needed to look good in the living room without screaming “I’m a PC!” or looking like a disco jukebox full of lights. I had lots of wood left over from the Redwood PC mod, it is very pretty wood and a […]
Mad scientist lamp
Simon writes – “Inspired by several other mad scientist lamps featured in the Make blog previously I made my own version using an old analogue meter and a vernier dial as a dimmer control. There isn’t a huge amount of detail on the site I am afraid since these things seem to follow a ‘make […]
DIY Shake flashlight
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Csc934 and his students deconstructed and then made their own self powered “shake” flashlights – Link.
Low cost ECG Tester
EWH writes – “In the developing world, engineers do not have adequate resources to properly repair medical equipment. The development of a low cost electrocardiogram (ECG) tester would greatly enhance an engineer’s ability to debug problems in current ECG machines. This project seeks to create a low cost alternative to current ECG simulators that, despite […]
$100 Radiation visualizer
Jared writes – I started this project with more of an idea of creating a system that would visualize Cherenkov radiation via webcam utilizing a Gamma radiation source and heavy water in some heavy lead shielding to produce the tell tale bursts of blue light. Perhaps hook it up to the LCD window kit system […]
Rubik’s Cube solving robot
Wow, this is a pretty intense Rubik’s Cube solving robot, you can see it “think” and then handily solve the cube – Link.