Every freaking way to charge an iPod
Ted has a round up of just about all the ways of charging an iPod and/or making a DIY battery pack – Link.
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LED Light pick and LED car messages
Here a couple LED products that are likely good for getting ideas on making DIY versions — This guitar pick lights up when you use it – [via] – Link. LED messaging system to communicate with other drives, it has moods, kinda funny – [via] – Link.
HOW TO – Measure Salt level in your water softener
Cocoontech writes “This How-To will show you how you can use a Maxbotix Ultrasonic Sensor to measure the salt level in your water softener. It also explains how to use this data in a home automation environment with touch screens.” – Link.
R2SRV case mod
Bruce “CrazyBillyBob” Maley’s R2D2 case mod – “Idea/Inspiration: Previously built an ATM Machine server mod and wanted to do something bigger and better this time around. Kicked around some ideas one day and came up with the R2D2 design.” [via] – Link.
Stereo microphone in a mint tin
Francisco writes “After searching for a suitable mic to record band practice with my LINE IN only (no mic input) minidisc, I decided to build one myself. The link shows photos of the finished project.” – Link.
Photovore light seeking robot
Drinkumbrella writes “A “herbie” style LM386 based light-seeking robot, with two reversing switches. The front switch is a bump switch. The second switch is a foot in front that makes it back up when it tries to drive off the table. “ – Link & video. You can build this bot with MAKE 06 – […]
50W LED acrylic cube light
Alex writes “Neo^3 is a 1’x1’x1′ clear acrylic cube jammed with 50W of colored LED lighting. I decided the kitchen in my new apartment was kinda drab, so I built this in an afternoon to light it up a bit. My inner dork screamed, “You can’t stop there!”, and so I went on to build […]