HOW TO – Make gameshow-style hand buzzers
Nick writes – “Here’s a a small tutorial for fabricating gameshow-style hand buzzers (in this case, used for the PC game “You Dont Know Jack”, played on an emulated arcade cabinet).” – Link.
Technology
Building an Electric Kiln
M2Crafts writes – “This set of pages diarizes the construction of my kiln. I fire to cone 6 oxydation and use an electric kiln to do so. The kiln I’ve used till now is a very old cone 1 Olympic, it is also very small, around 3 cubic feet. It definitely needs to be replaced, […]
iBook modifications
Since Apple released new Macbooks you can now pick up the old iBooks for pretty cheap, here are some mods – appearance, hard drive replacement & overclocking and screen/hinge repair. Thanks Silas! – Link.
The LED museum
Csc934 sent in the LED museum, it’s a bit dfficult to navigate the site, but it has a ton of LED history – “The LED. You may not have heard of it, but you’ve seen it. Light Emitting Diode. That’s what scientists & techies call them. They’ve been around for years, and you probably take […]
Broadcast your podcast
Broadcast your podcast shows you how to make your own FM transmitter to broadcast your own music / audio show – “BYP offers podcasters the chance to transmit their podcasts on FM. BYP units are handmade FM transmitters made by BYP following the circuit design of micro radio pioneer Tetsuo Kogawa. By connecting a BYP […]
3D Video microscope
Gerald writes – “Since I saw my first 3D movie, “It Came From Outer Space”, in 1953 I’ve been interested in making my own 3D movies. I got my first 3D camera in 1954, a Bell and Howell Three Dimension Company Colorist, which I still have. I was interested in taking 3D pictures through a […]
HOW TO – Music sensitive blinking LEDs for your PC
Pastelero writes – “Listening to music on my pc (proudly using WINAMP), I was wondering how would be to have some leds blinking with the sound that came out from the P2 connector, so I decided to make a simple circuit to do that. It worked pretty fine, so I decided to write a HowTo […]