HOWTO – Build Your Own RC Helicopter
Silas writes, “This guy made his own electric powered RC helicopter. Lots of info, pics, and videos!!” Link.
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Homemade LED “throwies” as caravan car markers
Andi on the Parent hacks blog has a pretty clever use for LED throwies – “…these would be great to stick to everyone’s cars for group road trips. When I was a Girl Scout, and then later when I was manager of the soccer team, we often took trips with multiple cars in a caravan. […]
Homebrew touch probe for 3D scanning
Graham writes – “This was supposed to be my first useful milling project. It is based on conceptual drawings that can be found in the files section of the CCED yahoo group, these in turn where based on the Renishaw patent. Touch probes can be used for two operations. One is to find edges and […]
PowerGlove mouse mod continued
Leading writes – “Austin Weber took it upon himself to make his own PowerGlove Mouse based on my previous design. In addition to cleaning up all the wires and using smaller circuitry components he also has a killer demo of the glove with Unreal Tournament. He mapped the in game controls so that his thumb […]
HOW TO – Make a dual iPod charger
Joe writes – “I have both an iPod and an iShuffle, I don’t want to have to bring a laptop along on a trip to just to charge them. This will charge an iShuffle or an iPod with firewire connector.” – Link.
LED Tubes
Today is a good day to be a LED, MAKE Flickr photo pool member Funnypolynomial writes – “I’ve had a thing for tubes (aka valves) since I was a kid. They made me thing of mini futuristic alien cities under a dome. I got some on ebay and mounted them on a plinth to make […]
Grow your own LED Bonsai tree
Will writes – “I noticed your post about making a LED Tree, and thought you should see this site. He made a little potted plant with 1152 LED’s in the form of flowers, with the wires twisted together to make it look like a bonsai tree. It’s really beautiful, and totally absurd at the same […]