It’s that time of year again- Star Wars season. Expect to see a lot of cool DIY light sabers, life size Tie Fighers, DIY Ewok costumes and of course a 70″ x 30″ x 10″ Han Solo in Carbonite made from LEGOs. It took about 10,000 bricks, almost all dark gray, and about three months of on and off building. Link.
Neat scooter mod from Scoot Free or Die…How to install a great sounding stereo system on your scooter for less than $100. On my way to work one morning I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be great to have a stereo? I missed being able to listen to music while whizzing down the road. Link.
I think this might be my new MP3 player. This MP3 player uses cheap MMC for storage, powered by a single AAA battery running a 20 Mhz chip which can play files up to 256 kBps at 44.1 kHz. ID3 support, Nokia LCD screen, micro joystick, not bad at all. Full schematic & pcb, hex file available. I think encasing this in clear lucite would be rad. Link.
Two MAKE Extras published today– these are projects and updates that MAKE publishes online, for all to see, no dead trees. One is a recipe for a PC-based Digital Video Recorder (DVR) / media server / multi-console game machine that does everything except charge you every month. Link. The other Make Extra is an update to MAKE 01’s Magnetic Stripe Reader project, which shows you how to read the data off of stripes in any of the the three standard locations on a card. More power to you! Link.
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Here’s an interesting photo set from someone who works for production company that needed to make a crowd of people out of inflatable humanoids…”A production company I work for supplies them to movies, commercials etc for use as extras. This is a typical day of blowing them up, helping them get dressed, and finding them a good seat in the stadium“. Link.
