Homeade monorail for puppies
James Horecka built a monorail for puppies, it’s like pouring sugar in your eyeballs, it’s that cute. [via] Link. In MAKE volume 01, Made on Earth, we have the people version if you’re thinking of building one yourself.
DIY Projects
Rubberband gun, LEGO lamp and Axim hack…
Jonny5rd’s sent us word of things he has made and took photos of – “Rubberband Gun: I wanted a semi-automatic rubberband gun, i had a pizza box, two nails, and copious amounts of hot glue. This is what came of it. And yes, that is a laser pointer. Levitating Lego Lamp: This was origionally one […]
HOW TO – Build a practical HTPC
Eliot on Engadget has a sub-ish $1,000 HTPC how-to, he writes “We’ve seen a lot of home theater PCs lately and being in need of a new workstation, we decide to build one of our own. We started planning by looking around to see what others had done. It would be fun to own a […]
HOW TO – Measure temperature with the Dallas Maxim DS1820 sensor
Refik writes – “Sometimes we have a need to measure the temperature of a room, of an object or just maybe a terrarium; so it never gets too hot or too cold for your hamster and it warns the system to turn on a cold or hot fan (ok just a bit Sci-Fi). A DIY […]
NES Alarm Clock
Clever NES Alarm clock mod, the Maker, Aaron writes – “So I built a funky alarm clock out of an old Nintendo console. Why? Because I was at Value Village with my girlfriend and my sister, and while they were browsing through miles of clothing the only thing of interest I could find were two […]
HOW TO – Convert a physcial computer to a virtual machine
Lindsey writes “I recently got a new replacement laptop for work. I had a lot of stuff on the old laptop after 2+ years of use and so I didn’t want to have to rush myself in remembering everything in one or two passes before formatting it to send back to the office. There are […]
Make your own desert dome…
Rick sent us in another good resource for building your own desert dome, he’s using this site to build a 36 foot exhibition room. Link.
