Unxmaal writes “Shadowstitch made this awesome car-DC-port-powered Halloween pumpkin – Wandered around the dollar store, bought a little plastic pumpkin and a cheap Discman car power supply. Wired up a few orange and yellow LEDs to oscillate inside the pumpkin. Voila. (nearly) Instant Halloween car decoration! Not bad for two dollars, some change, and a few spare LEDs”. Link. If you like this our 3rd volume has a lot of fun Halloween projects.
Something for our MAKE pals in Germany – Hans writes “This is a detailed step-by-step guide to: (1) checking your DVD drive’s coding, (2) finding, (3) downloading and (4) using a DVD code-switching utility (not to be confused with the more complicated process of making your drive code-free). Then just sit back and watch that maker Wallace and is Dog Gromit in German”… Link.
Extremely good HOW TO – After much frustration, I’ve finally set up my new mac mini to stream all my music to my work laptop. I say frustration, because whilst there is plenty of help out there, none of it in itself was complete enough to get me up and running. Some where too mac to mac, some to unix to mad, some unix to windows. Nothing really gave me the step by step, follow this and it will work guide. So, I present “The definitive guide to setting up iTunes streaming via the internet from a Mac running OSX to your PC running windows”. Link.
Do you have a messenger bag or backpack you use regularly? Do you have a laptop or other device with wifi in said bag? Wouldn’t it be cool to integrate wifi sniffing into your bag and not have yet another device on your keychain? Today we will show you how to take an existing inexpensive passive wifi detector and embed it into the strap of your messenger bag or backpack… Link.
A great kit will allow you to make something you probably wouldn’t make any other way. You are given all the parts, and then you assemble and finish. Musical instruments, with their exactness, fit into that category for me. Years ago I used this kit to make a simple dulcimer. It was easy to build, and beautiful to behold and hear. Link.
Mark writes “Well, after the “DIY iPod sock puppet” on MAKE:blog I thought it would be time for a “How to embroider a skull on a ipod sock”-how-to (btw, I was already busy with this embroidery-thing when I came across the brilliant ipod-sock-puppet)… Anyways, get yourself a ipod sock in true hax0rs-style! (but embroider what you like”. Link. Neat, that’s the logo I designed for Hack a day!
The purpose of this experiment is to maintain a stable plasmoid ( a ball lightning ) at one atmosphere in a spherical glass vessel. This experiment uses a kind of electronic trigger which is the GMR v1.0 ( Graphite Microwave Resonator ) placed in a microwave oven working at 2.45 GHz. A magnetron is compact, has a light weight ( compared to a HV transformer with the same output power ) and it is a high power device. It is able to produce a great amount of power in a small volume most particularly in a plasmoid. Link.
