Whether you’re having a groundbreaking celebration for the construction of your new subterranean evil lair, or throwing a 5 year-old a birthday party, an erupting volcano cake is always the perfect pastry choice. Here’s how to make one… Link.
This is an intermediate to advanced project for someone who wants to make cool sounds. It makes a great first synth project but is interesting enough for the seasoned synth person too. When I first designed the synth I made some very lame oscillators for it and I wasn’t happy with them so I put the same basic ramp oscillators that are in my big synth and I’m glad I did. Link.
Here’s a really detailed site documenting the construction of a Lego PC, start to finish. My favorite part about this is that all the switches and lights are Lego based…Link.
Maker Don Brown writes “I have a hobby of creating arcade machines using computers and MAME. This is a budget arcade cabinet. Instead of a computer running the MAME software, the gaming is provided by a Namco TV Games 5-in-1 game controller, hacked for real arcade controls. So, instead of spending a few hundred on a computer, the controller is $20. Also, inside is a 14″ TV, saving money there too. The Penny Arcade plays Pacman, Galaxian, RallyX, DigDug, and Bosconian”. Link.
Cameron Mallory write “I work. I bike. I bike to work. The problem is, I don’t have a lot of room to have the bike just sit against the wall of my cubicle. So I took it upon myself to come up with an alternate solution. As such, I present the Cubicle Wall Bike Rack. The solution is pretty straight-forward and is really easy to make. Here is what I did”… Link.
One day, my co-worker Yoshi mentioned that Alton Brown of Good Eats had discussed making gyros. I love Alton Brown and if he said it could be done, then I could do it. Yoshi mentioned that his plan kinda sucked because it wasn’t cooked by the traditional method of a rotisserie. At that point I decided to build my own gyro cooker. Link. Bonus links: Making a smoker from a trash can and Cooking a turkey in a trash can smoker.
The idea here it to be able to construct a crystal radio with parts fabricated right at home. This can get complicated in some areas of the radio as it is difficult to get some items needed. Also some parts of the radio are very complicated and detailed. We will attempt to simplify the parts as much as possible so we can “homebrew” or make them at home (as much as possible). Link.
