DIY Polarimeter
Mark shows how to make a DIY polarimeter for observing and photographing stress patterns in transparent plastic – Link. Related: Automated Photoelasticity – Link.
Craft & Design
From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
SNES/NES gamepad to USB adapter
Raph writes – “I have used the NES/SNES controller on parallel port mod for years, but since parallel ports have become quite uncommon, I decided to design my own SNES/NES to USB adapter. The solution is completely open source so anyone with the right skills and equipment can build one.” – Link.
MP3 headphones
With all the sub-$20 MP3 players out there, you can make your own MP3 player headphones with everything built in, MAKE Flickr photo pool member Csc934 writes – “Stephen needed a better way to listen to music on his run. There are no cables to tangle and it runs on a single AA battery. The […]
HOW TO – DVR with automatic commercial skip
Here’s a handy Instructable on making an auto-commerical skipping DVR using SageTV, Vielmetter writes – “I hate commercials…especially the repetative ones on my favorite shows like Law & Order and the Jon Stewart show. I’ve spent a long time customizing my DVR, but I’ve finally got it to automatically skipp any and all commercials on […]
Scan barcodes with your web cam
I’ve always liked Delicious Library for the Mac (you can scan in any book, movie, music, or video game, the application grabs the data, and puts it on your “shelf) – but, Barcodepedia (cross platform) is all web based, so – you could potentially have online communities of folks sharing/trading etc. Might also be an […]
HOW TO – Build your own CNC machine (Part 2)
Will’s part 2 of building your own CNC machine – Link. Previous: Part I – Link.
Put put boats
Csc934 writes – “The put put boat is a steam powered boat. In this use, they are hand made from either baking pan aluminum or flashing. The boiler is made by cutting and flattening a soda can, folding it, then epoxying in two straws.” [via] – Link.