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One of our MAKE readers sent in this potato powered battery, the site is down now, but there is a mirror – “I built a potato battery out of 500 pounds of potatoes. It powered a small sound system. I installed the battery and sound system in the back of a U-Haul truck and drove […]
David writes – “Saw the satellite dish gazibo and thought you’d like my treehouse with dish roof. We built this treehouse entirely from recycled materials, including the 10 foot diameter fibreglass dish as a dome roof. The cool, and unexpected, benefit of this design is that the bed is below the dish, and our heads […]
Robotdreams writes – Filip Verhaeghe, the publisher of the bnxt.com weblog, just posted a detailed article including photos and videos that documents how the popular GUPI, robot guinea pig was originally developed. Filip was one of the key developers on the project, and explains a lot of the design trade-offs and issues they encountered. He’s […]
BigCoCo writes – “I followed the instructions given by wrique in this instructable using ferns and red onions. We also tried using iris petals, carrots, parsley, Japanese Kerria, Mahonia, and ice plants.” – Link. Related: HOW TO – Make Ukrainian Easter Eggs – Link. HOW TO – Easter Eggs dyed with onion skins – Link. […]
Marcus writes – “We inherited a left-over “big ugly dish” and it was too cool to toss, but too ugly to keep. So we repurposed it.” – Link.
Eric over on Instructables writes – “One of the things that we’re very really excited about for Instructables is the concept of a derivative project — a project that uses another project as a stepping stone for further refinement, improvement, or application to a totally different problem. The community of DIYers that we’re all a […]
Colin writes – “Linux Infrared Remote Control (LIRC) allows you to use inexpensive hardware to control your Linux PC with a TV remote control. Why would you want to control your PC with a TV remote control? A number of reasons are possible, the most obvious being MythTV, which I wrote about earlier for LJ.com. […]
