Pencil Bag Tutorial
Moki of The Monkey Basket shows you how to sew up a pencil bag that can hold just about anything in them. Link.
Month: December 2007
Hacked Bop-it tambourine
Some classmates (Byron Lahey and Ryan Brotman) and I just finished up a project where we used wireless handheld electronic devices to control Max/MSP instruments. It’s called sGloTaT (sensor Glow-object Trumpet and Tambourine): The sGloTaT sonic environment allows participants to originate sound by moving physical objects. It encourages novice users to play by naturally gesturing […]
HOW TO – Make a pack flat plywood desk
Drocko writes – Recently I was in the market for a new desk. I wanted to make a desk that was able to be disassembled and packed flat, made from few and easily obtainable supplies with simple tools. The desk can be created from the following supplies: 1 4’x8’x3/4″ A-1 plywood sheet 2 4′ 3/8″ […]
Hacking the Western Digital MyBook World Edition
Makefan writes – This page provides information on how to hack your MyBook World Edition, so as you can improve performance and add new features. MyBook is powered by ARM9 microprocessor, it has 32MB of SDRAM and boots from internal hard drive. The system partition has 2.8GB (only 260 MB is occupied). This means that […]
Pipe robot doesn’t smoke a pipe
This robot, designed by Jeff Terrell consists of dense PVC plastic piping for the body, its head moves 180 degrees left and right, and a strip of red LEDs under his mouth light up when it is speaking. The bot also uses a head mounted video camera and tracking software to integrate computer vision. We […]
Phone line controller
Trax writes – It might be “yet another” «device» controller that operates over phone-line, but this one works for sure :) The task was to build a device that connects to the phone line and has a relay as an output switch. It should also sense if the connected «consumer» is turned-on or off and […]
MCU for desktop plasma globe
A German hacker dusts off his plasma globe from the ’80s and hooks it up to an ATMega8 MCU and serial PC interface so that he can tune it. Large plasma Globe Tuning – [via] Link Build site (in German) – Link