Month: September 2007

HOWTO – beat carnival games

HOWTO – beat carnival games

I decided to brave the manure, mullets and *-on-a-stick this weekend and swung by the state fair. It seems like every time I go there are a couple people walking around all day with enormous stuffed animals, presumably won through some feat of basketball tossing or ring flinging. Enormous. Impossible to win enormous. Paid carnival […]

More mint-tin amp action

More mint-tin amp action

Michael O’Brien, a.k.a. Turbotron, has posted pics of this project to the MAKE Flickr Pool. It’s a mint-tin amp based on the LM386 chip, the same op-amp chip used in the MAKE Mousey the Junkbot and Cracker Box Amp projects. The case is an Altoids box, painted gloss black enamel, the grill is from a […]

USB POV SMD kit

USB POV SMD kit

This is cool, a USB surface mount version of the POV kit we carry here @ MAKE…. ohararp writes – Have you ever seen a kit developed solely for learning how to assemble an electronic circuit of only SMT parts? Did it have BLUE LEDs? I haven’t seen one with either! Expect to see all […]

Aurigid Meteor shower

Aurigid Meteor shower

The Aurigid Meteor shower happen 9/1 (today)… around 4am for the folks on the west coast, National Geographic has all the details… A meteor shower on Saturday morning will present a rare greeting from the distant Oort cloud located at the far edges of our solar system. The two-hour Aurigid meteor shower is predicted to […]