Month: May 2006

New rechargeable AA/AAA Batteries

New rechargeable AA/AAA Batteries

We go through a lot of batteries with our projects and gear here at MAKE, luckily, rechargeable batteries are getting really good, better each year. Extremetech has a bit about the new ones from Duracell, they’re pretty close to Alkalines – “The new NiMH batteries will include 2,650 mAh AA cells and 1,000 mAH cells, […]

LEGO Flash drive

LEGO Flash drive

Stickman has a pretty spiffy homemade LEGO flash drive – “It uses a 128MB Dick Smith electronics USB flash drive. The casing of the DSE drive was easy to remove and from there it was a matter of resizing the circuit board (it was slightly too large to fit inside a 2×4 Lego brick) by […]

Build a sandbox toy backhoe

Build a sandbox toy backhoe

Plans from 1965 for making a kid sized earth mover – “These plans are for a kid’s sandbox backhoe plans. Half-pint sidewalk superintendents will go ape for this boy-size, rugged, easy-to-build digger. A healthy lad can do wonderful things with a little loose dirt but a boy with his own backhoe is an earth-moving hero. […]