Toothpick engineering
Modern Mechanix has another good one from Popular Science 1940, incredibly structures made from toothpicks – Link.
Month: July 2006
MAKE 06 – Made on Earth (PDF)
A year ago we started sending MAKE PDFs through iTunes, we were hoping it would catch on and eventually become another way to distribute eBooks – we have some more stuff planned that should be out this week too, so – I’m hoping Makers out there can help test. I just put MAKE 06 – […]
Listen to the music on an Apple Newton
MAKE Flickr photo pool member MH2 writes – “Retrotronics can be such fun! This is my beloved MP 2100 in its new role as a one on one radio station. What you need to make this happen: the right kind of connectivity between your desktop and your Messagepad. Some storage space and the soft to […]
LCD to USB converter
Till writes – “LCD2USB is a open source/open hardware project. The goal of LCD2USB is to connect HD44780 based text LCD displays to various PCs via USB. LCD2USB was meant to be cheap and to be made of easily available parts. It is therefore based on the Atmel AVR Mega8 CPU and does not require […]
The ElectriClerk
The ElectriClerk is a fully functional 1988 Mac with a 1923 Underwood typewriter made by Andrew Leman… – “Built for a game of Cthulhu Lives! that has yet to be played, this piece was inspired by the retro-futuristic machines in the movie Brazil by Terry Gilliam. It was one of the most difficult and time-consuming […]
Low cost oscilloscope
Colin writes – “This project attempts to achieve the same functionality as a traditional oscilloscope, using a PIC microcontroller for data acquisition (including appropriate analogue circuitry) which transfers the data to the PC (possibly via RS232, USB or Parallel). A Microsoft Windows based software application will then display the waveform as it would appear on […]
Steam powered iMac
The Guardian has a write up about The Steam Powered Internet Machine exhibit (an iMac)… – “…Rob Tufnell is using an Apple Mac powered by the engine. For this is the Steam Powered Internet Machine: the latest deeply eccentric project from Turner-prizewinning artist Jeremy Deller and his collaborator Alan Kane. “We were thinking about something […]