Make a wafer-thin, transparent keyboard
Reversial writes – “After taking an ancient “Microsoft Internet Keyboard” apart, turns out it’s a rather simple mod to convert it to a wafer-thin, transparent beast.” – Link.
Month: August 2006
EL wire deep-sea fangly fish
Rob writes – “I made an elwire angler fish for my sister for her birthday. Some inspirations were the big neon angler fish sign in Akihabara, an episode of Strongbad emails, and another elwire angler fish on the Cool Neon site.” – Link. Related: Make a Glowing, Wearable, EL-Wire, Blinky Light – Link. EL wire […]
Veggie orchestra
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra is a nine piece orchestra with instruments made from vegetables – like saxophones made from a cucumber and a double bass made from a pumpkin – [via] – Link. More: Vienna Vegetable Orchestra – Link.
LEGO Guitar
Add this to the increasing number of things that should and should not be made from LEGO, a LEGO guitar – Link. More: Our LEGO archives – Link.
Homemade matchbox pinhole camera
Udijw writes – “My first couple of 35mm pinhole cameras attempted to be panoramic, wide angle jobbies but this time I thought it would be nice to get back to the classic square format. Here’s my latest contraption which uses 35mm film to provide square images of 24 x 24mm. Using this size means that […]
HOW TO – Build a wireless FM microphone
Here’s how to build a wireless FM microphone from “Popular Electronics May 1965” – Link.
SRL San Jose 2006 Show (photos)
Incredible photos from The Survival Research Labs show in San Jose – taken by Scott Beale (Laughing Squid) Link. Congrats to the entire SRL team! More: In MAKE volume 07 we profile Mark Pauline. For nearly three decades, Survival Research Laboratories has redirected the technology of industry, science, and the military to create the most […]