Geek blanket
Here’s one more craft project made from old techy shirts from Uninorth13 – “Patchwork, a geek blanket. A pile of waaaay too old Apple and other t-shirts to wear as t-shirts. They suffered a metamorphosis, and became a blanket. “ – Link.
Month: August 2006
Homemade Apple Pro soap holder, and Apple wash mitten
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Uninorth13 made a soap holder from an Apple pro mouse and a wash mitten woven from an Apple store plastic bag – Link.
DIY Magnetic stir plate
George writes – “Here is a DIY magnetic stir plate. Although it was made to stir yeast for beer brewing, it could work quite well in a lab. This reminded me of the DIY rotary evaporator from a while back…” – Link.
Miniature tape recorder collection
Check out Roland Schellin’s incredible miniature tape recorder collection from 50s/60s – [via] – Link (German) & translated.
HOW TO – Make a touch-screen bar-code scanning system
Max writes “Do you need a Bar-code scanner for your app? Today we will try to use a Metrologic Voyager Bar-code scanner to scan a coke bottle, Jagermeister bottle, CT1721 Start Kit Bard code label, and yes, UPS tracking number.” – Link.
DIY Softbox
MrMonster shows you how to make a sub-$40 photography “softbox” for diffusing light – Link.
LED lighting install on a Scion tC
Phil writes – “Here’s a multi-step pictorial how-to on installing lights under your car for those “fast and furious” nights.” – Link.