HOW TO – Turn a Rice Bag into a Purse
Eliza of everything @ once has a great post on how she created a custom purse for herself out of a used rice burlap bag. I love the added sequins to the front! Link.
Month: January 2007
YouTube Kaleidoscope
After rolling out his many excellent Coverpop visualizations (but before getting tapped by Yahoo! to work on similar cool stuff for them), Flickr Hacks coauthor Jim Bumgardner created this amazingly fun kaleidoscope viewer for YouTube videos. Just plug in any YouTube URL (or choose one of the nine preset movies provided by Jim) to return […]
Turn your $60 router into a $600 router
Adam says, Of all the great DIY projects at this year’s Maker Faire, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old $60 router into a powerful, highly configurable $600 router. The router has an interesting history, but all you really need to know is that the special sauce lies in […]
See Better with Pinhole Eyes
Bre Pettis, Make: Blog‘s resident Media Maker, adds this photo and description to the Hacks Flickr pool: If you wear glasses like me, you’ll forget them at some point or you won’t have them on and you’ll need to read a street sign. The magic of a pinhole can help. By looking through the hole […]
MAKE @ Macworld & Apple store THIS WEEK!
Some folks from MAKE will be at Macworld & the Apple store this week, stop by and say hi — Apple store – San Francisco: Mark Frauenfelder, Rule The Web Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 from 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Link & map. MacWorld – O’Reilly – Booth S2112, Phillip Torrone, Podcasting Thursday – January […]
2,500 LED pong table
One of my favorite makers waldemeyer.com sent in his pong table! “I saw all the ping pong tables on the make blog and I thought my Pong Table would fit in there, too. It is made of Corian, has about 2500 LEDs embedded, run by a couple of PIC microcontrollers with two hidden track pads […]
Budget photographic lighting “tent” – in a bucket
Focusfinder shows you how to make a light tent, using a bucket… “Improve your table-top photography dramatically, at almost no cost, by modifying a cheap, readily available plastic bucket. You can improve your own photos of small items quickly and easily, using exactly the same principles as professional photographers, but you don’t have to invest […]