There is still a little bit of weekend left to fit in a project! In this week’s MAKE Video Podcast Weekend Project, Bre teaches how to make a pinhole camera, turn your bathroom into a darkroom and make contact prints. Make sure to read the instructions for this post if you’re interested in shooting some […]
Ok Makers, we feature a lot of Altoids tin projects here on MAKE – and now you have a chance to win an unreleased new product from Altoids, if you happen to win, we’d like to do a project with the tin after the mints are consumed, heck we’ll auction the project off and give […]
Good (re)use of an old Palm keyboard, Jacksonharbor writes – “Palm Keyboards for the m100, III and VII models of the Palm PDA are available on the surplus market for around $20 postpaid. These keyboards are unusual in that they fold up into a compact box about the size of two Altoids tins. The Palm […]
Dirkus writes – “This altoids tin can help you replace an Xbox’s hard drive without any pesky modifications to the Xbox. It reads the EEPROM off in a fraction of a second, so you can feed it to whatever Xbox drive restoring/locking program you’re using and drop a new drive in the console and get […]
Francisco writes “After searching for a suitable mic to record band practice with my LINE IN only (no mic input) minidisc, I decided to build one myself. The link shows photos of the finished project.” – Link.
Girl on the Rocks has a made some great use out of those old Altoid tins, by covering them in felt! WE like the mini TV dinner look going on here. She uses them as a sewing kit and small storage tins where they are the “perfect size for a chapstick and maybe even a […]
Imarunner2 writes – “Build this portable antenna mast for use in temporary or emergency communications. Possible applications include setting up temporary wifi for an event or as part of a portable emergency communications station for Amatuer Radio Emergency Services (ARES).” – Link.
