A link to this was posted in the comments to yesterday’s cigar box guitar post, but I thought it was cool enough to get its own item. Be sure to check out the builder’s Flickr sets for his cookie tin banjo and his cigar box guitar. Lunch Box Guitar
Tiny “boom” box, built from a Lucky Strikes tin, an old MP3 player, an LM1877n-9 amp chip, and some garage sale speaks. It’s dubbed the “Mobile Oppression Unit.” Can it really be THAT loud? Or maybe it’s the likely lo-fidelity when cranked that makes it oppressive. Mobile Oppression Unit
James made another cool project. This time it’s a solar powered Theremin powered by the 1381 solar engine. You can buy a kit on his website, but he even included the schematics (at the bottom of the site) if you want to go ahead and make one from scratch. Thanks James! Read more about a […]
I had a chance to tinker around with the new kit available from Adafruit Industries the YBox2 Kit – DIY Set-top box – very fun, you can make your own stand alone Twitter viewer, weather widgets and more – and of course, fits inside an Altoids tin. The YBox2 is a DIY networked set-top box. […]
TriggerDog has been doing the projects in Making Things Talk, and came up with a great way to take the Arduino on the go: Small easy, and awfully unorigional. But, useful and free. Now I can bring my arduino with me in my laptop bag and goof around with it at lunch time at work […]
A fume extractor uses an activated carbon filter and fan to remove the smoke, and noxious fumes, created from soldering. The average price of a small hobby version is about $100, this one will run you about $10. This fume extractor will not be as effective as a larger one, but it is better than […]
Jean-Pierre Martineau made an instructable for making a pocket-sized watercolor set from an Altoids tin and some Fimo clay. Portable and practical!
