DIY Projects

Photovore light seeking robot

Photovore light seeking robot

Drinkumbrella writes “A “herbie” style LM386 based light-seeking robot, with two reversing switches. The front switch is a bump switch. The second switch is a foot in front that makes it back up when it tries to drive off the table. “ – Link & video. You can build this bot with MAKE 06 – […]

50W LED acrylic cube light

Alex writes “Neo^3 is a 1’x1’x1′ clear acrylic cube jammed with 50W of colored LED lighting. I decided the kitchen in my new apartment was kinda drab, so I built this in an afternoon to light it up a bit. My inner dork screamed, “You can’t stop there!”, and so I went on to build […]

TV-Filter

TV-Filter

Aram writes “TV-Filter allows you to downsample an ongoing TV signal to 6 by 8 pixels in real-time. A translucent projection screen is mounted on a 5 cm deep cardboard grid. The color and intensity of each pixel is determined by the corresponding part of the TV screen on the backside. The different color information […]

DIY Rainstick

DIY Rainstick

Fibra has -another- neat project, this one is for building a DIY rainstick – “Rainstick originally comes form South American indians. They used to fill sun dried hollow cactus with small rocks, and stick its pins around cactus all the way down in form of a spiral. For homebuilt DIY rainstick you can use any […]

Gas Powered Blender

Gas Powered Blender

Phinch writes “So you’d like to have a nice blended margarita out in the middle of nowhere? So did I. All you need is gas trimmer and a blender to make blended drinks in remote areas. Of course, I’m still working on how to make ice without electricity.” – Link.

Cooking… with your car

Cooking… with your car

Trebuchet03 writes “Using some waste heat in from your engine bay to cook a meal on your way home. After I showed this to a few people, I found out that there is a book called “Manifold Destiny” on this very subject. I have not read it yet, but I’m told that there are quite […]