HOW TO – Put your R/C car under computer control
Prank’s Instructable on how to take any R/C car and control it with your computer – Link.
DIY Projects
DIY Solar Chimney & HVAC
FrankG writes with his DIY HVAC for small greenhouse (part 2) assembled from scavanged parts – Link. Previous: Solar chimney project – Link.
Defiant Cycle Scooter-Kit
Steve writes “Using a defiant frame, and Harley-Davidson running gear, you can build your own mega-scooter. Just add sheetmetal.” – Kit & build in progress.
Build your own telescope
The Exploratorium has a simple how to on making a telescope using reading glasses – “You’re about to make a telescope. One lens of the reading glasses will serve as the objective lens of the telescope–the lens that gathers light from stars or other objects. The magnifying glass will be the eyepiece. This telescope won’t […]
HOW TO – Salvage 9V battery clips from dead batteries
Westfw writes – “You can use the top of an old 9V battery as a 9V battery clip for assorted electronics projects. Here’s how to make a nice wire-lead version…” – Link.
Breath of Fire – alcohol breathalyzer and a flame thrower
A MAKE reader sent this in, lots of alcohol breathalyzer projects seem to be in the works lately, here’s how to make an alcohol breathalyzer and a flame thrower – “The Breath of Fire is the marriage of an alcohol breathalyzer and a flame thrower. A Basic Stamp takes a reading from a alcohol sensor […]
HOW TO – Design, build, and configure a (low-cost!) backup/server monster
Sam writes – “I recently built a Linux-based backup server and I documented the process. We built a full-fledged server, installed Fedora Core 4 (not 5! waaaay to bleeding-edge), setup the server to serve the 4 backup hard drives (broken-up into 2 RAIDO arrays) through FTP (the protocol our software uses), and as a bonus […]