This looks like a fun kit for $64, make plasma balls, light up fluorescent tubes, make sparks… – “Solid state high voltage power supply is perfect for high voltage experiments, like Kirlian photography. The high voltage at the terminal won’t electrocute you, so its relatively safe, but it can burn you, so use caution. Can […]
Good camcorder hack from Dan @ Instructables – “We used the MIC jack of a camcorder to detect when the camcorder is on. We built a low-voltage solid-state relay to detect the MIC jack and automatically turn on and off a remote device at the same time as the camcorder. The solid-state relay is a […]
Mike Outmesguine’s Solar-powered Wi-Fi extender in the latest issue of Popular Science – “The promise of Wi-Fi is freedom–the ability to bring your laptop or PDA away from the anchor that is your desk and into your life. With most wireless routers, however, your life had better stop at around 300 feet, and forget about […]
Petercd writes – “Hands free Camber Gauge for cars made from angle iron, it can also be used to check castor too. Uses 2 small spirit levels and the read/write spindle and bearing from an old 250Mb hard drive for the pivoting plate and the spirit level.” – Link.
During Maker Faire, we had a RFID enabled flame shooting trampoline – the Maker, Mikey Sklar and I talked a bit about fire art and how electronics could be integrated – and that bring us to Plasma Pong, it’s a remake of pong, but it has plasma fluid, it’s really pretty to watch, I’m thinking […]
Here’s a video of a mini Gaussian gun in action – [via] – Link. We show you how to build your own in MAKE 01 – Gauss Rifle. A linear accelerator for studying high-energy physics costs around $5 billion. But you can make one for about 30 bucks with four strong magnets, a wooden ruler, […]
James shows you how to watch TV on a Macbook & a Slingbox – “I decided to make a project out of getting Slingbox setup today. Not knowing for sure if it would work on OSX, I got everything setup using only OSX and Parallels VM running Windows XP. This took about 2 hours to […]
