Windows tool to test out your electronics ideas – there are free and more advanced versions ($) – “VirtualBreadboard is an easy to simulation and modeling tool that can be used in place of a real breadboard for quickly performing experiments and testing out electronic and microcontroller powered ’embedded’ applications.” Link.
Looks like the first seasons of MacGyver are for sale on Google video for $1.99 a pop (Windows only) Link. On a related note, MAKE is pleased to announce Lee David Zlotoff (creator of MacGyver) will be doing a regular column in MAKE!
Ian writes – “This is a scratch-built MAME machine, based around my mum-in-laws old Pentium 3. Much more fun than Quake 4…There are a lot of MAME machines around, but very few cocktail-style cabinets – they seem to be mostly upright. I also haven’t seen any side-by-side two-player setups. The aluminium legs were sourced from […]
Ron DeCorte is a master watch maker and his site is filled with a ton of amazing close up photos of watches, the parts and all sorts of wonderful articles that actually make me want to wear a watch now. Some of the watch parts look like little mechanical creatures in a petri dish… [via] […]
Wired has a good article/how-to on making your own ring tones using our favorite audio tool, the open source Audacity. You’ll need – Cell phone with MP3 ring-tone support CD or MP3 of the song Audio-editing software that allows export to MP3. If you don’t already have this, Audacity is a good open-source program you […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Guero Loco writes – “I made this bike for Burning Man 2002 (oceanic theme). It consists of 7 strands of Lytec EL wire. The tentacles are threaded/tied to hardware cloth mesh that I attached inside the frame. The inverter box is located inside the larger box on the rack. The […]
James writes in about his new application – “Phiculator is a simple tool which, given any number, will calculate the corresponding number according to the golden ratio (phi). Useful to anyone wishing to create anything with divine proportions!” Link.
