DIY Green Machine…
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Pekar writes – “Adult sized Green Machine with a 26″ wheel, DIY studded ice tire, stretched fork, 175mm crankarms, and an adjustable seat made from a trashpicked childs car seat.” Link.
DIY Projects
HOW TO – Spray paint stencil for laptop
Here’s an Instructable on how to make a stencil, and custom spray paint your laptop. Link.
HOW TO – Make LED Throwies
Resistor writes – “Developed by the Graffiti Research Lab, LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together. Throw it up high and in quantity to impress your friends and city […]
Interactive sound LED sequence paper lantern
Nick writes “I have created a Digital Interactive Sound Installation, involving the generation of an array of visualised LED sequences, using ambient sounds and intentional directed sound.” More info, production blog and video here – Link.
Make an igloo…
What can you do with the record breaking snow in NYC? Make igloos. This tool looks pretty handy, it’s a cubic enclosure on a pole made for forming your igloo building blocks. Looks like you could make your own on the cheap version from PVC pretty easily too. [via] Link.
An iPod is an iPod is an iPod – until you hack it…
Modifications for everything from browsers to cellphones, an article by Hiawatha Bray in the Bostin globe – “We are all hackers now. At least, we can be. Americans have built our lives on a foundation of silicon and software, with computers in millions of homes and digital music players in millions of shirt pockets. They’re […]
The Nilno Laser Fab
Smouldering-Dog writes – “This is from my site. It describes construction of a simple microcontroller circuit that has user I/O, two seven segment LEDs, a buzzer and A/D converter. It was originally made to drive a CO2 laser but the new firmware can be installed on the microcontroller to program the board to perform other […]
