From the MAKE Flickr pool: Check out Dave’s excellent prototyping box built from a child’s lap desk. I frequently work on projects in the living room in front of the TV while sitting on the couch soldering away hunched over a disarray of wires, parts, wires, speakers, cords, breadboards, and tools. Whenever I want to […]
Dhananjay Gadre is at it again, with a simple yet very useful Instructable for a LED illuminated eye loupe. I always want more light to see the objects I’m trying to magnify. I love how this niftly hack solves that problem!
Latest GadgetFreak is up over at Design News… Several of William Grill’s designs have included pulse-width modulator (PWM) circuits that control LEDs. But what about the control of line-powered lamps and fixtures? You can find several commercial PWM controllers, but build one yourself, save money and learn how to implement a microcontroller-based design. This circuit […]
This Eric Wilhelm’s treadmill desk. He’s the CEO of Instructables, and he walks while he works. I’d like to do something similar, but with a bike!
Randy Sarafan made this work table geared towards making DIY projects and documenting them: I set out to make a simple work table for my home studio so that I could have a surface upon which to work and document projects. I tried to keep the design as simple as possible as I only have […]
One my students, Danny Geiger, has a Sorenson videophone for communicating using sign language, and it’s designed to sit on top of your TV. The problem is that it doesn’t work work well with flat screens, so he made a laser-cut stand to support it. He provides the Illustrator file to make your own, which […]
Sunlight Labs, known for opening America’s government, had a problem when they recently moved facilities. Creating new keys for team members was becoming costly, so they figured out an alternative method of providing secure access using a WRT54GL, easily sourced components, and a trusty copy of Make: Electronics.
