How-To: Make your own Lindsey Adelman chandelier
Brooklyn-based lighting designer Lindsey Adelman has published a great tutorial on the construction of this cool spidery brass light fixture from various commercial bits ‘n’ pieces. [via Readymade]
DIY Projects
Electronic excuse generator has got you covered
Alex’s Emergency Excuse Generator (aka ‘EEG”) uses custom code fed with random input to determine word choice, resulting in convenient untruths so lifelike – you’ll swear it actually happened! … maybe the device uses the immense computational power and the 8K words program memory of a PIC16F690 microcontroller to demodulate an advanced lexico-semantical matrix and […]
Bill Gurstelle’s article on DIY in The Atlantic
MAKE contributor Bill Gurstelle has an awesome article in the latest issue of The Atlantic about DIY, Arduino and art: For a few dollars, creative and motivated individuals–rather than just corporations or institutions–can make highly intelligent tools, perfectly customized for a particular need. …large artistic installations used to require multiple programmers and engineers. But now […]
DIY steadicam with cheap/easy gimbal
Tho Bui writes: I’ve been toying with homemade steadicams lately. The gimbal joint usually gives people a fit. The roundness of the acorn nut fits into the indentation of the opposite screw/nut and freely rotates. More: DIY steadicam, version five
Bluetooth Ericofon
SQNewton didn’t just crack open a bluetooth headset and cram it into a cool retro handset casing; he developed his own hardware to produce a fully-functional, self-contained phone that uses the Ericofon’s original rotary dial, gives dial and busy tones, mimics the original Ericofon ringer, and has voice-recognition dialing to top it off. [via Hack a Day]
How-To: Laser tripwire with webcam + twitter
Action_owl (awes name!) set up a versatile intrusion detection system using Arduino + Processing – This instructable will show you how to construct a laser tripwire that can twitter and grab an image from a webcam, as well as execute any command you can put in a bash script. This instructable is actually quite simple and is […]
DIY powder coating oven
Flickr user j_tenkely wanted to do his own powder coating, so he bought a commercial powder-gun and built a custom oven in his garage. He says, “the entire oven cost about $250, but when it runs about $150 to do a bike frame & fork, it’s easy to break-even.”
