Mind-controlled theremin
Robert Schneider modified a Mindflex EEG toy to become the Teletron, a theremin that plays a Moog analog synth via thought control. The second video shows how to do it. [Via Pitchfork, thanks Jeremy!]
Hacks
Control your camera flash with a TV remote
Like using off-camera flash units for your photography, but tired of having to walk over to them to adjust the flash power?
DIY rudder pedals on the cheap
MAKE subscriber James Jamison writes in to share his DIY rudder pedals.
Flash your computer BIOS with Openbiosprog-spi
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool: If you’ve ever bricked the BIOS on your PC, then you might appreciate the Openbiosprog-spi project by Uwe Hermann. It is designed to be able to reprogram any flash memory that uses the serial peripheral interconnect bus (SPI), which could come in handy if you need to restore a […]
Antique clocks turned into speaker cases
Derek Bell didn’t want to have tacky black consumer electronics cases in his living room, so he gutted a couple of satellite speakers and used antique clocks as enclosures. The subs are hidden in the gilt below the speakers. A very elegant solution!
Bowling ball + PanaVise = DIY engraver’s ball
Xavier of My Heap put together this delightful homebrew engraver’s vise by attaching a PanaVise to a bowling ball that pivots in a PVC pipe coupling. No word on how well it works, but ya gotta give it up for that kind of ingenuity. More: PanaVise crank mod Lie-Nielsen chain-drive shoulder vise World’s most beautiful […]
Updating a classic View-Master toy
Although he had fond memories of his View-Master toy, Tuttle of the Nashville, TN hackerspace, Hacker Consortium, was frustrated by it’s antiquated film-based media.
