Rybitski took a broken car stereo and (re)made a home version that uses a computer monitor that lights up, he writes – “My friend, Jeremy came to me with a car stereo and an idea. He wanted to use the car stereo as a normal stereo because motorized faceplate no longer worked. We settled on […]
EiED’s William Wong has an extremely thorough article on building a multimedia home control set up, he writes – “Home multimedia centers are popping up at stores but most are relatively closed boxes or are full blown PCs. Of course, engineers like myself love to get under the hood so this project is about building […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Tuesdays With Maury fixed a broken DVD player instead of tossing it, nice work – “The disc tray on my Lite-on 5005 DVD recorder stopped ejecting disks. I took the case apart. Unscrewed the metal housing around the DVD drive. Tossed it. I then measured where the manual eject button […]
You can buy a TiVo, a TiVo-like video recorder, or a Microsoft Media center PC, but who knows how long you’ll be able to keep/record all your shows – so – I usually try and get folks to take MythTV for a swing, an open source alternative. That said, sometimes setting up a Linux box […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Cmpalmer writes – “Our bedroom TV went out a few months ago and the bedroom wasn’t laid out well to use our video projector, so I built a rear projection TV mounted to the foot of our four poster bed…” – Photos & Link.
What a great way to display a console, Cole @ Deviantart writes – “This is a little piece I did last semester for a Woodworking elective. The assignment was to build a table or reliquary, and I had had the idea of doing something to hold a Gamecube for a while. The concept is sort […]
Here’s how to make a Wi-Fi waveguide antenna from a foil-lined Tetra-Brik soup box – Link.
