DIY Backyard Theater
Our pal Mike at Popular Science’s h2.0 has a fun DIY Backyard Theate – Link and how to.
Home Entertainment
HOW TO – Make upside down glasses
If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to walk around upside down, The BBC’s Might Truck of Stuff has a PDF how-to on making your own upside down glasses – Thanks Gavin! Link. A pal IMed me and said “The Upside-down goggles thing is very interesting. Did you know there was an experimenter […]
Wind farms interfere with radar?
This is interesting, Wind farm construction out in Illinois is being halted, because the giant turbines might interfere with military radar – some folks don’t care for Wind Farms either, it can spoil their view of the ocean – [via] Link. In MAKE we show you how to make a Wind Powered Generator – With […]
Build a home ceiling-mounted kids gym and climbing wall
Creatrope has another fun project, a home kid’s gym – “This ceiling-mounted kids gym and climbing wall has seen a lot of use, and was easy to build once I figured out a strategy. It was around $125 worth of parts. It was inspired by a friend who has an even more elaborate one. It […]
HOW TO – Slingplayer on OSX
James shows you how to watch TV on a Macbook & a Slingbox – “I decided to make a project out of getting Slingbox setup today. Not knowing for sure if it would work on OSX, I got everything setup using only OSX and Parallels VM running Windows XP. This took about 2 hours to […]
Fixing a Durabrand PVS-1960 DVD player
While this might not be that useful for most folks, it’s always good to hear about someone fixing something as opposed to just tossing it… John sent in his how to on fixing a burned-up Durabrand PVS-1960 portable DVD player – Link.
Hacking wired remote control jacks into A/V equipment
John writes – “Here’s how to add a wired remote control (like Pioneer SR) jacks to VCRs and DVD players that don’t have any.” – Link.
