Will has a good starter on making your own CNC machine – “Ready for some hard core gadget creation? If you thought your dremel tool was handy before, in today’s How-To we’ll start building our own CNC machine. Aside from the geek factor, it can be handy for making things like PC boards without chemicals […]
Here’s our next TV-B-Gone mod, bam! “This TV-B-Gone uses a 9V battery to send its signal through a matrix of 20 IR LEDS. This extends the working range of the device to about 90ft (line of sight). Using this in a regular sized room you are pretty much guaranteed to kill the TV no matter […]
A Maker in the forums was looking to make a LED display that can read RSS feeds, here’s a start – Atharsia writes – “Check out [this site] for a circuit that can be used to drive a matrix of LED’s that can be driven to display alphanumeric characters. You should be able to just […]
There’s a Starbucks in Washington that has a bicycle powered blender and the customers make their own drinks or something (I couldn’t find any information on why they’re doing this or which one in WA, but there was a video on Keith Obermann last night). So, here are some resources around the web on bike […]
Here’s a simple and easy clamp camera mount you can make – Link.
Jared writes – I started this project with more of an idea of creating a system that would visualize Cherenkov radiation via webcam utilizing a Gamma radiation source and heavy water in some heavy lead shielding to produce the tell tale bursts of blue light. Perhaps hook it up to the LCD window kit system […]
Ok Makers, O’Reilly is having a Photoshop cook-off contest, I’m pretty sure one of our MAKE readers could easily win it, you don’t need to buy anything, just photoshop something based on the books (or free PDFs) from the Photoshop Cookbook series – feel free to use the available MAKE photos from Flickr pool (with […]
