Blackrazor has a new Instructable on making a project case, he writes – “This project shows how to build a simple project case out of hardware store materials in about an afternoon. It is particularly suitable for projects that need user controls or displays. For this example, I built a case for the amazing “Wacky […]
Here’s how to build a very bright, very low power portable light for less than $100, the Maker uses this on his bike. Link.
Here’s an Instructable on how to make a stencil, and custom spray paint your laptop. Link.
If you are one of those people who never has the right cable when they need it then this project is for you. Turn one cat5 network cable into the Megatron of cabling by wiring custom adaptors and bridges. This straight through cable can transform into a crossover, serial, serial null-modem, cisco console, vga or vga extension cable by using four adapters, two links and one couple. Link.
Excellent project – “The digital hourglass is a German design project, developed by Susann Hamann and Fabian Hemmert from Germany. The project was created for two classes in the “Interface Design” course of study at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, supervised by Prof. Reto Wettach. Aiming to create a new alarm clock, Susann and Fabian focused on the amount of sleep, not on the time of waking up. Also, the interaction should be intuitive and close to what would be done with a real hourglass.” [via] Link. More here (German).
Kyle writes – “A port of an Atari 2600 emulator to the Max/MSP/Jitter programming environment. This means that the Atari 2600 emulation parameters can be manipulated in a nearly infinite number of ways, producing Max/MSP/Jitter-based visuals with the 2600 aesthetic. Being within Jitter, the pixels generated from the Atari 2600 can be mapped to different types of surfaces, stretched, and zoomed. The audio output can be captured and manipulated by MSP as well.” Link.
Erinys writes “Here’s how to build a contact microphone. A step by step I put together years ago, but it is surprisingly still of use. Contact microphones may be used to record acoustic waves that propagate through media such as wood, sheet metal, or a block of ice. Doesn’t sound “pretty” in a classical sense, but if you’re into noise and field recordings, you’ll love what you can coax out of an old tin can with one of these attached.” Link.
