In honor of LEGO’s 75th anniversary, DIY Life has put together a list of 23 of their favorite LEGO projects online (many of which we’ve already covered here). The one seen above is an amazing, working Guitar Hero game controller modeled after the Gibson Explorer. LEGO’s 75th anniversary: 23 DIY LEGO ideas – Link Related: […]
Biotele writes – This instructable introduces the venerable Spy Ear in details and my way to reverse engineer a circuit. Why does this device deserves its own instructable?: You can buy a Spy Ear for a dollar! It can amplify sounds up to 60 dB or a factor of a 100. It has a self […]
This attractive cup-perched craft project is actually a working papercraft model of a Stirling engine being sold by a Germany science novelty catalog. Sitting on your tea or coffee cup, the heat (or cold) from within will power the engine for up to an hour. The kit costs EUR21.90 (around US$30). The Stirling engine kit […]
If you read Bill Gurstelle’s “Happy Blastoff” piece, about last year’s LDRS (Large Dangerous Rocket Ships) event, in MAKE Vol. 10, and it whet your appetite for building some LDRS of your own, INFOCentral is for you. Maintained by Rocketry Online, it’s a decent beginner’s online reference library covering all aspects of rocket design, construction, […]
This fairly simple hack uses a Nintendo Wii remote to capture G-force readings in a car, dump it to a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) text file, and then graph it via Excel. The results aren’t the most precise, but apparently good enough to give you some useful feedback on car mods. Wii Remote Measurements [via] – […]
Remember when your momma used to tell you: “Wash your hands after touching that money. You don’t know where it’s been!” Well, now you can reply: “I do so! Let’s see: it first showed up in Dayton, Ohio, five years ago, at a Sonic drive-thru, then it headed south, then west, spending a lot of […]
The Vienna chapter of Dorkbot did a video of their last meeting, focused on game machine hacking. The hacks range from refurbishing and computerizing an analog pinball machine, to an electric guitar casemod (the NES Paul), to making music with the Nintendo DS. The meeting takes place at Metalab, an amazing playground for hackers in […]
