MP4 | Hi-Def | Blip | YouTube | PDF | Subscribe Sometimes it can be so frustrating to have people you want to give a T-shirt to who are far away and inaccessible on the upper decks of stadiums. They wave their hands in desperation with such hope and joy at the possibility of receiving […]
I went to a big box hardware store to pick up the parts for this. If I remember right it came out to be about $75 with lots of PVC left over for other projects. It took at least an hour to find all the parts in the store. Seriously, hardware stores don’t organize the […]
From the comments on the Weekend Projects Joule Thief video, folks have found that winding the toroid requires some fussing with how many times to wrap it. Flickr-user Mr Toms World managed to make a nice looking Joule Thief! Nice work! – Link
MP4 | Hi-Def | Blip | Youtube | PDF | Subscribe This week, Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories joins me to teach you how to make a super clever little circuit called the Joule Thief! The Joule Thief allows you to squeeze the life out of what most people think of as “dead” […]
You’re going to need a white or blue LED that is rated for 3 volts, a 1K resistor, a 2N 3904 NPN transistor, a toroid, two pieces of wire and a battery. You might even be able to scavenge this stuff out of your junk pile of electronics… you have a junk pile of electronics […]
Click To Play mp4 | hd-appletv | youtube | blip | itunes | pdf My buddy Lee Lefever brought it to my attention that the zombies are coming. – Link In order to keep my brain intact within my skull, I’m adopting the non-traditional infiltration approach described in this podcast. I’ve called in Erik Beck […]
In order to survive the zombpocalypse, I’ve got an article on ghoulish makeup from the halloween issue in this weekend’s PDFcast. But it doesn’t stop there, for your survival this halloween, I’ve included 5 articles from the Make: Halloween Edition. So If you’re still not sure what you should be for halloween, you can download […]
