Mark has a crazy PC mod, he writes – “We thought a fast computer should have hot rod flames, working headlights, and a custom license plate. As for the cooling system, an LED case fan just wasn’t going to be original enough. Instead, our case fan is a turbocharger commonly found on late 1990’s Mitsubishi […]
The latest The Citizen Scientist has a good how to for making a DIY macro lens for a Casio EX-Z120 – “To assemble a macro lens for your camera, you need the cap of a film container like the one shown in Fig. 1. Use a knife to cut away the center of the cap […]
Tanais writes “This is a follow up to an article I did shoehorning an ordinary Lucent Card into an iBook’s Airport slot — that was published in the Make: blog here This time I decided to use the same Lucent card but with a pair of DIY “coil” antennae to boost the signal of the […]
Here’s how to build a low cost RFID skimmer (it reads the contents of a RFID tag) – wow! “In this study we show that the modeling predictions are quite accurate. We show how to build a portable, extended-range RFID skimmer, using only electronics hobbyist supplies and tools. Our skimmer is able to read ISO-14443 […]
Wow, here’s a homemade QuadriFilar Helix antenna for APT satellite reception. What can you do with this? Pull down weather images as satellites orbit the earth and transmit their images – here’s how it was made and some images snagged from NOAA18, NOAA17, NOAA15 and NOAA12 – Link. Related: Design and construction of quadrifilar helicoidal […]
Adam @ Lifehacker’s how to on installing linux on a Linksys WRT54GL – “Of all the great DIY projects at this year’s Maker Faire, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old $60 router into a powerful, highly configurable $600 router. The router has an interesting history, but all you […]
MAKE reader Al sent in this fm signal boosting mod for the nano iTrip – “If your like me you have purchased an fm transmitter for you ipod with dreams of wirelessly transmit your tunes to your car stereo or home stereo. Well these things do work, but generally reception is a problem,.. you end […]
