Tag Archive for 'diy'
I don’t have a dog, which is probably a good thing as I bore terribly easily and playing with it all the time would soon lose its charm. FetchBot might be one way of alleviating said-boredom (both for me and the pooch): built from the guts of an old AGFA scanner, it fires tennis balls [...]
In September T-Mobile Germany began offering the Acer Aspire One with integrated 3G; however the factory fit WWAN modem has been an elusive option for the rest of us. As the breakdown of the netbook proved, however, fitting your own 3G modem shouldn’t be too difficult a task: the intrepid tnkgrl has done just that, [...]
Since most people carry a USB memory stick around with them these days, especially geeky sorts who want controlled access to computer lab, why not take advantage of the stick’s unique serial number to act as a key? That’s the theory behind this Makers Local 256 project, which monitors new USB devices plugged into an [...]
DIY eco-power systems are growing in popularity, and most of them involve building some sort of wind turbine. Fashioning your own photovoltaic solar panels is unlikely to be a feasible option, but a DIY wind turbine needn’t be too vast a challenge: that’s just what Mike Davis has done, breaking the whole system down into five key areas - generator, turbine [...]
It says a lot about me, I suppose, but when I was younger I thought a calculator-watch was possibly the coolest thing you could have on your wrist. Pro-electronics engineer David Jones obviously feels the same way, as he’s replaced his broken Casio CFX-400 scientific calculator watch with a DIY μWatch based on a 16-bit microprocessor, [...]
ToDo forum member stretracer18 loved his Acer Aspire One netbook, but wanted a touchscreen slate version instead; Acer not being forthcoming with such a UMPC, he created his own. Now we’ve seen touchscreen modifications of netbooks before, but this is a full case reworking: the top and bottom sections of the Aspire One have been screwed [...]
It only fires rubber bands, but you’d be forgiven for thinking this fan-made replica of Snake’s pistol from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was a lot more dangerous. Hand-made, it loads by cocking open the top section and threading elastic bands - up to twelve - onto the ratchet wheel; flip off [...]
If you’ve got to have a six-PC render farm for your business, you might as well make it look good. Designer Fredrik Perman moved offices in North Carolina, and decided to put his six Intel dual-core PCs up on the wall of the lobby in a custom plexiglass case. Lighting is from LED fans and [...]
The product of 800+ hours of work spread over fifteen months, this tubular beastie is a painstaking reMake of Ariel’s utterly bonkers Atom sportscar. Dubbed the z59 by its builder, Proximacentuari, it was constructed from scratch using stainless steel panels from old appliances, the Acura k20a3 engine from a crashed RSX, and the (few) bodypanels [...]
Take 4096 LEDs, 64 RGB microcontrollers and four Atari joysticks, throw them (with some degree of accuracy) at a coffee table, and you might get this: a four-way Pong table. The whole top surface of the table has been turned into an LED array, the result of a two-year project by SparkFun Electronics.
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