Check out these guys smashing on their new shovercrafts! Awesome DIY on how to make one too.

Get your motors running, put your safety helmet, ear protection and safety glasses on, steady your fire extinguishers and prop open your first aid kit… Now you’re ready for he ultimate in diy sports - Shovercraft! Combining all the thrills of a personal hovercraft with the targeting challenges of shuffleboard, shovercraft is the ultimate in frictionless fun!

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We caught Philip Torrone from Make on his new video review of open-source products.

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Here’s a look back at some of our cool and idiotic DIYs. Maybe you can digg up some ideas for the winter holidays:

OR you can goto this link to view in pictures:

(Come to think of it, we could probably hack some of our DIYs together and make a Nintendo Wii wireless controller)

• Garrett’s DIY - Upcoming Boe-Bot Hacks - Remote Controlled Insect
• Garrett’s DIY - Home Automation Project - Part One: Real-Time Clock and Calendar
• DIY - Use the golf POV for your next Ad, here’s a Nike Swoosh
• Zedomax DIY118 - HOWTO Make a Golf Club POV training aid!
• Garrett’s DIY #1 - Persistence of Vision Device
• Zedomax DIY117 - HOWTO Make a Digital Drawing Board with an old joystick in 5 minutes!
• Zedomax DIY 116- Halloween HOWTO make a talking pumpkin basket!
• Halloween Pitchfork Program Update - Flaming Trident
• DIY Circuit - Wireless Microphone transmits to FM frequency
• Zedomax DIY 115- HOWTO establish serial connection with PCs bluetooth 2.0 with ACODE-300
• Zedomax DIY 114- Halloween HOWTO make a Pitchfork LED!
• Zedomax DIY 113 - Build a bluetooth controlled Holloween Hovercraft party light!
• Zedomax DIY 112 - Zedomax Hovercraft version 2 - Asteroid!
• Zedomax DIY - Hoverboard tried??
• DIY - Make User Interface in 5 Minutes!
• DIY - Make a Ethernet Temperature Monitor
• DIY - Build a digital thermometer in 1 minute!
• DIY - Make an alarm system in 3 minutes! (Part II - Add a motion sensor)
• DIY - Make a wall clock from scratch!
• DIY - Make a computer controlled party light in 90 seconds!
• DIY - Make a touch screen sprinkler system for your lawn and garden
• DIY - Make a G-Meter for your car in 1 minute!
• Make a Touch screen Slotmachine and Blackjack in your car
• Add a NEMA17 Stepper Motor to ur App
• Add a Bar-code Scanner to ur App
• Digital Compass using CMPS03
• G Meter for your car
• Wireless Graphic LCD

Check out the Fabber wiki for a complete Do-It-Yourself topics on how to make your own fabber.
What is a fabber?

Fabbers make three-dimensional, solid objects that can be used as models, as prototypes, or as delivered products. They are widely used by manufacturers for these purposes. Fabbers use a wide range of techniques to make products from a wide range of materials. The quality of these materials and the precision of fabrication can be a major constraint on functional applications.

Here’s the best place for electronics in France!

I just got my new make magazine volume 8, cool cover aey?

Here’s a video of upcoming boe-bot hacks from Garrett using a Parallax Boe-Bot platform and CUBLOC CB220.as brain. This little creature has couple of cool looking features such as a tail, antennas, and eyes that can be remote-controlled via a regular TV remote-control. HOWTO will follow soon. In the meanwhile, you will just have to enjoy Jackie decorating Garrett’s remote controlled insect…

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Here’s a cool DIY on how to control a DC motor using your serial port via Make.

Westsw shows you how to control the speed of a small DC motor with nothing but the serial port on your computer, a single MOSFET, and DOS commands…