Check out this awesome 3D mouse you can build using some creative hacks!
I’ve been exploring 3D graphics using VVVV. One of the things you quickly learn when working in 3D is that doing anything with a 2D mouse is a pain. Particularly I found I was spending a lot of time shuffling the camera position which involves a tricky combination of keystrokes and mouse movements. I wanted to get a camera control that would allow me
Check out this cool LED nerf football you can make! Although the howto is simple, the idea is a genuis!
Here’s a cool internet controlled security robot you make yourselves and protect your home or office!
Wow, here’s a cool internet controlled security robot using CUBLOC CB280, CuBASE 32M,
video://blip.tv/file/get/Make-MakePodcastCircuitBending947
Tight, Bre’s onto some more old school hacking at Make!
In this Weekend Projects podcast, Bre Pettis is joined by circuit bender Justin Gerardy to explain how to circuit bend. Then we bent up a Speak and Read and an Omnichord. With the omnichord, we found everything by probing around for cool sounds. If you’ve never done this, you’ve gotta try it out and circuit bend up some 80’s electronics!
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Here’s some cool quick notes on touch sensors QT113/118 for those of you trying to invent touch enabled systems.
I need a touch sensor for a couple of projects, and the Qprox QT113 seems to be the way to go, particularly for interfacing with an Atmel processor. It’s easy to work with, and hooks-up with only a bare minimum of extra stuff. All you need is a resistor and capacitor and a bit of wire or trace to compose the sensor.
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Check out this cool DIY on making your own LED Pimp Bedroom and RGB light HOWTO!
I got this idea last year from a couple different things, one was this rope lightdecoration at the Illini Union courtyard cafe that continuously changes colors. The other was from this huge bright LED sign at Irving Park and Sheridan in Chicago that is at s
Check out this funky homemade wireless antenna you can make it yourself and extend the range of your home wireless network. Tight!
Most of the designs on the web for 2.4 GHz omni antenna seem to involve brass tubing and lmr-400 cable, none of which are readily available to me. I then found a
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In case you missed it, here’s HOWTO make a Birdfeeder Webcam. Garrett been telling me how his college project on a webcam birdfeeder webcam has gotten over 30% of his university’s web traffic, now here’s a cool video how you can make one yourself. There’s also a cool pdf you can download for step-by-step instructions.
Have y
video://www.metacafe.com/watch/377612/hack_the_staples_easy_button/
Kenji found this cool video on hacking a staples easy button and the video is hilarious. It’s a cool little project that hacks the staples easy button with a voice module from Radio Shack! The cat in the video does some soldering too!
Check out this open source home automation software that you can mess around with. Garrett found this site while trying to make some of his home automation DIYs. Cool! Thanks Garrett!
MisterHouse is an open source home automation program. It’s fun, it’s free, and it’s entirely geeky. Written in Perl, it fires events based on time,
