If you are into DIY equipment have a look at the Home Made Mill that Kenneth Maxon built, it is just one piece of equipment in his dream workshop. I am sure envious of his cave of creation, I am trying to think of something that couldn’t be built in there. ” The CNC project also included the design and construction of three independent forced air cooled twenty six volt
If you are looking for something cool to do with your iPod Touch have a look at what Dave Phipps has done with his ’69 Pontiac GTO. Using an iPod Touch interfaced to a RedEye controller he now has remote control of many features. He has a good range (WiFi range) and can remotely open the windows, doors trunk and soft top. He can also start the car and rev
Viktor over at Karosium has been playing with his Fonera router. Looks like they are charging for the routers now, I got mine when they were still free. Viktor was able to hack the router to allow him to connect it to 1-Wire devices. “On the hardware side I opted to use a DS2480B 1-Wire Line Driver chip. This chip is used in the DS9097U adapters so it’s basically the
If you want to add some of those cool video where the camera swoops in from overhead or pulls back into the sky? Well if you are handy with the tools and have $10 dollars to spare why not make your own! This DIY Camera Crane uses two lengths of wood that pivot on the stand which allows the camera mount to stay true. Thanks for sending it in Andrew.
Nicholas and Felice were featured on Make for some new items that they have in the Makers Market. For those who haven’t heard about the Makers Market you should check it out. I am looking into setting up a store there to sell a few geeky things that I have been thinking about. Looks like Nicholas is also a fan of TWIT TV, a network that Leo Laporte created and
Chris Anderson did a great talk at the Maker Faire about the evolution of the DIY Drone Autonomous Flight system.
Kenneth Finnegan who shared his DIY Binary Clock Build with us has made another clock. This time it’s a Digital TTL Clock. This design brings back memories of college when I had to design a mock photocopier circuit that allowed the entry of number of copies and decremented the number till it was down to zero. I also used 7 segment displays and the same driver chip. I have to
