Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Oops! I forgot one. I have a few old cell phones that this might work on. I also see gobs of them in second hand stores for less than $5 each all the time. One of these might make a good display on a robot if you can drive it.
MAKE: Blog: Use a Cell Phone LCD on your Computer
The theremin is a very cool device that is enjoying some what of a comeback these days. I’ll have to build one and place the speaker and antennas outside my front door. When someone goes to knock they will make weird music. Might scare them off too!
Whee! Lazy link day. I should just cut and paste the entire MAKE site it’s just that good!
I’m still waiting for my copy to come in the mail. I saw it at Borders today and I’d a little worried that it might have become ‘lost’ somewhere. Anyone else having this problem?
Ah, the good old Marx generator. These things are fun to build, just don’t let them bite you! Same can ge said about leyden jars I might add…
MAKE: Blog: Build your own Marx Generator
Too cool!
MAKE: Blog: Surplus Store List
Music projects are always fun to build. I wonder if I could attach one of these to my cell phone…
MAKE: Blog: Tonepad – DIY Music Projects
I did the same thing for a bit less I think. B&W film is fun to develope at home, nowdays you just scan them and you don’t have to mess with an enlarger. I just wish I had a scanner with less scratched glass and some anti Newton ring surface to it so I could get sharper images.
MAKE: Blog: Make a Photo Lab For $49.38
Well, it was bound to happen. Someone needs to send some DVDs of the Japanese anime series ‘Planetes‘ to the guys that want to militarize space. Most of the junk up there just won’t go away and even a paint chip can ruin a space craft.
Air Force officials said the directive did not call for militarizing space. “The focus of the process is not putting weapons in space,” said Maj. Karen Finn, an Air Force spokeswoman. “The focus is having free access in space.”
… to put nuclear weapons in space…
Air Force seeks Bush nod for space weapons
Lets all raise our glasses in a toast to this brave brave man, he removed the hard drive in his Mac Mini and installed a 4GB microdrive and adapter as well as three LiIon batteries to give him a self powered mini! It runs for over an hour and even better, it runs Linux.
Darn neat.
Mac Mini Surgery
It would be less scary if it didn’t look like a mash up of a disk gun and the starship Enterprise.
No heat, no recoil, no sound, no gunpowder, no flash — just 120,000 rounds per minute of pulverizing power. The next generation of weapons systems has arrived: the DREAD centrifuge-powered weapon system.
SoldierTech: The DREAD Weapon System
DREAD Weapon System promotional video (19MB on a slow link)
(thank you Steve, please don’t try to build one, but if you do, send video! 🙂 )