Wow… I think now have enough reading for the next ten years. Science buffs gather ’round, the library is now open! Plant alkaloids, organic reactions, aluminium and its alloys, its some good stuff!
Category: DIY
Zektor’s Vector Generator
This is on hell of a cool device. It lets you link up a vector monitor, that’s a TV with X and Y inputs.. Oh wait, you say you don’t have one of those? No problem, you can use a two channel oscilloscope. Huh? You don’t have one of those either? OK, well your a little low on luck, but if you look around I’m sure you can find one. If your truly hard core you could pony up the bucks and buy a classic Vectrex game system. These can be driven by the ZVG. I used to own a Vectrex… Pardon me, I get a little emotional about that. I wish I’d never sold it. Anyway, where was I, oh yeah. The ZVG takes a vector monitor and lets you run vector MAME games on it vie you computer. So you can have the stunning quality of a crisp vector display while you kick some Fuseball ass
[via Retro Thing]
DIY – RGB mood lamp
I have all the parts to make one pf these, I just have to get off my rear and put everything together. The project uses LEDs (red, green, blue) and a PIC miceocontroller to cycle through combinations that are set via three DIP switches. in fact, this is exactly what you need:
– 3 transistors
– one PIC 16F628 and a programmer
– a small perforated circuit board
– some resistors
– a battery holder (4 x AAA)
– a nice casing
– diy silicons (clear caulking – John)
– red, green and blue extra bright leds
Easy, eh?
[via MAKE]
How to: Make a Harmless Tripwire Mine
Mumm… there’s a hardware store on the way home that sells all the parts I need to build these uber nifty mousetrap tripwire mines. Very harmless (even if you do put roll caps in them) and easy to make these booby traps could mean and end to office desk pilfering. If you have a bag of these mines, a couple of micro-claymores, and a few Nerf guns you would be all set for a very un-productive day in the office
Building a DIY a Makeshift Film Scanner
Do you have a bunch of 35mm negatives (or slides for that matter) that you would love to get into your computer? No, don’t try to force them into your floppy drive, you need to get the tools out and make a trip down to the DIY store for some parts. This nifty project will turn a tube and some plastic into a holder that you can take macro photos of your film. You might say ‘hey, my flat bed scanner will scan negatives. Why should I do this?’ Well, you might not know this but your digital camera has a greater dynamic range than most scanners. That means you shadows and highlights will retain more information when you shoot them. Nothing sucks more than scanning a slide in and seeing blown out highlights and noise in the shadows.
G73 Pano Pinhole 35 Camera
I’m happy to see that my projects are having an effect of people.
After seing this Team Droid pinhole camera.. I was inspired to create a Golgo73 version of a panoramic pinhole camera.. The main difference was that I wanted to use 35mm film.. It’s much cheaper.. And more importantly -> Way easier to find.. I was aiming for a small form factor initially.. But I went a bit bigger to make first time construction easier..Below is what I came up with.. The G73 Pano Pinhole 35..
Nice job, I like that he used fome core for his construction material.
[via MAKE]