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January 15, 2010

How-To: Light-up costume

Sarah James at Instructables has made this awesome light-up EL wire costume, and shares the process with us in her excellent tutorial.

January 13, 2010

How-To: Make a "stroke sensor"

Instructables user Plusea brings us this cool tutorial on how to make a soft sensor that closes a circuit when it is petted or stroked.

December 30, 2009

How-To: Structured light 3D scanning

Wow, an incredible Instructable fromKyle McDonald:

The same technique used for Thom's face in the Radiohead "House of Cards" video. I'll walk you through setting up your projector and camera, and capturing images that can be decoded into a 3D point cloud using a Processing application. Most 3D scanning is based on triangulation (the exception being time-of-flight systems like Microsoft's "Natal "). Triangulation works on the basic trigonometric principle of taking three measurements of a triangle and using those to recover the remaining measurements

December 29, 2009

How-To: Bass drum microphone shock mount

Instructables user brainparts built this acoustically-isolated microphone mounting ring for his kick drum using bungee cords and a short slice of 6" aluminum pipe, all for about $20. He says if he were to do it again, he'd just use PVC pipe for the ring.

Tesla tornado xmas tree

Instructables user mrfixits writes:

This Tesla Tornado is made using a Subaru blower fan motor, complete with its 3-position speed switch mounted on the base. The blower motor has a flywheel fabricated out of Lexan with 6 neodymium magnets mounted in it. It magnetically couples with 6 magnets in the Tesla Pump disc pack, which is inside the vortex tube. The Tesla pump discs are magnetically driven by the blower motor flywheel magnets, so there is no direct connection. The pump disc pack is self-centering, and there is no rotating shaft, shaft bearings, or seals required.

Because nothing says xmas like the slurp of that water pump! Great walkthrough of the building of this Tesla Tornado.

December 28, 2009

LED Wine Charms Instructable

Eventually somebody loses track of what glass they're drinking out of at almost every dinner party I attend. That's what those little wine charms are for. I really dig this LED wine charm instructable from billr. They're geeky, festive, and yet another excuse to add an LED to something that would otherwise forgo illumination.

December 24, 2009

How-To: City Dweller Chicken Tractor

Instructables user jrossetti writes:

In this instructable, I'll outline the requirements for a small chicken tractor for the backyard chicken enthusiast, such as myself, and describe the process of building it. After seeing a lot of chicken tractors on the internet for outrageous prices, I decided it'd be better for me to build one myself, for cheaper, and that fit my needs a bit better. I'll show you how I did it and give some pointers on making your own design.

For those of you that don't know what a chicken tractor is, it's essentially a chicken coop that can be moved around. Some of the main purposes for a mobile chicken coop are to allow the chickens to fertilize the grass (though this ain't pretty at all, hahah), and they can eat the grass - keeping it trim (if done right), eat bugs and weeds, and so you can hide it when your parents come visit. There's other benefits too, though I'm not saying a coop is NOT the way to go (actually, my city has an ordnance stating any permanent chicken coop must be 40 feet away from any human house, so a tractor is a nice efficient way to bypass that ordnance, muahaha!).

December 22, 2009

An open source... restaurant?

To be honest, I'm not really sure what is going on here, but it looks fun. Arne Hendriks and Bas van Abel have collaborated to create the Instructables Restaurant, an eatery where everything inside it- including food, furniture and entertainment- have been constructed from designs available for free on Instructables. They are still in the trial phase of the project, so they don't have a permanent location, but their inaugural event appears to have gone quite well.

Of course, if you would like to make your own, there is an Instructable for that.

December 12, 2009

CDornaments

Genius. Brilliant. Clever. Sparkly. Instructables user gmoon has a great tutorial for shredding CDs into crystalline decorations.

December 8, 2009

Power outlet with USB charging ports

You can pre-order yours now at Fastmac. Supposedly they will ship "in early 2010." Or you could just make your own. If you try it, remember Louie the Lightning Bug: "You gotta play it safe around electricity." [via Slippery Brick]

December 4, 2009

DIY iPhone Teleprompter

If you forget your lines in front of a camera, this may be the project for you. Using an iPhone, some coroplast, a cd case, and duct tape, maker Ben Eadie fashioned the hardware necessary for a DIY teleprompter. A trip to the App Store yielded the requisite software. Apparently if you're looking for software for a DIY teleprompter, there's an app for that. [Thanks, Dave!]

Here's a podcast Ben made that runs through the build process:

December 1, 2009

Tic Tac mini synth

Unigamer points out Andy Gadget's Instructable for building an ultra-portable melody/beat box - super cute!

This tiny box will give you hours of fun composing your own tunes. You can vary the tune tempo and switch between a pentatonic and blues scale as well as producing a variety of percussion sounds.
Load up a different program and it will compose its own percussion rhythms(Tic Tac Beat Box) or play with half a dozen different musical scales (Tic Tac Scales). Another cool feature is no power switch - It will hibernate when it's not being used.

The project runs off of a PicAxe-08M - grab the code + schematic here.

November 30, 2009

VCR toaster

Apparently inspired by BBC's The Young Ones, Instructables user lemonie put together a tutorial on how to make your own VHS toaster oven. He includes the following amusing note about safety:

If I thought anyone would attempt this (and they shouldn't) I'd offer the following warnings:
Ensure the metal parts are earthed (I did)
Do not place it on heat-sensitive surfaces.
Do not place heat-sensitive materials on top of it.
Take care not to touch any hot surfaces.
Do not leave the machine unattended.

November 29, 2009

Keepon Bento box

We know that people fall in love with their robots, and that's a fine thing, and we know the Keepon is particularly designed to create emotional bonds. But Keepon meatballs? Keepon broccoli? Hey, whatever floats your boat. I DO love the art of Bento, ever since I edited the Bento Box piece for our Best of Instructables book. One of these days, I'll get around to trying my hand at it.

Keepon Bento

In the Maker Shed:

The Best of Instructables Volume I The Instructables staff, the editors of MAKE, and the Instructables community itself put together this collection of the best food, home and garden, technology, science, and crafts how-to's from the site. The Best of Instructables includes full-color photographs, complete step-by-step instructions, and tips, tricks, and build techniques you won't find anywhere else. Over 300 pages!

November 23, 2009

Lightbulb terraria

Our own Brookelynn spotted this awesome lightbulb terrarium over on Instructables. [via CRAFT]

November 20, 2009

How-To: Open source intervalometer for Canon, Nikon cameras

Instructables user peterdr has put together a really excellent tutorial on how to build his CT-1 open-source hardware intervalometer for Canon and Nikon digital cameras. There's more info about the project at his personal website, and a parts kit is for sale on Amazon.com.

November 19, 2009

Solar-powered miniball

It may look like some futuristic Christmas tree ornament, but the miniball is part of the BEAM robot family of "rollers." A miniball is a motorized hamster ball that, sadly, you don't see in the wild too often. Solarbotics used to sell a miniball kit. This Instructable, by MAKE contributor and Solarbotics intern, Jérôme Demers, shows you how to make your own.

Solar Powered Miniball Wannabe

More:
How-To Tuesday: Make a Beetlebot
BeetleBot Revisited
Mousey the BeetleBot?

How-To: Custom wooden case for wireless charging mat

Instructables user jvalal didn't like the look of his Powermat inductive device charging station, so he stripped out the guts and "re-skinned" it with a handmade wooden case.

November 13, 2009

The EyeWriter

I'm thrilled to share the EyeWriter with you all:

Behold the latest ocular assault weapon from the Graffiti Research Lab, openFrameworks, The Fat Lab and The Ebeling Group: The EyeWriter. It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus + custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.

The goal of the hardware component of the EyeWriter project is to make the most simple and inexpensive eye-tracking head-set possible to use with the "EyeWriter" software suite. Obviously, there are numerous ways to make eye-tracking hardware. Many of these designs, especially those produced for academic research projects (Open Eyes ), have already been published openly on the internet.

Our functional design specifications are as follows:

1. The EyeWriter should be as inexpensive as possible
2. The fabrication and assembly of the system should require only common hand tools
3. Whenever possible components and parts should be available for purchase locally versus online
4. The camera should produce 640 x 480 NTSC video
5. The camera should be sensitive to near-field IR light
6. The camera should not auto-iris (or auto-iris should be disabled in the camera's driver).
7. IR LEDs should be used to illuminate the pupil

Beyond that its up to you... this instruction set details a solderless variation of the EyeWriter that uses a hacked PS3 Eye and a pair of stunnas we bought on Venice Beach and suggests other possible EyeWriter configurations.

Yes, that's right, watch TemptOne tag buildings (with light) even though he can only move his eyes. We live in the future, and this project makes me feel so warm inside. The whole project is open source.

November 12, 2009

How-To: Make your EAGLE schematic into a PCB

Here's one to bookmark, it's a very thorough tutorial for converting your EAGLE circuit schematic into PCB layout suitable for etching by Instructables user westfw.

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