“Artists Chris Reilly and Taylor Hokanson appear to be getting some impressive results from their DIYLILCNC. They certainly aren’t the first to develop an open source CNC mill, however their build looks particularly nice. They claim that the whole thing can be assembled for around $700, including the stepper motors and drive electronics. Want to [...]
16 Nov
Inspired by sundials, Taufeeq created a “Circle of Light” bulbdial clock. that uses shadows instead of hands to show the time. In theory, if you could use LEDs that have a perfect diffusion pattern, you could end up with a clock that has a white face and three hands: one cyan, one magenta and one [...]
23 Sep
Sylvain submitted his latest project: a geiger counter with a USB interface. Thanks for sharing your nice project! USB Geiger Counter [link]
30 Apr
Arman Bohn sent me a couple of links to his projects – and I took forever to put them online. Sorry about that, been busy. The first one, the Magical Toolbox, is a multi-effect generator built into a tool box. It has a stereo phase-cancelling reverb, fuzz box and ring modulator – All in stereo. [...]
17 Mar
“ADACHI’s self-made instruments are consists of simple electronic circuit, almost case built in tupperware. They never can make precise pitch, but have good sound and noise, easy to operate and carry and worked by battery. Of course the funny and pretty looks are important aspects.” Tupperware Synthesizers [link][via][via]
15 Mar
This is a project that will surely please guitarists, singers, or any other musicians that play on stage. Basically, you gut out a USB keyboard, keeping only the electronics and you build a pedal that you map to specific keys. This allows you to either scroll down a document (partitions, tablatures, lyrics, etc.) or even [...]
14 Mar
This project is a bit different from those I normally put up. It’s a kit (actually, a board) for a headphone amp. The difference resides s that it’s not made with what you have lying around, and its more costly. I made an exception because I have a decent pair of Grados, which I love, [...]
07 Mar
This project is a bit pointless: a volume limiter that plugs into your iPod or favorite portable audio device, and that you plug your headphones into. Now, given that any intelligent sensible person will lower the volume instead of using this device, its only potential use is forcing your children to use it. However, you [...]
07 Mar
Here’s a good idea: use an old SoundBlaster card and turn it into a cheesy-sounding General-MIDI box. If I were a porno film producer, I’d definitely need a couple of these for the soundtracks. DIY general MIDI synth from an old Soundblaster [link & link][via]
05 Mar
I swear, I didn’t see this until I posted yesterday’s post: it’s basically the same thing, but mono (so much for stereo separation anyways), and amplified! I’ll definitely build myself one of these. They’d also make great gifts for guitar playing friends. Refer to yesterday’s project for installing felt in the tin, as it probably [...]
by Robert
"The distance is very far. I would have no doubt that you could control it from 100ft -200ft or more. ..."by Storage
"This is my kind of gadget. Whats the range on one of these? It would be ideal to stand at ..."by Manualidades
"Wow! great craft, but very dificult for me... hehehe thats man is incredible "by Ray
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18 Nov