Rabu, Oktober 07, 2009

Solar-Powered Bike GPS


Solar-Powered Bike GPS
Brian Nadel | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 3 pgs | 2 mb
I've spent much of my adult life dealing with either
computers or bicycles. Writing about computer
technology has put food on my family's table and a
roof over our heads, while riding helps me unwind,
clearing my head of the jargon that accumulates
throughout the workday.

During the summer. I'll disappear for hours on
long rides to nowhere and back. But I have to admit
on some rides I've gotten so lost I have trouble
finding my way home. Happily, I was able to build
a solar-powered GPS mapping machine, mostly
from old computer parts and software I had sitting
around my office. I've seen motorcycle-mounted
GPS navigation screens. but have never come
across one on a bicycle, even though it seems
like a natural mix of appropriate and functional
technology.
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Happy Blastoff


Happy Blastoff
William Gurstelle | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 6 pgs | 2 mb

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Origami Flying Disc


Origami Flying Disc
Cy Tymony | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 1 pgs | 1 mb
Understand Bernoulli's principle of flowing fluids and gases with a paper flyer.
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Lucid Dreaming Mask


Lucid Dreaming Mask
Nathan True | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 1 pgs | 1 mb
YOU'RE SITTING IN YOUR CAR, DRIVING to work. Al a stoplight, the car across the way starts flashing its lights al you. Squinting, you think: What's thisguy's problem? Lazily, you recall something about bright lights ... and then you remember. Flashing lights mean I'm dreaming? You take a moment to confirm it (yes, your glove compartment is filled with goldfish, as expected). then step calmly out of your car and decide to fly through the air.

This is the "lucid dreaming" state, which lets you interact consciously with your dream worlds and break the rules of reality. Lucid dreaming is fun, and enthusiasts have developed many ways of trying to induce the phenomenon, from simply repeating statements of intent ("I will realize I am dreaming tonight") to using hypnosis and brain wave analysis.
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Selasa, Oktober 06, 2009

RoboHouse


RoboHouse
Andrew Turner | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 5 pgs | 2 mb
My house is a robot. It thinks, reacts, predicts, and informs. Throughout the day it lets me know how its inhabitants are doing and takes care of all the little things I forget. If I'm worried that I left the front door open or that the heater is turned up too high, I can view my house's website or RSS feed through a browser or my mobile phone.

In addition to making my life easier, my house is concerned about saving the planet and my wallet. It can turn off unused appliances and lamps and
intelligently control my heating and air conditioning systern according to when someone is home and where it's coldest or hottest in the house.
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Radar Speed Detector


Radar Speed Detector
Ken Delahoussaye | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 5 pgs | 3 mb
I was browsing through a department store one day,
in search of a gift for my 8-year-old daughter, when
I came across Mattel's Hot Wheels Radar Gun
($30). The box said that this toy could clock the
speeds of not only miniature Hot Wheels cars. but
also full-sized vehicles.

I figured the toy must have severe limitations, but
decided to buy one for my daughter anyway. It turns
out that she (we) loved it, and we found that it could
accurately measure the speeds of toy cars. cars on
the road, even joggers. To my amazement. the detector
even measured the speeds of spinning objects
like bicycle wheels.
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Plastic Fantastic Desk Set


Plastic Fantastic Desk Set
Charles Platt | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 10 pgs | 4 mb
ABS* TO THE RESCUE
Last night I dreamed of a magical material
that would be bendable like metal, as easy to
shape as wood, and would never warp, split, or
splinter. It would be washable, would never need
painting, and would last almost forever.
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*)Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene
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Wealth Without Money


Wealth Without Money
Matt Sparkes | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 2 pgs | 1 mb
QUIETLY AND DILIGENTLY, IN LOCATIONS
all over the world, an organization is working to bring the means of
production to the masses. Their motto. "Wealth without money."
implies a political motivation, though they're not socialists, Marxists,
or communists --- they're hardware hackers.

Adrian Bowyer, at Bath University in the U.K., leads the RepRap
project (reprap.org) to develop a design for a very special
rapid-prototyping machine. The device treads a fine line between
being capable enough to produce complex goods, and simple
enough in design that it can produce its own parts. The result is
a self-replicating machine, with the potential to spread across
the planet at an exponential rate.
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Mini High-Power Laser


Mini High-Power Laser
Liberate a 200mW Laser from a DVD burner
Stephanie Maksylewich | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 5 pgs | 3 mb
High-speed DVD burners are mass-market commodities now.
Most new computers sport DVD-RW drives, and discount shops
sometimes carry upgrade burners for less than $30. They're cheap,
but inside every one lies a hidden secret that many of us would
have killed for 20 years ago: a high-powered, solid-state, visible
red laser. This means that with a pretty small expenditure and
a little hacking, you can have a portable. handheld laser that's
powerful enough to ignite matches, burst balloons, and melt
plastic. Here's how to do it.
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Art Work: Illuminated Circuits


Art Work: Illuminated Circuits
Douglas Repetto | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 2 pgs | 1 mb
The art and craft of circuit design is an openended endeavor, with
enormous potential for both pragmatic invention and playful creativity.
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Downhill Makers


Downhill Makers
Jason Verlinde | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 3 pgs | 2 mb
SOME MODES OF TRANSPORTATION WERE destined for garage builders.Think of the thousands of wooden canoes, dune buggies, and steel-framed road bikes that hobbyists have created over the years. Modern, high-performance downhill skis, on the other hand. seem to be an entirely different beast. the kind ofstate-of-the-art product that only a big factory production process could churn out. Who else has the ability to fuse together all those exotic materials into a sturdy package that will safely get you down icy slopes, powder runs, and even the occasional cliff huck?
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Minggu, Oktober 04, 2009

In the Beginning was the CRT


In the Beginning was the CRT
George Dyson | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 3 pgs | 1 mb
Introduced in 1897, the cathode-ray tube brought us oscilloscopes, television. radar. computer terminals, the electron microscope. and, 110 years later, YouTube. But the hum of flyback transformers, by which so much code was written, is at an end. As the last generation of armblooded monitors vacates our desks, let us remember that the cathode-ray tube's contribution to digital computing began as internal memory, not external display.

Conventional CRTs display the state of a temporary memory buffer whose contents are produced by the central processing unit (CPU). Once upon a time, however, cathode-ray tubes were the core memory, and they stored the instructions that drove the operations of the CPU. This was one of those sudden adaptations of pre-existing features for unintended purposes by which evolution leaps ahead.

By 1953 there were 53 kilobytes of random-access memory in the entire world, with 5kB in the original IAS machine.
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Cool Photo Websites


Cool Photo Websites
Mark Frauenfelder | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 2 pgs | 1 mb
Thanks to the rise of inexpensive digital cameras and photo sharing
sites like Flickr. photography is more popular than ever. I've come across a number of useful and free web-based services that make it easier to save. share. organize, and edit your digital photographs.

How can I download many Flickr photos at once?
You can batch-download multiple photos from a Flickr set with a free utility. It's tedious work downloading a bunch of full-resolution photos from a Flickr account to your computer, requiring a lot of back-and-forth mouse clicking. Windows users have it much easier: they can grab a copy of FlickrDown (greggman.com/pages/flickrdown.htm), a nifty utility that makes it easy to download dozens or even hundreds of photos from Flickr in one fell swoop.

After launching FlickrDown, enter the Flickr username you're interested in. After the thumbnails load. you can check the ones you want. or select "All photos" (if the user has lots of photos this could take a lot of time and consume quite a bit of hard disk space, so be careful). Then select a directory to store the files in, and click Download.
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Electronic Test Equipment


Electronic Test Equipment
Tom Anderson & Wendell Anderson | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 9 pgs | 3 mb
Take a look at a printed circuit board. You can see components such as resistors and capacitors, but where is the voltage? Where is the signal? How do you tell if the circuit is working correctly? What if you want to change it?

Electronic test equipment lets you probe and "see" the voltages and currents running through electronic circuits. This article covers four basic devices: oscilloscopes, power supplies, function generators, and multimeters. Learning to use these tools - especially the mighty oscilloscope - requires patience, but it's an absolute requirement for building, trouble-shooting, and hacking electronic gizmos.
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Make0806: DIY - Home


Make0806: DIY - Home
Pdf | 9 pgs | 2 mb
MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH LEDS
Build a bright, low-powered desk lamp. By Charles Platt
TV SPINNER
Motorized lazy Susan aims the screen where it's needed. By Alan Mellovitz
SMART HVAC
Energy-efficient A/C knows when you're in the room. By Dave Mabe
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Windup Car


Windup Car
Paul LeDuc | Make Vol. 09- 2007 | Pdf | 2 pgs | 1 mb
When my pickup truck broke down, a friend lent me her Geo Metro convertible for 2 weeks. Well, I'm a good-sized guy, and at first I felt a bit silly driving this tiny car, but quickly tell in love with it. It's easy to park, great on gas, and o blast to drive. I decided to buy my own, and I though that if I'm willing to be seen driving this toy sized car, why not go all the way and put a big windup key on the back?
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Sabtu, Oktober 03, 2009

Make0806: DIY - Music


Make0806: DIY - Music
Pdf | 10 pgs | 2 mb
TV-TO-SYNTH INTERFACE
Triggering sound from video images. By Tom Zimmerman
WORLD'S LOUDEST IPOD
iBump crossover lets you crank it up without distortion. By Tom Anderson and Wendell Anderson
PROJECT REDSHARK
Turn your Xbox into a mobile media monstrosity. By John Riney
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Fail Early! Fail Often!


Fail Early! Fail Often!
Tom Jennings | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 4 pgs | 2 mb
NO ONE TALKS OF FAILURE AS ANYTHING but shameful:
this is wrongheaded and foolish. Mistakes are synonymous with
learning. Failing is unavoidable. Making is a process, not an end.
It is true that deep experience helps avoid problems, but mainly
it gives you mental tools with which to solve inevitable problems
when they come up.

It all begins with a mental toolbox, filled with useful items you
can't buy. but can only obtain through the act of failing again and
again. Here are mine.
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Make0907: DIY - Home


Make0907: DIY - Home
Pdf | 13 pgs | 7 mb
TIME-BASED DEVICES
Transplant a heartbeat from cheap alarm clocks. By Larry Cotton
METAL ETCHING
Chemically carve detailed text of line art onto brass or copper. By Tom Jennings
ELEGANT PLYWOOD COFFEE TABLE
Making furniture with no nails, screws, or glue. By Andy Lee
THE BYTELIGHT
Make a high-tech mood light from a fluorescent lamp and 54 obsolete SIMMS. By Ross Orr
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Pinhole Panoramic Camera


Pinhole Panoramic Camera
Ross Orr | Make Vol. 09- 2007 | Pdf | 12 pgs | 5 mb
PIN-O-RAMA
Lensless and low-tech, pinhole cameras have always been maker-friendly. But forget the Quaker Oats carton, and go wide with this roll-film, panorama design.

I bought a new scanner recently, and soon found myself spelunking through drawers of old photos from my many misspent years in photography. Some of the most interesting shots were the pinhole camera experiments I had done as a teenager. With ghostly outlines from multi-minute exposures, and shapes warped into boomerangs by curved film, these otherworldly images got me dreaming about pinhole cameras again.
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MIDI Controller Monkey


MIDI Controller Monkey
Peter Kim | Make Vol. 08- 2006 | Pdf | 4 pgs | 1 mb
Who said input devices have to be hard and mechanical? Here's one that's as soft, bendable, and easy to play with as a plush toy. In my MIDI primer (MAKE. Volume 07, page 158. "MIDI Control"), we saw how to use the MIDI data specification, originally designed for music, to interconnect both musical and non-musical hardware and software. Now, we'll use this approach to construct a sock monkey instrument you can use to control visuals and sound.

The monkey has flex sensors sewn into its limbs, and it wears a sensor interface board as a backpack. The sensors detect the monkey's movements, and the board converts the readings into MIDI data. This lets the monkey conduct audio-visual symphonies and perform other
MIDI magic.
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Jumat, Oktober 02, 2009

The Brain Machine


The Brain Machine
Mitch Altman | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 12 pgs | 4 mb
RIDE YOUR OWN BRAIN WAVES
You don't have to be a Buddhist monk to meditate, or a Sleeping Beauty to sleep well. Achieve these altered states of consciousness, and others, with this simple microcontroller device.

What would happen if you could play a recording of brain waves into someone's brain? That question popped into my mind one day while I was meditating, and it turns out that there are devices that can do this. Sound and Light Machines (SLMs) produce sound and light pulses at brain wave frequencies, which help people sleep, wake up, meditate, or experience whatever state of consciousness the machine is programmed for. The first
time tried one was a trip! Not only did I follow the sequence into a deep meditation and then out again (feeling wonderful!), but along the way I had beautiful, outrageous hallucinations.
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Make0806: DIY - Imaging


Make0806: DIY - Imaging
Pdf | 6 pgs | 1 mb
HOW NOT TO MAKE A HOW-TO VIDEO
Ignore these handy rules and your instructional video will turn out great! By Travis J. l. Corcoran
VAN TV
Big sights and sounds hit the streets. By Ethan O'Toole
QUICK AND DIRTY LIGHT TABLE
A storage bin. a pane of glass. and fluorescent light saves hundreds of dollars. By Hiram Cook
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Burn to Learn


Burn to Learn
David Pescovitz | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 6 pgs | 3 mb
The Crucible industrial arts school's community of practice
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Paper Water Bomber


Paper Water Bomber
Ewan Spence | Make Vol. 08- 2006 | Pdf | 2 pgs | 1 mb
Winged origami missile with front-load tank deliver wet payload.
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Clean Out a Dishwasher


Clean Out a Dishwasher
Thomas Arey | Make Vol. 08- 2006 | Pdf | 3 pgs | 1 mb
Salvaging components from unwanted appliances.
Download...
Mirror
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Kamis, Oktober 01, 2009

Make0907: DIY - Circuits


Make0907: DIY - Circuits
Pdf | 6 pgs | 2 mb
DIGITAL CLOCK
Programming PIC microcontrollers, part 3. By Sparkle Labs
TV SET SALVAGE
Nothing good on TV? Well, there's plenty of good stuff in a TV. By Thomas Arey
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Working with Carbon Fiber


Working with Carbon Fiber
John Wanberg | Make Vol. 09- 2007 | Pdf | 7 pgs | 3 mb
It seems as though nearly everything high performance these days boasts some amount of carbon fiber in its construction. Originally used in aerospace, carbon fiber has moved into the mainstream and can be found in luxury automobiles, mountain bikes, and sports equipment.

Some laptops and cellphones even use printed decals to simulate this lightweight material's cutting-edge look. The good news is that you don't need a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to work with carbon fiber composites. In fact, you can do it at home.

This article discusses some of the basics of carbon fiber construction and explains how to create a carbon fiber iPod case. All you need are some basic woodworking tools and skills, and the right materials. And because the same process also applies to fiberglass and Kevlar composites, these skills give you multiple ways of boosting your future projects to a new, level!
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Bare Metal Game Design


Bare Metal Game Design
Brian Jepson & Kipp Bradfor | Make Vol. 10- 2007 | Pdf | 3 pgs | 2 mb
Andre LaMothe's creations have a neo-retro bent that's hard to resist. Combining the sensibilities of game systems from 20 years ago with the DIY appeal of a microcontroller board. LaMothe's XGameStation Micro - a compact video game hardware kit - gave hobbyists the opportunity to write games that are closer to the bare metal than most programmers have been in decades.

The XGameStation Pico Edition 2.0 (makezine.com/xgamestation) takes you even closer. Modern game programming environments use collections of code libraries and high-level design tools to hide the complexity of the hardware from programmers. The Pico lets you duplicate the experience of writing games for a retro system like the Atari 2600: hardware and software fuse into a single platform, and in pushing the limits of that platform, you challenge yourself to come up with creative hacks that you would never need on today's ultra-powerful systems. Want to draw something on the screen? You'll have to understand something about video signaling first.
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Make0907: DIY - Imaging


Make0907: DIY - Imaging
Pdf | 13 pgs | 6 mb
ACTION MOVIE EFFECTS
Shoot a fight scene with a blood -spurting knife wound and a head smashing through a window. By Zack Stern
TILT-SHIFT PHOTOGRAPHY
Flexible lens makes scenes look miniature. By Dennison Bertram
ONLINE VIDEO PRODUCTION
Tips and techniques for daily content. By Andrew Michael Baron
OUTDOOR WEBCAM ENCLOSURE
Capture winter scenes from hanging sewer pipes. By Alek Komarnitsky
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Moldmaking


Moldmaking
Adam Savage | Make Vol. 08- 2006 | Pdf | 8 pgs | 1 mb
In principle, moldmaking is a simple process, but with every object you want to replicate comes a
new series of pitfalls, innovations, and solutions.

This article explains how to make a two-part, under poured block mold, which is a versatile and beginner-friendly type that's great for small, detailed objects such as jewelry, game pieces, masks, picture frames, and figurines. I learned this technique by apprenticing under some of the great moldmaking masters in the special effects industry, and this article reveals their unpublished tricks. I hope they don't get mad.

We'll make our mold out of silicone rubber, an excellent casting material, but it costs about $100 per gallon. This process uses as little of it as necessary, and it's important to follow all of these instructions, because a mistake can be costly. Then we'll cast our duplicates in opaque urethane resin (clear resin requires a more difficult process).
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