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Nixie Tube Sudoku Puzzle

George Burnett — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:30:16 +0000

Based on the popular Japanese puzzle Sudoku and inspired by ArduNIX and ogi lumen Trashbear Labs built a replica of the game using 81 nixie tubes and some modified opensource code. The code is available via a DropBox shared link. Check out the video of their creation recursively solving the puzzle automatically.

Source [Trashbear Labs]

Amazon Kindling

George Burnett — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:42 +0000

Rob from the always-entertaining-but-hard-to-describe science/prank/DIY/investigative journalism site Cockeyed.com had the brilliant idea of making an Amazon Kindling– a wireless wooden e-book (which uses no electricity….), and we were pleased to help out. You can read his writeup here. You can buy your own on eBay too.

DIY $10 Macro Photo Studio

George Burnett — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:07:57 +0000

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Cardboard box + Tracing Paper + Movie Poster + Tape = $0.00

Full article availabe here [strobist]

LED Bike Wheel Images

George Burnett — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:01:33 +0000

Spoke POV is an easy-to-make electronic kit toy that turns your bicycle wheel into a customized display! The project includes a free schematic design, open source software for uploading and editing stored bitmap images, and a high-quality kit with all the parts necessary to build your own.

Guide to make your own LED bike wheels at Instructables.

DIY :: iPod Super Dock Part 2

George Burnett — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:19:11 +0000

Will O’Brien has posted part 2 of the How-To: Design your own iPod super dock

DIY iPod Super Dock :: Part 1

George Burnett — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:10:08 +0000

Been trying to improve on that worthless iPod dock? Want to connect your gadgets together in a Lego like formation or perhaps you have been trying to figure out how to upload ring tones from you iPod to your phone! Well here is where you start as this article is part 1 of a series of how-to docs complete with spec, diagrams and control code libraries for your hobbyist needs.

Happy hacking!
Similar &/or Related Projects:

http://ipod.hackaday.com/entry/1234000753073434/
http://pinouts.ru/data/ipod_pinout.shtml
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/11/diy_ipod_breakout_dock.html
http://panocamera.com/2005/Blog_Nov%2025,%202005_11-28.html

DIY Bottle Cap Tripod

George Burnett — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:44:34 +0000

It seems the do-it-yourself bottle cap tripod is the talk of the internet today. Jake Ludington of Jake Ludington’s MediaBlab, has created a step-by-step instruction set for creating a digital camera tripod from a Pepsi bottle. He got the idea from the Japanese retail version of the same product.

There is an article on Make that was inspired by this project as well call “HOW TO – Mounting a camera to your bike” which is pretty cool as well.

Funny how these ideas start feeding from one project to the next.
hrmmm… bicycle shopping cart tasticness!

Mac Mini Carputer + iTrip

George Burnett — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:57:36 +0000

The owner of this Mazda Protege sedan decided that he needed to get some MP3 playback in their vehicle, stat! Instead of purchasing your run-of-the-mill MP3 playing headunit they decided to take their Mac Mini and mod an iTrip FM transmitter directly to the Mini.

This is a really cool hack so check out their full Flickr photo set.

Universal iPod Remote Hack

George Burnett — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:13:46 +0000

O’reilly has posted an excerp from their iPod and iTunes Hacks bookon their digital media blog. This is a great how-to for people that are trying to consolidate their remotes into a single device, the iPod!

This article even tells you how to upload the controller sounds and so that you can get the same effect while using the iPod for you channel changer, xbox, DVD player controllers. This is some pretty cool stuff. I had the chance to take a look at this book before and if you liked this hack you should really get a copy of this book as it is really filled with a lot of great hacks.

You could also take a look at this book on O’reilly’s Safari Bookshelf project, which allows you to read and fully search all of their published books as well as some of their subsidiary publications.