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 views: 9  In this podcast, Bre Pettis shows you how to set up a breadboard for power and then play around with electronics on it Note: In the podcast, I mention Charles Platt's article is from Make: volume 11. Its actually in Make: Volume 10.  views: 14 Bre Pettis teams up with Hardware Hacker Joe Grand to show you how to integrate LCDs and GPS into your electronics projects. Then they put these two things together on a basic stamp and create a portable GPS tracking system and go geocaching!  views: 5 One of the great things about these little bots is that you can make them from scavenged materials. Use parts from broken electronics and bring them back to life as little robots!  views: 8 This Week Bre Pettis shows you how to make Mousey The Junkbot. This project was in Make: Volume 2 and was conceived and written by Gareth Branwyn of streettech.com. Mousey is a mouse made of scavenged materials. If you're not a scavenger you can also get the parts from solarbotics.com.  views: 9 During World War II, GIs in the field built really amazing simple radios to listen too. These were made with materials that they could get their hands on and were small enough to carry around in a big pocket. You can modify this design if you want to set it up so that it's tuneable too! To see all the plans, go to makezine dot ...  views: 7 This week, Bre Pettis teams up with Mitch Altman and George Shammas to make a little 3x3x3 cube made of little LED lights that you can program with any kind of animation that you like! You can get more information and detailed instructions at makezine dot com slash podcast.  views: 5 The Awesome Electronics Workshop is back! Joe Grand and Bre Pettis show you how to integrate RF modules into your projects.  views: 5 This kit simulates life with little LEDS! Learn more at http://makezine.com/podcast  views: 6 Make a flaming fireball shooter just like magicians use. Save $$ and MAKE your own! Awesome pyrotechnics effect! Safe to use indoors and out!  views: 6 Make a humane, compressed-air-powered bug trapper that removes unwanted, tiny pests from your world .  views: 7 Take used styrofoam and reuse it to make cool new things with this easy 5-Minute Foam Factory. Thanks to Bob Knetzger for the original project in Make: Volume 16.  views: 8 Turn two salad bowls into a spherical array, ball of sound with amazing results. Pick up Make: Volume 11 for other great projects.  views: 5 Make a glittering LED constelation jammed in resin! This is Part 1 of this two part project.  views: 11 Reuse a crashed hard drive or two for a set of wind chimes. Easy to make and sound great.  views: 8 Modify an ordinary solar powered yard light and create a nightime chorus of crickets that sing through the night! Fun weekend project!  views: 10 We'll base the project around a digital clock radio and a light gun for gaming; huge selections of both of these are available inexpensively second-hand, with many beautiful and well-designed examples. To enable our FPSI (First Person Shooter Interface), we'll outfit the gun with five tilt sensors, arranged at different angles ...  views: 7 Learn how to modify the classic Rumble Robot toy with an Arduino. Thanks go to Dino Segovis for this Weekend Project from Maker Faire.  views: 10 This week, Bre Pettis takes you to the power tool drag races in Seattle. Learn how to make a racer!  views: 11 Use an Arduino microcontroller to sense invisible electromagnetic fields using wire, a resistor, and an LED. Aaron ALAI's EMF detector project is awesomely simple to make and fun to use. An upgraded version can be built using an LED bargraph for more 'meter-like' functionality.  views: 13 Take an old outdated PS/2 or USB ball mouse and turn it into a handy multimedia controller.  views: 38 Are you sick of blaring TV's? Wish you could do something about it? Well you can with the this devious ultra-high-power version of the popular TV-B-Gone. Get yours at www.makershed.com  views: 21 Get rid of your batteries and power your remote control with just a shake. Get the PDF for this project here:  views: 13 Make some crazy musical noise with this 555 Timer based Noisemusick Kit. Watch the video to see it in action and pick up your own at the Maker Shed.  views: 18 Install a sneaky bug in an old vcr tape case. Get the PDF for this project here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009... More great projects at http://www.makezine.com  views: 23 Use a cellphone camera for espionage that captures long-distance secret activities!  views: 23 Having trouble with people snatching your stuff? Did someone take your lunch from the company fridge? Here is an inexpensive, sneaky gizmo you can make to keep those sticky fingers away.  views: 25 This Weekend Project is the USBattery from MAKE Magazine Volume 16. Conceal a flash drive in a AA battery!  views: 15 Secretly shoot your voice across the room in stealth mode on the beam of a laser!  views: 18 Watch as an ordinary Sharpie Pen comes alive! You can make it move with your mind...or can you?  views: 19 Get vintage sounds from time-warp radio with this fun "back to the future" project. Top 40 songs from the 70's don't sound the same on big stereo systems or headphones but they will now!  views: 17 Modify a hot glue gun and shoot streams of sticky web goo all over your haunted house!  views: 20 Here is a brand new version of the popular potato cannon built by the DeRose family and shown at this years Maker Faire.  views: 57 Turn a scanner into a camera that takes some pretty wild photos. An easy way to have fun with an old scanner!  views: 17 The good old Zip Drive introduced by Iomega in late 1994 served it's purpose as a medium-capacity removable disk storage system until obsolescence kicked in as it was replaced by flash drives as well as rewritable CDs and DVDs. Here are a few things you can do to give new life to that outdated drive.  views: 84 Shoot streams of toilet paper in midair. The Streamerator is the ultimate TP machine!  views: 162 Take an old AM/FM transistor radio and make a quick modification so it picks up Air Traffic Control, Air Shows and other Civil Aviation Band transmissions. Amazing!  views: 93 Volume 01 - Phones: SIM card & payphone hacking. Learn how a SIM card works (the small card inside GSM cell phones) make a SIM card reader, view deleted messages, phone book entries and clone/crack a SIM card. Modify a "retired" payphone so it can be used as a home telephone and for VoIP (Skype). Then learn how to modify the ...  views: 172 Make a decent sounding speaker from a disposable styrofoam plate. EZ and cheap project with surprising results!  views: 183 Candy tin fume absorber helps keep your air clean and your lungs healthy. Get the PDF for this project here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009... More great projects at http://www.makezine.com Credentials:
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