This awful figurine from the SAW movies is actually a pretty cool 30 second sample/playback module that's easy to hack. You can buy them here for $2 a pop at allelectronics.com. It's almost wo...

One of the hassles of my MakerBot is having to raise and lower the z-stage (the up-down platform holding the plastic extruder) by tugging on the rubber belt. Tug, tug, tug, just to get the extruder in...

What a cute video about roasting, grinding, and siphon-brewing coffee. Style points for the Gershon Kingsley soundtrack, and it's not even Friday! Read more | Permalink | Comments...

I just built this nifty little tea timer from a recycled toaster. I wish I had thought of the idea myself, but this is a rebuild of an article from MAKE, Volume 04 by Johnathan Nightingale. I pulled ...

Adafruit's first open source Homeland Security non-lethal weapon project - The "Do-it-yourself Handheld LED-Based Incapacitator: THE BEDAZZLER". After attending a conference where the $1...

Something I'm excited about these days is rhythmically interfacing incompatible musical components like my analog modular synthesizer with a Casio SK1 Keyboard and a Barbie Karaoke machine. One to...

They aren't a lot of bells & whistles on this DIY logic probe, but it's still useful. It looks like you could make this simple probe for just a couple of bucks. You might even have all the...

After releasing the "Open source Homeland Security non-lethal weapon - The Do-it-yourself handheld LED-based Incapacitator" a few folks around the web emailed or posted saying "you can&...

Fascinated by MIT's Bokode data tag system, maker Matthew Borgatti decided to recreate the effect at home using easy to find materials. Bokode is a method MIT developed for tucking information (s...

!ATTENTION! I have made some changes to the schematic I posted this morning. The schematic posted below reflects these changes. -C1 has been assigned a value of 47uF -R19 has been removed. -An un...