Brian writes in with the best and only resource I've seen that has most of the Head Mounted Displays / VR-Helmets in the market - "No instructions on how to make your own, but if you were going to make your own, you'd probably want to start here.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:48
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 Insect Lore showed off their live butterfly, ladybug, silkworm and other insect kits for education / home use. You don't need to catch the Butterflies, they actually ship live caterpillars.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:48
[dk] sent in the DVX project. It's a complete D-STAR implementation that's built around a digital transceiver chip, an ATMEL mcu and a digital voice compression chip.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:47
Cvesey has good how to for Makers across the pond with Zen micros - "Use an old cell phone charger and a usb socket extention cable to make a wall charger (this does not come boxed with the zen micro).
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:47
Here's an inline headphone amp using a MAXIM MAX9725 surface mount chip and some smd capacitors. Feel free to make yours look prettier than this one.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:47
This is nice, a squid shaped iPod cozy tutorial. . . good project to start out with if you're thinking about knitting. . . [via] - Link. .
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:47
JimK didn't want to pay a lot for a keyring cap for his shuffle, so he made his own, he writes - "I recently picked up two refurbished iPod Shuffles from Apple.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:47
MAKE Flickr photo pool member MH2 made an Apple Newton MP3 player, he writes "I download carefully prepared mp3 files to my outdated Newton MP 2100.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:45
[Jesse] sent in this headphone amp. It's really just a board with a dedicated smd headphone amp chip(MAX9725) and a pair of smd caps recycled from an old hard drive, but it does job.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:44
Nicolas built a USB-Cable for the new super-tiny iPod shuffle. Pinout and pictures here. . . - Link & translated page. Related:
Homemade iPod accessories, mods and more.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:44