Wondering how to get the best performance out of your homebrew WiFi antennae? This homebuilt SWR meter will help you measure and match the impedance of your antennae with your source. A good match will ensure maximum power transfer. Use the full schematics or you can just buy the meter from the site.
Lew’s wheels is a great resource for building your own gaming wheels. It has advice on components, mounting and wiring. Not satisfied with just wheels? There are plans for pedals and paddle shifters as well. Full pin charts and calibration advice are also available.
Yes, the “Best of WIN” are auto posted by someone else in the system and will probably continue to be posted long after I’m dead. If you are wondering, they turned off commenting because of us; someone seems to have deleted the comments though.
[toby whittome] is quite happy using GPS on his bicycle
Telemarketing counter-script [angrygoatface]
Adventures of iGuy, looks like he hasn’t gotten very far [Anonymous]
[preston] pointed us to these tshirts, I personally prefer Downhill Battle and Creative Commies
Build a hovercraft, somebody submit a better link [Howard]
Go cart links [Howard]
[tdstr] suggests building a centronics cable for your CVS camcorder instead of the Palm cable
While you’re at it you might as well change the screens [caRpespasm]
Homemade submarine [Billy Bones]
I’ll leave you with this XP alarm clock from [kth]:
Use the “Scheduled Tasks” feature that comes with Windows, but when the wizard asks for a program, instead supply an mp3 filename. When the time comes, the task scheduler will open the mp3 file with the associated app. I just tested it and it definitely works.
Wait, one more thing: What do you want to see on or change about Hack-A-Day? That should make for some interesting reading.
This macro photography rig is really incredible. The system uses two lasers to trigger the camera when photographing flying insects. The site has an extensive writeup of the trials and tribulations involved in this build. The D100 shutter ended up needing to be replaced by a faster one. Of course the article also has lots of example images.
[thanks unstable_geek]
When I saw the subject line “homebuilt Wimshurst Machine” I was thinking “sausage maker?” Turns out that a Wimshurst machine was an early electrostatic generator design. It is more efficient than its friction based predecessors. The one featured here was built in 1976, but the site has a ton of other designs. If you just want to learn the principle behind the Wimshurst, that’s there too.
I’ve used coral cache for anything I thought might go down. You can always remove the .nyud.net:8090 if there are problems.
[daguuy]’s Portable N64
USB to RS-232 dongle, circa 2003, there are probably cheaper versions now [Omega-x]
Ambigram generator [tX]
Search engine for free code [Caleb Jones]
Speech recognition circuit [M@RK]
Make a solar cell
Molex pin removers [Omega-x]
Water heater sized subwoofer [GRimo]
OSX in your browser [Voteccow]
Bubble torch [Omega-x]
PS2 on/off with door chime [digitalFX]
Dual boot OSX/XP [XyTec]
Ghetto PC [J to the D]
[Tea Vui Huang] Podcast to AMR converter for mobile phones
The kernel in color [angrygoatface]
[53tab5] has built a couple of these line follower ‘bots before
[Bill Dudley] decided to get on the modified FM transmitter bandwagon
TV in your drive bay [dama9ed]
Rockbox open source firmware for your Archos [vor]
If you missed [mark]’s comment yesterday, here is Ben & Jerry’s Flash thermoacoustics presentation
Thanks for hookin’ a brotha’ up!
Ipodlinux doesn’t officially support Linux on the second generation Ipod mini yet. [Reid Burke] decided to give us a full write up of the installation process. He says it really isn’t that hard, but decided to save you the trouble of piecing five pages of information together. Have a look and join the club.
