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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 02:12 am
Ian made an awesome Nixie tube ornament -
“The Nixie Tube Ornament is a homage to the light-up&motion ornaments from the early 90’s. The ornament looks cool on a tree and makes a great gift. Finally, a use for IN-12/15 top view tubes!
I used an IN-15A symbol nixie in this ornament. An IN-12 works great too.” - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 02:12 am 
FrankG writes -
“This installment details winding the coils, laying out the 3-phase stator, some resin casting, and the addition of a Jack-Shaft to bump the rotor speed to 6.5X the pedal RPM.
As well as some suspect mathamatics and more questions…” - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 02:12 am 
Riskable writes -
“This Christmas my wife gave me two items from the Make Store… The “Build your own electronic game” kit and the POV kit. I soldered it all on Christmas day in the time it takes to watch Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.” - Link & poem!
If you made some stuff over the holiday, let us know in the comments, or the MAKE photo pool.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 02:12 am 
Here’s the how-to from one of 11 Spring’s graffiti pieces, Q-Branch writes -
“Low-cost, illuminated signage for todays responsible citizen courtesy of the GRL and the Eyebeam OpenLab. This tutorial will explain the tools and processes we used to combine LED christmas lights, plexi-glass and rope to make our own low-power signage on the cheap.” - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 02:12 am
Instructables TV is back again this week with a handy video on knife sharpening… - Link & QuickTime (M4V).
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 02:12 am 
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes -
“Milton Lau and his students in Hawaii built this (non-baker’s) dozen set of holiday ornament gingerbread readerboard people. These were built using the holiday electronics kits.” - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 01:12 am 
Some folks go caroling on Xmas, others release open source hardware projects, like this one… A RF jammer -
“This website details the design and construction Wave Bubble: a self-tuning, wide-bandwidth portable RF jammer. The device is lightweight and small for easy camoflauging: it is the size of a pack of cigarettes.
An internal lithium-ion battery provides up to 2 hours of jamming (two bands, such as cell) or 4 hours (single band, such as cordless phone, GPS, WiFi, bluetooth, etc). The battery is rechargeable via a mini-USB connector or 4mm DC jack (a common size). Alternately, 3 AAA batteries may also be used.
Output power is .1W (high bands) and .3W (low bands). Effective range is approximately 20′ radius with well-tuned antennas. Less so with the internal antennas or poorly matched antennas. “
Wave Bubble - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 01:12 am
Thomas writes -
“This was made by a friend of mine, in a few hours, with a microwave oven motor. A new version is already in the pipe to follow this prototype.” - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 01:12 am
Check out this BB canon scan from a 1963 Popular Mechanics magazine [via] - Link
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 01:12 am
The latest Instructables TV is out! Use home made devices to go kite ice butt boarding anywhere there is ice, wind and plenty of room, Tim writes -
“Your screaming steel blades carve the ice.
Your straining kite hurls you along at incredible speeds.
You are mere inches above the ice. Or suddenly wiping out all over it.
If polo is the “sport of kings”, then surely kite-ice-butt-boarding is the sport of gods.
This week’s Instructables TV episode shows you what you’ve got to do this winter.” - Link.
You can also get the video (MOV) here - Link.
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