Archive for the ‘How-to’ category

Floppy Disk IR Camera Hack

February 9th, 2010

For the past seven years, I’ve had a broken digital camera lying around. It is still able to take pictures, but it is almost impossible to use on account of a broken screen. The fundamental problem is that sometimes the menu will accidentally get turned on, and not being able to see the screen, I [...]

Amplify Your Gamer Guitar

January 25th, 2010

Perhaps you have built a NES “cigar box”-style ‘Gamer Guitar’ (book p. 193) and learned to play a few tunes, but you have decided that it is just not loud enough. No matter how hard you wail on your guitar, its little acoustic chamber just can’t do that three-chord classic ‘Wild Thing’ any justice. What [...]