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269 Electronics - Canal street, NYC

Posted: March 1st, 2008, 5:00pm CST

Tucked away inside a perfume, watch luggage and fake iPod store on Canal street is "269 Electronics" - if you're in NYC and need electronic tools at "ok" prices and selection 269 is one of the few places. They also have kits (mostly velleman kits) as well as some rare parts. Today the quest was for some NT42/44s and while they're not that hard to find they had them, score. More photos here - Link.

Related:
Argo electronics - Surplus electronics in NYC - Link.

Editor's note: This is the second of our "mobile posts" series which will appear on MAKE - sponsored by Windows Mobile. Only the links and voice that appear in the mobile post box (below) are part of the campaign on MAKE - pt.

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Making a steel sunflower

Posted: March 1st, 2008, 1:00pm CST

Jack Donnell writes in about this video from Andrew Crawford's blacksmith studio in Atlanta wherein he goes through the process of making a steel sunflower using a waterjet cutter and traditional blacksmithing techniques - Link. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]
Light bulbs and bikes make art

Posted: March 1st, 2008, 9:00am CST

This lightbulb / bike project uses color-shifting bulbs and a few BMX dirt bicycles to make a nice ambient environment. It was on display at the "World Space Party" held last year at NASA's Ames research center in California. Pretty cool

Lightbulb art project - Link
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DELO watch makes telling time fun again

Posted: March 1st, 2008, 7:45am CST

The DELO watch by Aeolab (Elise Co and Nikita Pashenkov) is the coolest thing to come to boring wrist watches since old school Pac-Man watches from the 80s. Check out the video for some pretty nice time change customization graphics you can set on the prototype.

DELO Watch - Link

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Turn your broken Rock Band kit around

Posted: March 1st, 2008, 7:41am CST

If you are like most people who play "Rock Band" religiously, chances are you've broken your kit and are debating whether or not to toss it and buy a new one or call Harmonix and ask for a refund. This hack shows a rather complex, but do-able way to fix your ailing plastic musical life.

Fix Your Rock Band Drums - Link
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Disposable camera ring light

Posted: March 1st, 2008, 5:00am CST

Divet has a nice Instructable on how-to make a ring light out of disposable cameras Looks like it works well, just watch where you put your fingers.

Build a disposable camera ring flash. Disposable cameras are discarded after the film has been removed. Photo labs often have boxes of them under the counter, waiting to be recycled. If you ask nicely, you can often get more than enough to experiment with. Try to get at least six for this project, all of the same type.

Disposable camera ring light - Link

Related:

Eye on Birmingham: The Ring - Link

DIY Ring light - Link
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