Project idea: things to do with old TVs

| June 19, 2009

As you upgrade to digital and HD in your house those old TV sets can make cool projects.

Media-Burn-by-Ant-Farm

We are down to one 13-inch “old” (non-digital) TV set in the house. I also have a Samsung 17-inch LCD monitor that is an old-style analog tuner.

As Usual, MAKE Magazine has bunches of projects:

Ask MAKE: surplus TVs from the DTV switch

Halloween projects… for your TV!

Project ideas: cool kind-of steam punk cars and robots

| June 17, 2009

Found at MAKE blog: Baron Margo makes all kinds of whimsical metal objects of art.

see more at BaronMargo.com

Steampunk USB flash drive

| June 10, 2009

An interesting project would be a series of modified USB flash drives like this one made into a Steampunk artifact but there are lots of other things you could make.

SteamPunkUSB

I found this at ETSY: 16GB Mechanical Memory Key

Build a dedicated streaming video PC

| June 9, 2009

A nice, quick project would be a dedicated streaming video PC designed to be a living room internet-connected DVR hooked up to your TV capable of playing DVD and Blu-Ray disks, other digital formats off of removable disks or hard drives, and streaming internet sources like Hulu, Netflix, and YouTube.

Maximum PC has a great how-to for this project:

Maximum PC: How to Build a Hulu Desktop + Boxee PC

A $14 video camera stabilizer

| June 9, 2009

This is from MAKE magazine and we need one of these for our film class.

Found at the MAKE blog: Weekend Project: $14 Video Camera Stabilizer

Parts list is here.