Making ApplePi, Merging a Vintage Macintosh Plus With the Raspberry Pi
As a child of the late 70's and elementary school student of the 80's, I have always been fascinated by these little beige and platinum boxes and their tiny B&W screens. A few popped up beside the...
View ArticleMoonPi, the Rain Barrel Kids Play Rocket
Just after Halloween, my 3 year old daughter came to me and announced she wanted to be an astronaut and fly to the moon! She kept talking about flying a rocket to the moon for days on end, so...
View ArticleBRIO Bridge Underpass Modification
My daughter loves to play with BRIO wooden trains.Luckily I (or rather my mommy) had saved the set I had in my early 80's childhood.This year for Christmas we bought her a wooden drawbridge piece,...
View ArticlePLANToys Parking Garage BRIO Conversion
Hi Everyone,This is a little instructable showing how to simply add BRIO tracks to the PLANCity Parking Garage.Christmas morning, amidst all the confusion and excitement of two kids under the age of 4...
View ArticleVicPi - Revitalize your VIC20 for the modern computing age
Re-purpose a broken but classic Vic20 into a USB keyboard and a general purpose Linux machine!This instructable will show you how I transformed an off the shelf Vic20 (preferably not working) into two...
View ArticleFridgePi : Leftovers Never Sounded So Good
For years I've been Air Playing music from the iPhone to a stereo setup in the basement, with speakers wired back up into the kitchen. It works well enough, but drained my phone's battery and limited...
View ArticlePipe Shelving
Sick of box store beaver puke, press board shelving?Why not make some customized shelves out of metal, real wood and looks pretty unique?I needed a set of shelves in the "office", also known as...
View ArticleTwinkle Twinkle Christmas LED Tree Star
Merry Christmas everyone,My wife found a nice star for our tree, but wanted to have a few lights inside to give it some razzle dazzle root beer.This is a very simple project to add some happiness in...
View ArticlePolar Express Volume Modification
Our 4 year old son loves trains, especially steam trains.So when we saw the Polar Express G-gauge electric train by Lionel on sale, we asked Santa to grab it. :)Needless to say, he loves it and has...
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