From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
Stickman has a pretty spiffy homemade LEGO flash drive – “It uses a 128MB Dick Smith electronics USB flash drive. The casing of the DSE drive was easy to remove and from there it was a matter of resizing the circuit board (it was slightly too large to fit inside a 2×4 Lego brick) by […]
Plans from 1965 for making a kid sized earth mover – “These plans are for a kid’s sandbox backhoe plans. Half-pint sidewalk superintendents will go ape for this boy-size, rugged, easy-to-build digger. A healthy lad can do wonderful things with a little loose dirt but a boy with his own backhoe is an earth-moving hero. […]
Davidmerrill writes – “Have you ever looked at a chip that’s smaller than your fingertip, and has no pins, and wondered how you could ever possibly hand-solder it?” Here’s how! – Link.
RadioRental writes – “Headphone jacks are half mechanical and half electrical. General use on the mechanical side can have detrimental effects on the electrical which is designed to carry current not physical load. If you find the audio cutting out when you wiggle the headphone jack then there is a very simple fix, re-solder the […]
bf5man sent us this great inside look at how they make glass beads in West Africa. From the site, “The powder glass technique of making beads is highly developed in West Africa where it’s been in use for centuries. Glass is ground into a powder, poured into moulds and baked in kilns. Often recycled glass […]
Here’s a fully functional LEGO vending machine, it can detect different types of coins and dispenses 3 kinds of treat, source code included – [via] – Link.
Jon writes – “This is an electronics kit I had as a kid. Inside each interlocking translucent block is an electronic component, ranging from a resistor to a basic amplifier. This is seth came with 54 assorted blocks, test leads, battery case, meters, microphone and more. The manual contains 160 combinations for these blocks ranging […]
