The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Leevonk has an Instructable on making your own fablab of sorts – A good way to make 3D plastic models easily.. You’ll need: an EGX-300 engraver machine (we will use it for milling). I saw it on ebay for $2000 at some point. If you buy from Roland, costs $5000 unless you’re using it for […]
Ark writes – “How to build a simple propeller toy from LEGO parts. This simple project only requires two parts: 1×2952 Propeller 2 Blade 9 Diameter 1×3708 Technic, Axle 12” – Link.
Erin writes – “This weekend, during the fabulous power tool races, was the incredible annual Kinetics Sculpture Challenge in Boulder, CO. These hand-made, human-powered crafts have to face an incredibly difficult over land-and-water-and-combinations-thereof course, which the fastest team completed in hour-and-a-half. Three-and-a-half hours later the last team to make it under the deadline drug their […]
If you saw our coverage of the Powertool drag races and you’re still hungry for more, Scott Beale from Laughing Squid has a ton – Link. Previous: Power tool drag races coverage – Link. Power tool drag races coverage video! – Link.
Whew! The Power Tool Drag races are intense – Metal, electricity, power tools and a lot of duct tape. Here’s the photo set so far (66 photos) – we’ll do a round up with more photos later! Link. Also – Direct link to MP4.
The Power Tool Drag race is this Sunday in San Francisco, the MAKE team will be there filming, taking photos and covering the event! (We’re going to try and post videos “live” to Flickr/YouTube/MAKE). If you want to meet up, post in the comments or drop me a note! – Link. Sunday, May 7th, 2006 […]
While this might not be that useful for most folks, it’s always good to hear about someone fixing something as opposed to just tossing it… John sent in his how to on fixing a burned-up Durabrand PVS-1960 portable DVD player – Link.
