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The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.

iPhone Timelapse Video App

You know those really cool timelapse videos of project builds you always thought you could do, but never really got around to making because your camera didn’t have a timelapse setting or installing custom firmware was too much of a hassle? Well, if you’re sporting an iPhone and have the means to mount it over your work area for the duration of the build, you might want to check out Honey Build app from Replicator, Inc.. Create timelapse videos from just a few seconds or minutes, to sequences that span hours or days. Just set it and get to working on your project. When you’re done, it will automatically build a video for you to share.

Continue Reading December 23rd, 2011 Adam Flaherty2

Best of MAKE: Toolsday 2011

“Toolbox” has been a staple of MAKE magazine since Volume 01, back in February, ’05. We’ve done plenty of online tool reviews, too, since then, but somewhat informally, and it’s only this year that we decided to launch a regularly-scheduled, official online weekly tool review column. When we were gearing up, back in April…

Continue Reading December 22nd, 2011 Sean Michael Ragan2

Rolling Tool Table from Stacked Tires

Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this clever idea for recycling dead tires (or storing new ones) from Pittsburgh’s Joe Katrincik. It’s two smaller plywood circles for the base, a larger one for the top, 6 castors, 6 screw eyes / eyebolts, and 3 ratcheting tie-down straps. I bet if one were to counter-bore the top holes, a bit, and used T-nuts instead of hex nuts to secure the top eye bolts, one could avoid having the nuts sticking up above the work surface. If one thought it mattered.

Continue Reading December 21st, 2011 Sean Michael Ragan2

“The Wolfe’s Den” Treehouse in the Catskills – Tiny Yellow House

I designed, pre-fabricated, hauled, and then re-assembled a treehouse I’ve dubbed “The Wolfe’s Den” (Wolfe being the last name of the woman I built it for), and luckily had Steven Sherrick of Modern Vintage Productions to help document the laborious process.

Continue Reading December 21st, 2011 Relaxshax2

Zero to Maker: My First Maker Holiday

This year marks my first Maker Holiday Season. As I wrote about in my last column, it’s given me an opportunity to reflect on what the last few months have meant. It’s also opened up a whole new world of possibilities: gifts I can make!

Continue Reading December 20th, 2011 David Lang4

Tool Review: Q Knot Reusable Ties

I was very interested when I got the PR about the Q Knot reusable rubber ties from a company called UTWire. They work on the same principle as standard plastic zip-ties but they can be fairly easily pulled apart and reused. If you crossed a rubber band with a zip-tie, you’d get a Q Knot.

Continue Reading December 20th, 2011December 3rd, 2015 Gareth Branwyn

Ultra High Performance Double Pendulum

We covered Flickr user yamamo2’s (and his father’s) first high-performance double pendulum build back in 2009. The first version would swing for about 10 minutes, without added energy, after being started. The latest version swings for fully twice that, as the embedded video—all twenty-two minutes of it—thoroughly demonstrates. I haven’t seen any info about the design changes required to achieve this level of performance, unfortunately.

Continue Reading December 19th, 2011 Sean Michael Ragan2

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