DIY Stand-up desk
Here’s how to mod a regular desk into a stand up desk, handy for musicians – Link.
DIY Projects
Escargot Grand Prix – DIY Time lapse snail races
Windell writes – “How fast are your garden snails? Are they faster when you threaten them with garlic butter? How do they leave dotted lines in their wake? And what are you going to do with the built-in iSight camera on your new Mac? Answer all of these questions at once with Gawker, a cute […]
Fix an Xbox… with a mint tin
Dirkus writes – “This altoids tin can help you replace an Xbox’s hard drive without any pesky modifications to the Xbox. It reads the EEPROM off in a fraction of a second, so you can feed it to whatever Xbox drive restoring/locking program you’re using and drop a new drive in the console and get […]
Looking for a good soldering iron?
Looking for a good soldering iron? Check out the suggestions from other Makers out there, seems like Weller is a fave’ – Link.
PCB creation process
Bob posted up a follow up to the previous PCB post – his photo resist PCB process – “Don’t be scared away with this method. It’s easy! The only thing I do different is I use regular ordinary fluorescent lights ($8.00 at WalMart for a small fixture with bulb). Exposure times go from 90 seconds […]
Condo-Q (DIY Smoker)
Weconway wasn’t allow to have a BBQ at his condo, so he made a DIY smoker – “The bottom pot is a 14″ terra cotta pot from Wal-Mart. The hot plate inside was an all-metal 1500W unit I bought on E-bay. The Char-Broil grill thermometer and 13.5″ smoker grate came from Home Depot. I got […]
HOW TO – Make a high performance flying wing for $20
Chris writes – “Here are cool electric planes made from $4.00 Wal-Mart toy planes. The best plane for the money and easy to build, check out the gallery to see how many have been built.” – Link.