This is a great hack – “Usually, when you have to measure something and input the data into the computer, you buy a digital meter. But what do you do when you already have an old, trusty analog meter and don’t want to shell out for a new digital meter? You could just take the […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Vrogy made an evil robot hand/coathanger inspired by the Instructable we posted up. He writes – “It’s cut out of 1/4″ mild steel with an oxy-acetylene torch, by hand, then I bent it into shape over an old Vulcan anvil we have at the shop with a hand sledge.” – […]
Awesome, we posted up an old photo from 1895 of a “Railway velocipede” and of course, turns out, there are makers out there building and using these. Here are a few that were sent in. Railbike along the scenic Willamette River between Lake Oswego and Portland – Link. Krazmo writes – “This guy has well […]
Markus writes – “This miniature, 8-line home telephone exchange (PABX) works with standard telephones and features high-quality, user-friendly progress tones. Connection to telephones is via a two-wire unbalanced loop with a common ground. Only pulse dialling is supported although the exchange could be adapted to use a DTMF tone decoder.” Lots of schematics and photos […]
Jpmartineau writes in about the PVC light tent we posted earlier – “I loved the idea so I built my own. Using 1/2″ copper tubing instead of PVC.” – Link and translation.
RickB writes –“I wanted to do something with plastic CD’s besides adding them to the land fill – My solution was to use them build 3-D geometric constructions. I describe here how I used 12 CD’s to build a Dodecahedron. I also built a 32 CD trucated Icosahedron, 12 of the CD’s must be cut […]
Photos from the fourth annual student origami competition at MIT – [via] Link. Related: The Scorpion (with pattern) – Link. Brian Chans Origami page- Link. Other papercraft and origami projects.
