When Bill from I Heart Robotics decided he wanted a cleanroom, he did what any self-respecting maker would do — he built one from scratch. First, he put together a budget lab bench/enclosure from heavy duty MDF shelving. Next, he 3D printed some endcaps to couple a dust filter to a PC cooling fan. Finally, he used a shower curtain to close off the front.
INCREDIBLE PROJECT! SMEEON writes… Finally got around to adding together some video clips I took. I had a lot of people asking about what it does and how, so here is a little walk through. Photos here!
Everyone and their grandmamas are building cool clocks these days, and Viacheslav Slavinsky‘s “Strobeshnik” is another example. Viacheslav etched stenciled numerals into a HDD platter and strobed LEDs behind the platter to show the time. Strobeshnik uses stroboscopic effect to create the illusion of persistent numeric display. The hard drive platter has 10 digits, colon […]
Just this morning Cory Doctorow blogged this snapshot, taken by one “Joel,” of an ancient gear burial ground at a scrapyard near Charlotte, NC. I wonder how many wild-eyed steampunks they’ve had come sniffing around since then. [via Boing Boing]
Ranjit Bhatnagar is getting some really neat watery sounds from this tiny kalimba made from a tube clamp and some guitar wire clippings. Great for audio FX, just stick a contact mic on things and check out the sounds you get!
In honor of DIY Movie Making Month, I’ve been digging through the archives to de-blog some special-effects-related oldies-but-goodies from months past. Click on in!
I just got one of those indoor bike trainers. You know, the kind that props up the rear wheel against a heavy, resistance-providing wheel. The front of the bike rests on the floor, the rear axle is pinned, and there’s no balancing required. I didn’t think of it at first, but that’s not really how […]
