DIY track lighting
Randy Sarafan needed some bright light for making (and documenting) projects, so he came up with this clamp-light-tastic curtain rod track lighting solution.
DIY Projects
How-To: Wooden shrink cup
I never knew you could create a watertight cup by placing a ring of fresh cut wood around a base and letting it shrink as it dries. Instructables user morfmir shows us how.
How-To: Glassworking techniques for bottles
Mike Firth is a hobby glassblower in Dallas, Texas. His site includes a great page on a variety of techniques that can be applied to reclaimed glass bottles, including several methods of cutting them. The site also describes more exotic bottle-working techniques like slumping, stretching, drilling, and blowing out.
How-To: Build your own IcyBall
The Crosley IcyBall (wikipedia) is a commercial early-twentieth century portable chemical refrigerator that runs without moving parts or electricity. Cooling is caused by the evaporation and re-adsorption of ammonia into a water-based solution, which is a spontaneous process that can be reversed by applying heat, as from a campfire. Authentic IcyBalls are valuable antiques, but […]
Oscilloscope text display from a single PIC
Ficara’s oscilloscope scrolling text display project uses just one PIC chip & no other components (well, battery/power supply of course :) – Scrolling text on oscilloscope, built with only one component: the Microchip PIC16F628A. The characters to be displayed are stored in EEPROM (ascii codes from 0x20 to 0x5f so numbers, capital letters and special […]
How-To: DIY mic pop filter
Instructables user d_malakian_69 writes: When you are an aspiring musician you don’t have a lot of money to buy expensive equipment and you have to record the best sounding demo with cheap recording tools. When I realized that popping is a common problem when recording vocals on any kind of mic, and when I saw […]
Humans, bees, wasps living together
From the MAKE Flickr pool Looks like Rob Cruickshank chills with bees on the daily! A series of trap nests for solitary bees and wasps, mounted in plexiglas on our back window. The nests are open to the outside, and have plexiglas covers, alowing us to observe the activity from inside the house, as well […]