Here’s an idea that could be implemented ten ways to Sunday: a vented cat litter box. Alan Graham made one with a bathroom fan and some home automation gear. Check out his brief how-to on BoingBoing Gadgets, and follow his development in the TreeHugger forums. Via Hackaday.
TMT, is the new SMT… Mikest writes- “Thread Mountable Technology” I made a bunch of LED beads today after work. I found that a novel way to solder a large number of beads together at once is to use sticky tape and needles to hold the crimps and LEDs in place. Soldering one side first, […]
Nice article @ Forbes with a lot of familiar projects and faces from the world of MAKE/CRAFT and the DIY space! A blinking fashion statement… For all their talk of breaking glass ceilings, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have nothing on Leah Buechley. In the several years since she first sewed a circuit board to […]
In each volume of MAKE we have “major projects” these project pages are meaty step-by-step articles with start-to-finish photos, precise instructions and how-to learning that can range from making a VCR cat feeder to ariel kite photography. In MAKE volume 12 the projects are: Super Tritone Shop Whistle by William Gurstelle. This jazzy, compressed-air-powered whistle […]
By way of our resident coffee gadget guru John Edgar Park comes word of this… er… homebrewed temp-regulated, lever espresso machine, called the Robo-Pavoni. Robo-Pavoni ; learning to make an espresso machine from scratch
Discouraged by high prices and limited availability, Kentaro knew his chance at owning one of the much-sought-after Tenori-On electronic instruments were slim-to-none. Undaunted by those obstacles he created his own version – free of those extraneous LEDs, function buttons, chips, and well … electronics in general. Hey – everybody loves the feel of popping bubble […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Boldly Going Nowhere shares this simple recipe for making decorative chip cufflinks – Parts: Buttons, Wire and ICs 1) Cut a short length of wire and thread it through the button. 2) Strip the ends of the wire a small amount and solder to the middle of the IC. […]
