DIY Charcoal Chimney
It’s barbeque season, folks. Many grilling experts recommend preparing your charcoal in a charcoal chimney. Aaron Newcomb made his own charcoal chimney for less than 20 dollars and documented how on his website.
DIY Projects
Blow keyboard bagpipe mod
Got a blow-powered keyboard but weak lungs? Take the Saturday’s Specimen blog’s advice and make a foot pump and bladder attachment for it which works like bagpipes to keep the tunes flowing.
Homemade jet engine
Students at SUNY Canton made this jet engine. They have pretty interesting documentation of a long design and build process. Please keep in mind this project is very dangerous!
Solar Bench
From the MAKE Flickr Pool: Flickr user 3D King made this nifty solar bench for charging up batteries used for remote astronomy. The photoset has some pretty nice closeups of key aspects of the construction.
HOW TO – Grow bioluminescent bacteria
Here’s something I did in biology class in high school: grow bioluminescent bacteria! Instructables user ScaryBunnyMan shows you how.
LED turn signal bike jacket tutorial
Remember this LED turn signal bike jacket we posted a while back? Well Leah Buechley made a tutorial for making your own. It has a button on each sleeve for activating the turn signals. The instructable includes a handy sewing/wiring diagram and lots of key insights into sewing a circuit for an LED turn signal […]
Figure out how to crack Sony’s PS2 controller code logically
Here’s a nice tutorial on doing some logic analysis of a PS2 console controller using a Lantronix LogicPort: 34 channel logic analyzer. This way you can find out exactly how much wizardry and engineering goes into making some of the most popular console controllers of all time. And perhaps after you’re done, you can build […]