DIY Projects

Hot dog machine

Hot dog machine

Drew has reached an important milestone in DIY food reconstitution/tube-steak fabrication – Shown in this video is a lab-scale thermal depolymerization unit. It uses steam to break up food waste, and reconstitutes it into hot dogs. The finished product is nearly indistinguishable from a store-bought hot dog, and hey… at least you know what it’s […]

BoxMaker makes any size box template

Ryan O’Hara writes in about BoxMaker, a postcardware app for making boxes. From the site: BoxMaker is a little Java application that can generate the outlines for a box to be out of some material with a cutting device (ideally using wood/acrylic on a lasercutter!). You tell it the dimensions of the box (width, height, […]

Carbon fiber draft tower

Carbon fiber draft tower

Raelx made this absolutely sick draft tower for his keggerator with carbon fiber. DIY alert, however, the guy works for Cannondale, so he’s got primo access to supplies and tools. He includes some nice construction photos, too. Related: Carbon fiber Macbook Air Making a Carbon Fiber Bike frame From the pages of MAKE: Working with […]

The elder lemon joule thief

The elder lemon joule thief

From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Like some sort of cyborg fruit-turned-electronic hedgehog – Flickr member s8’s 2-week old lemon-powered joule thief is showing its age. Hmm. I wonder if it smells as good as it looks. – middle-aged lemon Related: HOW TO – Tiny AVR Microcontroller powered by fruit Make a Joule Thief – […]