Terence on Ikea Hacker used “spare parts” from his Utby table legs to make an uber-industrial tape dispenser and paperclip holder. The two hacks here are a tape dispenser and a paper clip dispenser. With the spare parts from the Utby stainless steel legs I made the tape dispenser with nuts, bolts, and a roll […]
A Climbing Robot Based on Hot Melt Adhesion” by Marc Osswald and Fumiya Iida from the Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory at ETH Zurich, was presented at IROS 2011 [IEEE Spectrum via Hacked Gadgets]
NYC Resistor’s Shelby Arnold carved a pumpkin and added an LED and MP3 player to give it authentic sonic screwdriver effects!
I was late off the block for Halloween this year, and only decided yesterday that I wanted to pass out candy. I wanted a clear signal for trick-or-treaters that my house was open for business, and I didn’t want to spend any money. This is my last-minute solution.
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, some interesting process shots from user Shigeru Kanemoto, who’s used a Craft ROBO brand paper-cutting robot to prepare a stencil for applying solder paste to a PCB in preparation for SMT assembly. Uppermost, the stencil freshly cut; immediately above, solder paste applied. Cool idea, with a few more shots in Shigeru-san’s photostream.
It can be done! But rather less satisfying than the traditional method, at least according to intrepid experimenter Jack Chalkley. I would think a fresh pumpkin would smell pretty good under a laser, but Jack says no.
Redditor Quilbert painted her fingernails from left to right, zero to nine, black to white, to remind her of the resistor value color codes before a test (and, probably, forever afterward). No, she assures the predictable hecklers, it wasn’t cheating, as she was allowed a color code chart to refer to during the test, anyway. [via adafruit]
