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.
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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 […]
How-To: Rubber hose chair
Instructables user wholman made this chair from some plywood, a rubber air hose, and some long pieces of all-thread.
How-To: Acoustic rain gauge (disdrometer)
Wow, neat, Instructables user nusnel shows us how to make an acoustic rain gauge: For a project at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) we are building cheap, durable acoustic rain gauges, known as disdrometers. These devices “listen” to the rain and calculate the rain rate from the acoustic signal. But you can also listen […]
How-To: Pressure-sensitive glove fingertips
Another great soft circuit tutorial by Hannah Perner-Wilson: Pressure sensors on your fingertips intended for use by children and their piano teachers to visualize the difference between “p” piano (soft) and “f” forte (hard). The pressure sensitive layers of fabric in the fingertips of these gloves are stretchy so that they can fit tightly. The […]
Kickball planter
Randy Sarafan at Instructables writes: Not too long ago, the beloved Instructables kickball was popped by an overzealous dog. As we are not prone to ever throw anything away (ever), it just lamely drifted around the office as people slowly kicked it about in dissatisfaction from spot to spot. This continued for a while until […]
How-To: Build a Lego microtome
A microtome is a laboratory machine normally used to slice extremely thin samples of soft specimens for optical microscopy. If you’re one of those folks who could care less about optical microscopy, it also has culinary applications. I quote from the sacred text of GoodFellas: In prison, dinner was always a big thing. We had […]
