Kiteman has a very romantic Instructable on collecting real-life fallen stars – meteorites. In the Maker Shed: Find The Best of Instructables in the Maker Shed! Instructables.com has become one of the most popular magnets for makers and DIY enthusiasts of all stripes. Now, with more than 10,000 projects to choose from, the Instructables staff, […]
Check out this neat wearable toy piano made by instructables user mikamike, it’s hacked from a toy and uses conductive thread and fabric buttons. Via Fashioning Technology.
Instructables user action_owl created this fun keyless entry system using a classic NES, an Arduino, Processing, and a spare CD-ROM. Once activated NoKES (NintendO Keyless Entry System) will be blinking letting you know that it is alert and keeping guard. Once the Start button is pressed on the controller, the arduino starts recording what buttons […]
From the all-important step #2 of this Instructable: “Don’t Poison Gas Attack Yourself, etc.” Useful for anyone who wants to make welds without spending much: Welding is usually the easiest and quickest way to build something. You just put the parts next to each other and weld them. You don’t have to drill bolt holes […]
Eric, of Instructables, has been doing some great promotion for The Best of Instructables. Here he is on ABC New Now’s Ahead of the Curve. He’s also going to be on Good Morning America (ABC) tomorrow morning. The segment should be up on the website later in the day. Go get ’em, Eric! In the […]
Out of all the gadgets that James Bond has used over the past 40 years, he has never been given a laser weapon. While he was given an Omega Laser watch in GoldenEye and Die Another Day, he only used it to cut through the floor of a train and a section of ice. Sure […]
The Instructables book has a nice little write up in the NYTimes! Penelope Green writes- The duct tape roses I made over Thanksgiving were fetching (until they were gummed by the cat), but post-turkey lethargy prevented me from digging into the meatiest projects in “The Best of Instructables†(Make: Books; $34.99). One example: the concrete […]
