Knit Touchpad
Instructables user Pulsea made a trackpad device out of resistive fabric, and describes how it works very nicely. Via the Instructables newsletter.
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Presses roll on The Best of Instructables
Even as I type this, the inky pages of our forthcoming Make: Books title, The Best of Instructables, are fluming their way through giant printing presses. Having been a printer for many years, I can hear the sounds and smell the ink from here. The book will be released at Maker Faire Austin, Oct 18th […]
DIY: Solar Powered Jack-o-Lantern
This pumpkin certainly is orange green. This is a great instructable that uses an old solar light to make a safe, environmentally friendly, light-up pumpkin. If you want to be really green, make sure to make a pumpkin pie from the ‘guts’ and compost the jack-o-lantern when you’re done. More about a DIY: Solar Powered […]
How To: Low Cost Hobby Servo XY Table
I love CNC machines, especially homemade versions. This is a low cost XY table made from servos that you can buy at any hobby shop. Check out the instructable for a cool solution to the limited rotation of hobby servos and a lot more info. For this project, we wanted to build a lower cost, […]
Salt water Leyden jar
Warning: High Voltage Ahead. This Instructable shows you how to make an old-school high voltage capacitor, a Leyden jar, out of a jar of salt water. Even though this shows you how to make a small-jar capacitor, so the voltage is probably not lethal, it’ll still pack a wallop, so not something to be undertaken […]
How to: Joint boards without a jointer
Anyone who works enough with wood wants a jointer. What do you do if you need one, but don’t have one? Improvise! Check out this great instructable on joining wood without a jointer. A planer/jointer is not always available to the home woodworker who wants to do fine cabinetry. Look at the piece of cabinetry […]
HOW TO – sliding pants rack
Instructables user phantazn writes: I bought a wardrobe from ikea to store my work clothes in. While walking around at ikea, I came across a Pax wardrobe with a Komplement pants hanger on rails. Unfortunately, they did not make them in the size for the cheapo Kullen wardrobe I bought, and I sure as hell […]
