MAKE Flickr pool member Jeff M built this shop workbench using the instructions from Weekend Projects. In fact, it was our first Weekend Projects podcast (sniff, sniff), from July 7, 2006. Ah, that was a simpler time… Weekend Projects – Make a Workbench Workbench
Hipster Logic has released an iPhone electronics reference app, called, well… Electrical Ref. From their iTunes description: Have you ever wondered how many Ohms that resistor your holding is? Maybe wondered what the capacitance is of a ceramic disc capacitor with the code 103? Forgotten how to assemble a 555 timer circuit? Or wondered how […]
Das original! It’s the German-made Messograf caliper pen from Cleo Skribent. Built into the retractable ballpoint pen is a 4″ Vernier caliper that measures in increments of both 0.1mm and 1/16″. The pen also functions as a metric screw thread scale and a tire tread depth scale. Garrett-Wade carries them. Always Have Calipers On Hand
It’s Lucas again, our poster child for the MAKEcation Family Soldering Challenge. Here he is (note: safety glasses this time!) working on his second soldering project, a Drawdio. Lucas (and family) get a free Maker’s Notebook because they posted pics of their MAKEcation to the MAKE Flickr pool. The next four people who post their […]
I spotted these sketchbook notes by Austin Kleon on Flickr, of a presentation that Heather Gold gave for VizThinkU. I wasn’t at the talk, but it’s amazing to me how much of the gist of it these two pages seem to convey. Heather Gold on unpresenting for VizthinkU
Ancientwood, Ltd., is a US company that imports 50,000-year-old Kauri logs that have been preserved for millennia in peat bogs under New Zealand’s northern island. Besides its value as a conversation piece, ancient Kauri is mined, rather than logged, and no live trees are killed in the process. Kauri trees (Agathis spp.) thrive in New […]
German chemical giant BASF pioneered the technology to colorize the traditionally blah-colored world of manufactured wood products like medium-density fiberboard (MDF). Besides requiring no or little finishing, through-color MDF will not betray scrapes or scratches like painted material. It has been available in Europe for awhile now, but only relatively recently in the US through […]
