I found this little kitchen “hack” on Monkeybrad’s blog, the bloke who brought us the 55-gallon drum chair. Sort of an obvious use, but it had never occurred to me. I might use this in my garage. I love that method of stowing the lids on the handles, too. Putting Pots and Pans in their […]
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your workflow, […]
Here’s a kit company, called Phenostream, we’ve never heard of before offering an interesting-looking and very inexpensive AVR-based robot kit. As you can see from the photo, the AVRkitCar is very tiny. It sells for CDN$85, which is around US$70. I’ll see if I can’t get an evaluation unit from them and do a full-blown […]
Adafruit points to these kits for building weather station monitoring instruments (humidity, temperature, solar radiation sensor, lightening strike counter, and wind speed and direction) and other environmental test instruments (soil moisture). Hobby Boards weather kits
Lorin, of Electric Western, writes: People get excited about tubes, and they do some nifty things with them (even beyond audio). I’m trying to make working with them a little more accessible. So, I published a Power Supply design for tube experiments – with redundant safety and small size in mind, am providing a kit […]
Gareth @ MAKE found this simple setup for transferring your old film to digital. From the Flickr user svofski: A lens (or a macro lens, or a lens with extension rings) is inserted in the circular hole in front. A negative holder made of two sheets of vinyl with spacers is at the opposite end. […]
Mark posted this classic Devil’s Dictionary of a DIYer’s definition of tools on Dinosaurs and Robots: DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings objects across the room, denting the freshly-painted vertical stabilizer which you […]
