Here’s an Instructable on how to replace the button cell battery on a Nike+ receiver for as little as the CR2032 battery costs you. To get a replacement receiver costs $20. Replace battery in Nike+ receiver for under $5 [via Lifehacker]
Jeff Keyzer recently started doing surface-mounted soldering and wanted a way to keep the solder paste fresh (which needs to remain between 32-50°F). So he took an old Peltier cooler found in the trash and added a PID Controller. The results, a low-cost solder paste fridge for the shop. PID Controlled Solder Paste Fridge
Over on Cool Tool, Kevin Kelly has written a great review of the
In response to my posting of the hat-i-fied version of the Bleep Labs’ ThingamaKIT, MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder emailed me this cover from a 1949 Hugo Gernsbeck pub, Radio – Electronics. Thanks, Mark! More: ThingamaHat
This maker of the ThingamaKIT, from Bleep Labs, built it onto a hard hat. Why? Why not! The Foreman [From the MAKE Flickr photo pool]
I had a scrap piece of train track that I used as an anvil, but wasn’t as useful as this version. Mine was just a short piece of track, nothing fancy. This website shows you how to cut and shape the track into a classic anvil shape, making it much more useful. Read more about […]
cc Etsy is running a project, calling for videos of essential or favorite tools. This one takes the cake for me – a pedal-powered tablesaw demonstrated and explained by Etsy user Woodmosaics (from Spickard, Missouri). Incredible! He has a flickr set of it, too.
