From the MAKE Flickr Pool: user fibra has refilled dental floss containers with soldering wire! Perfect for keeping your shop organized, but be sure not to mix it up with the one in the bathroom. For all the time it must take to wind this, I dare say there’s a market for these things.
Adafruit has released a GPS logging Arduino shield, freaking cool! Pop this on to an Arduino and you can make your own GPS logger, locative art projects & more! The kit is available here. This shield requires a GPS module (sometimes called an “engine board” or “engine module”) to receive the timecode data from GPS […]
Perfect use for an old hard drive, a grinder! via Hackaday. More: HOW TO – Making a hard drive laser oscilloscope. HOW TO – Build a 15000 rpm Tesla Turbine using hard drives … HOW TO – Make hard drive speakers. Hard drive art… Old hard drive orchestra. Make – Volume 12 – $1000 Wind […]
On Street Use, Kevin Kelly has a few pics of hand-made bike-building tools, spotted in bike shops in Rwanda. Rwandan Hammers
Now you can add “grinder/sander” to the list of goofy things you can do with a corrupted hard disk drive. Turn a Dead Hard Drive into a Grinder or Sander
The fine fellows at GeekDad wrote a lovely review of the Maker’s Notebook. Here are some excerpts: The front and back cover are pure cyan with a white dashed grid — basically, a canvas for your creativity (see photo). Maybe you want to color-code the covers by topic or date, maybe you just want to […]
I’m assembling a collection of gadgets and gizmos to exhibit at the AS220 Fools Ball (Providence RI, Saturday June 28, 8pm), and I knew the YBox2 had to be part of it. But I’m lazy and in a hurry, so instead of writing some a new widget in Spin, I wrote a fresh backend for […]
