This is a nice instructable that is built from parts headed for the garbage. Unfortunately I just gave away a compact radial arm saw because it wasn’t working very well, and I didn’t have much use for it. If I saw this instructable, I think I would have converted it to a drill. Learn how […]
The Noise Toy kit by Loud Objects is an easy build that delivers some impressive bit-bleeping goodness. After some simple soldering, you’ve got an excellent little synth-noise generator that can double as a programmable experimenter’s board – great for those interested in microcontroller sound synthesis. Next week, we’ll go into more detail regarding such programming […]
Nat @ CRAFT writes: Ponoko has a new 10 Day Design Challenge — this time on Puzzles! Create an intriguing and entertaining puzzle on a laser cutter within the next 10 days. Up to $5,000 in prizes are up for grabs! Photo above is by jared who created an edition of 100 puzzle kits. Find […]
If your all-time favorite simple machine is the helical inclined plane, if words like “panhead,” “countersink,” and “Pozidriv” have a mysteries hold over you, if your idea of fun is looking at vintage YouTube footage of Soviet-era screw-drive vehicles (and whose isn’t?), you’ll want to bookmark the singular hardware high weirdness that is the Screw […]
And with that, we’ve finally reached some sort of pod people (pod kitty?) singularity/assimilation situation in which every product in the known universe has been Hello Kitty branded. The outrageous Hello Kitty Power Sander [via]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool With seemingly no place left to work on his electronics projects, Adam turned his office closet into a stealthy concealable work area – neat idea! Now let’s see a fume extractor in there, eh? – Uncluttering with a Closet Workbench & photos Related: Simple workbench AND MEGA WORKBENCH ROUND […]
Make: Books indexer extraordinaire Patti Schiendelman sent us a link to this seriously cool UK catalog of “Weird, smart, strange, bizarre, electronic, technology resources and materials.” Hey, that sounds like our market demo! Shape Memory Polymer (SMP) The material is a cast thermo-setting resin with extraordinary memory properties. Most polymers have some ‘memory’ but this […]
