We all have little tricks and homemade ways to organize our workbenches, here’s a simple pegboard based organizer from Willd you can make yourself – Link. Related: MAKE workbench – Link. Make Podcast: Weekend Projects – Make a Workbench – Link. DIY Refrigerator workbench – Link. Workbenches @ MAKE – Link.
Kragen shows you how to mod the MiniPOV kit we carry in the MAKE store, this hack make the POV light sensitive… nice work! “…I wanted to add some input to it, since a device that turns LEDs on and off without paying any attention to its environment is useful for only a fairly limited […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member iZoo shows off the Gakken metal beetle kit (now assembled) – Link. I found this place that has some of them for sale, post others if you have a favorite. Related: Kits @ MAKE – Link. OSGG, kits and more! – Link.
Shawn from the Society for Amateur Scientists sent out this deal on DNA kits for SAS members (you can still get them if you’re not a member) – ‘Extracting DNA’ is by far the most popular experiment SAS has ever developed within the Labrats lessons or without. In fact, in the last few months hundreds […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member JohnKit writes – “Otona No Kagaku, or ‘Science for Adults’ is a ‘mook’ series published by Gakken in Japan. Each issue has includes a kit that goes along with whatever the issues topic is. This one deals with heat engines and comes with a low temperature Stirling engine. The entire […]
“This is a 12V bulb which is being overdriven to 14+V, to about 140 watts, with an estimated light output of about 4000 lumens. Compare that to a regular 2D MagLight, which is much, much less than 50 lumens.” Yup, that’s 12 1.2V NiMH batteries in there, which I guess means it’s rechargable too. I […]
We covered a similar DIY version of this device, it turns off something plugged in when it detects your PC is off – “Many computer peripherals use power even when they are turned off. The Mini Power Minder communicates with your PC via USB so when you start up or shutdown your computer, power to […]
