Homemade lathe…from a lawnmower
RoryLondon in the MAKE forums writes – “My Uncle (aged 80) is a compulsive maker, he has made a Lathe from a lawn mower which might interest people.” Link.
Tools
DIY LCD panel kits for artists…
Bit Editions is offering a $235 LED kit for artists – you send off your own animations and then assemble the kit to display your LED-ified art. The displays are 12 by 14 inches in size. They contain one LED per square inch. Each LED can show eight levels of brightness. Driven by a microcontroller […]
The Black Hole of Los Alamos
Drew66 sent us in another “Maker’s heaven” store – “The Black Hole of Los Alamos, a recycler of “nuclear waste,” has the world’s most diverse stock of used scientific equipment, electronics, lab supplies, nuclear by-products, surplus items and manterials. We have over 17,000 square feet of pre-owned test equipment and laboratory supplies.” [via] Link.
Design It Yourself
Ami on Coolhunting has a post about a Maker-friendly book I think I’ll order “Taking the D.I.Y. revolution one step further, Design It Yourself is the indie entrepreneur’s bible for how to design a wide variety of business basics, from press kits to wall graphics.” If anyone has read it, post up in the comments […]
Make an igloo…
What can you do with the record breaking snow in NYC? Make igloos. This tool looks pretty handy, it’s a cubic enclosure on a pole made for forming your igloo building blocks. Looks like you could make your own on the cheap version from PVC pretty easily too. [via] Link.
Make your power tools smarter…
One of our readers pointed us to Eurekazone, it’s a company that makes low cost guide systems for power tools. The one I’m most interested in is the “Smart Router” kit, it attaches to your router turning it into a CNC-like tool. Anyone out there try these? Thanks Chuck! Link.
The GarageMahal
Bill Gurstelle from The Technology Underground Blog outlines the perfect Maker workshop – “In an earlier post, I brought up the idea of “the perfect home workshop.” or as one clever person put it, “the GarageMahal.” I believe that almost anything I could think of could be build in a shop like that.” Link. Also, […]