Honor the Exotic Pliers
Please don’t call them “wire strippers.” The more PC term is “exotic pliers.”
Tools
DIY Portable Electronics Tool Kit
Dustin White of the i3 Detroit hackerspace created this instructable on how to assemble your own electronics tool kit. Dustin suggests everything from packets of Sugru to desoldering braid, a sharpie, a dental pick, a multitool, as well as the gotta-have multimeter and soldering iron. How about you? What do you keep in your portable […]
Solid Copper Rescue Tool
After mulling it over for several hours, crunching the numbers, and running an exhaustive cost-benefit analysis, I am forced to conclude that the amount of serious demolition, vehicle extraction, and/or fire-fighting work I perform under explosive-atmosphere conditions, in an average workday, does not justify the expense of this gorgeous hand axe, made of non-sparking beryllium copper alloy, from NGK Berylco of Sweetwater, Tennessee. But, damn, I tried.
Easy to Make MDF and Timing Belt Gears
This has to be one of the cheapest and easiest ways to create gears for medium-sized weekend projects. In a pinch, cut some MDF about the same size as the gear you want to make and then glue a piece of automotive timing belt around the circumference.
Tool Review: Diamond Matrix Polishing Pad Set
Last spring I got it in my head to make a concrete bowl with broken bottle glass aggregate. I had a bunch of blue and green glass bottles on-hand, and broke these up by submerging them in a big galvanized washtub and bashing them with a fence-post driver. I had a book with a broken-glass […]
“Design For Hack” in Medicine
MacGyvering nurses and Legos are helping to create MEDIKits for better health care.
How Toys Can Save Lives on CNN’s The Next List This Sunday (April 1)
CNN’s The Next List this Sunday, April 1, will profile Jose Gomez-Marquez, who hacks toys to make inexpensive and flexible medical equipment for developing countries.
