Matthias’ Lego domino row building machine takes the tedium out of laying out lengthy domino runs – and looks pretty smooth doing it. A motor from an old tape deck...
Posted by Collin Cunningham | Monday January 4th, 2010 6:42 AM
Categories: Fun & Games | 2 Comments
This great tutorial on building a wooden keyboard case is just the tip of the iceberg at Matthias Wendell's impressive "woodworking for engineers" site. [via Hack a Day]
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday December 9th, 2009 9:03 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Furniture, Hacks | 2 Comments
Clever woodworking project @ woodgears.ca, a Jenga pistol! Matthias writes - The game of Jenga was possibly designed to be a more contemplative and strategic game. But sliding those blocks...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday August 26th, 2009 6:41 AM
Categories: General | 7 Comments
Daniel Carnes writes in to tell us about this cool wooden RC tank built by Matthias Wandel. The site has lots of pictures of the build. Matthias also makes other...
Posted by Becky Stern | Monday June 30th, 2008 4:13 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, Makers | 2 Comments
This is a well-documented solution for storing unlimited caller ID phone numbers. The site contains schematics and the software needed to decode and store the data. Some time ago, I...
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Monday March 3rd, 2008 5:44 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics | 5 Comments
Woodworker Matt Wandel has a tool on his site for designing your own “low precision” gears (i.e. wood, phenolic plastic, etc) and printing them out onto paper templates for cutting....
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday August 13th, 2007 6:00 PM
Matthias Wandel has the coolest project ever, a binary marble computer - It had occurred to me that perhaps with an insane amount of perseverance, it might be possible to...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday June 22nd, 2007 8:59 AM
Categories: Art & Design | 8 Comments
Raph writes - This is a project to interface sensors to an USB port for collecting weather related data such as temperature. The firmware supports many different sensors and interfaces....
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Tuesday June 12th, 2007 2:00 PM
Categories: Electronics | No Comments
Raphael writes in - Someone gave me a Kenwood infra-red keyboard, designed for some Kenwood audio equipment. In order to make somthing useful with it, I built a receiver which...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday April 18th, 2007 7:00 AM
Categories: Electronics | No Comments
Raphael writes - Being able to play NES and SNES games on the Wii’s Virtual Console is great (Thanks Nintendo!), but it’s much more fun to do it with the...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 2nd, 2007 4:37 AM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games | 1 Comment
Jeff de Boer makes these amazing suits of armor for cats and mice… “From his parents’ garage, he worked continuously on his art, developing four distinct bodies of work: armour...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday January 5th, 2007 8:48 AM
Categories: Art & Design | 3 Comments
Raphael sent in this rad Atari style joystick/controller to USB adapter - “When playing games from the 8bit computer era, I believe that gameplay is better using a real joystick...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday December 4th, 2006 11:23 AM
Categories: Electronics | No Comments
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