Vibrating conveyor moves objects without a belt
Here's a neat contraption: a vibrating conveyor that can move objects up a ramp without using a belt.
Posted by Matt Mets | Thursday September 16th, 2010 2:10 PM
Categories: General | 6 Comments
Something I want to learn to do…
Building an automatic chicken waterer
One of their latest projects has been to build an automatic chicken waterer, which consists of a large barrel for water collection, a sturdy stand, and a commercial water bowl.
Posted by Matt Mets | Tuesday September 14th, 2010 10:29 AM
Categories: Furniture, General | 3 Comments
DIY ultraviolet laser made from scrap aluminum
Nyle Steiner of sparkbangbuzz built a Simple Homemade T.E.A. Laser using some pieces of scrap aluminum and a moderately high voltage power supply.
Posted by Matt Mets | Saturday September 11th, 2010 12:46 PM
Categories: Electronics, General, Science | 3 Comments
How-To: Make a rustic mallet
This Rustic Mallet video and step-by-step how-to over on Borganic.net is amazing.
Posted by shawnconna | Wednesday August 18th, 2010 11:15 PM
Categories: Craft, Energy, General, Tools, Workshop | 1 Comment
Mitch Altman rocks!
I’m here at the MAKE magazine booth at Maker Faire Detroit, and across from us is the Learn to Solder area, run and manned by Mitch Altman and Jimmie Rodgers....
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Sunday August 1st, 2010 8:37 AM
Categories: Education, General | 2 Comments
"Primitive" knife knapped from fiber optic glass
My buddy Mike Cook of Portland, Michican, has been knapping for 30 years. It shows. And while I'd probably never dare to use such a knife for fear of damaging...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday July 16th, 2010 8:39 AM
Categories: Art & Design, General | No Comments
Visual structure of a zen rock garden
Just ran across this fascinating little paper published in Nature back in 2002 by Gert J. Van Tonder, Michael J. Lyons, and Yoshimichi Ejima. In it, the authors apply a...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday July 14th, 2010 6:01 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Energy, Gardening, General, Science | 2 Comments
Homemade blow-molding gun
Blow-molding (Wikipedia) is an thermoplastic forming process in which a hot polymer pre-form is injected with gas to press it against the inside of a hollow mold. It's how most...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday July 1st, 2010 9:25 AM
Categories: Electronics, General, Science, Tools | 1 Comment
How-To: Anodize aluminum
Ron Newman's fantastic page on DIY room-temperature anodizing of aluminum parts was last revised in 2007, and looks like it may be significantly older than that. Ron's selling a how-to...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday June 18th, 2010 7:09 PM
How-To: Build a synthetic aperture radar from $240 of junk
Ever wish you could build a radar system like the ones used on space missions and spy satellites?
Posted by Matt Mets | Wednesday June 16th, 2010 10:42 AM
Categories: Electronics, General | 3 Comments
How to do 3D-sketching using modeling clay
The folks at Kolb Technology put together this series of tutorial videos (second part here) to show what goes into making models using their modeling clay.
Posted by Matt Mets | Saturday June 12th, 2010 12:07 PM
Categories: Art & Design, General | No Comments
Business card turns into brushless DC motor, is awesome
Just when I thought that we had reached the pinnacle of cool business card designs, Matt and Duncan of Metrix Create: Space revealed their plywood press-fit brushless DC motor business...
Posted by Matt Mets | Friday June 11th, 2010 7:09 AM
