Adafruit’s most recent Part Finder Friday column featured these cool no-nonsense BUD USB 7201-C polycarbonate USB dongle cases, available at Digi-Key and Mouser and probably other places. They cost about...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday March 7th, 2011 6:03 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Craft, Electronics, Tools | 2 Comments
This trick might have been around forever, but it was new to me: using wine and champagne corks for file handles. Ray Connors, a new member of the Hack Factory,...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday February 28th, 2011 5:00 PM
Categories: Tools, Woodworking, Workshop | 6 Comments
For our Woodworking Skill Set theme, we asked MAKE contributor Len Cullum to contribute some pieces on understanding basic tools and techniques. Here, he presses into service some of the...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday February 28th, 2011 4:00 PM
Categories: Tools, Woodworking | 13 Comments
I picked up this lovely old toolbox full of tools at a yard sale recently. Any advice on reviving some of those rusty tools in there? Please add your favorite...
Posted by John Edgar Park | Sunday February 27th, 2011 7:30 AM
Categories: Tools, Workshop | 45 Comments
One of our new members at the Hack Factory is Ray Connors, a locksport aficionado. He makes his own lockpicks, which are sold in pairs, double-sided rake/tensors. Also, I really...
Posted by John Baichtal | Friday February 25th, 2011 5:00 PM
Categories: Tools | 4 Comments
The clever copy some bright marketeer wrote for SparkFun’s Heaterizer XL-3000 is turning into a pretty awesome viral advertisement for the product, and for SparkFun itself. [via Boing Boing]
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday February 16th, 2011 9:10 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics, Tools | 7 Comments
For our Woodworking Skill Set theme, we asked MAKE contributor Len Cullum to contribute some pieces on understanding basic tools and techniques. Here, he explains the tools used for laying...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday February 15th, 2011 4:00 PM
Categories: Tools, Woodworking | 7 Comments
A commenter on Monday’s post about Rob Ives’ free downloadable resistor color wheel computer pointed us to the Japanese-language site of Ikkei Electronics, which provides this PDF created in 2007,...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday February 15th, 2011 9:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, General, Tools | 1 Comment
Make: Projects contributor Josh Burroughs has posted an excellent handsaw restoration how-to. Why bother to take the time to restore an old, rusty saw? Josh explains: Modern saws found at...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday February 14th, 2011 3:30 PM
Categories: Tools, Woodworking | No Comments
OK, so, it’s not really that hard to learn to read a resistor without a special tool, but ever since I saw the free downloadable nuclear bomb effects computer I...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday February 14th, 2011 9:03 AM
Categories: Education, Electronics, General, Tools | 7 Comments
I have been interested in picking locks since I picked my first lock in science class one day during 7th grade. Last year, I purchased a number of lock picks...
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday February 10th, 2011 11:00 AM
Categories: Tools | 2 Comments
For our Woodworking Skill Set theme, we asked MAKE contributor Len Cullum to contribute some pieces on understanding basic tools and techniques. Here, he explains how to “tune” new woodworking...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday February 9th, 2011 2:00 PM
Categories: Tools, Woodworking | 18 Comments
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