Electronics: Fun and Fundamentals — LED Photo Lights
Easy, efficient, and effective.
Posted by Charles Platt
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics, Photography & Video | No Comments
Clamps Projects
Fast Toy Wood Car
Lots of my friends have kids, and that means lots of birthdays. I wanted to have a custom present that’s easy to make and has lots of room to play,...
Posted by Ed Lewis
Categories: Home, Kids & Family | 1 Comment
Making a DIY Vacuum Former Cheap in One Day
Posted by Fon Davis
Categories: Workshop, Electronics | No Comments
Inkle Loom
Weaving is one of my favorite crafts because it’s meditative and challenging, practical and artistic. It combines plain-woven cloth’s simple elegance with the astounding complexity of a kilim split-stitch tapestry....
Posted by Kristin Roach
Categories: Woodworking, Craft | No Comments
Ribbon-Tie Sandals
Nearly as long as humankind has roamed the earth, people have been wearing shoes. Ancient Egyptians, Indians, and East Asians began sporting wooden sandals thousands of years ago. Thankfully, inexpensive...
Posted by Annie Mohaupt
Categories: Craft, Electronics, Woodworking | No Comments
Marble Adding Machine
Computers add binary numbers constantly, but we never see how. This elegant machine does the math using glass marbles. I started building marble track machines years ago using Lego. I...
Posted by Matthias Wandel
Categories: Electronics, Woodworking | No Comments
Whack-a-Mole Game
Jim Chen designed an excellent electronic "Whack-a-Mole" game using 555 timers, LEDs, and bent-diode touch sensors, that you can build on a solderless breadboard; for a full explanation, check out...
Posted by Steve Hobley
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games | No Comments
The UnaBox
My architect friends Lorenzo Bini and Roberta Pezzulla made this little project for a very young and dynamic client: Lorenzo’s 6-month-old goddaughter. They wanted to make a box that the...
Posted by Claudio Bernardini
Categories: Woodworking, Home | 2 Comments
Circuit Board Cabinet
In our consumer society, most materials are discarded once they become old or obsolete. Many of these rejects have a hidden beauty that can be brought back to life in...
Posted by Andrew Argyle
Categories: Craft, Furniture, Home | No Comments
Router Trammel
This attachment mounts in place of your router’s factory baseplate and is used for cutting circular disks from, or boring circular holes in, sheet stock. It pivots about a small...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan
Categories: Woodworking, Furniture | 5 Comments
Wooden Table
Before moving off to college I wanted to build something that would be suitable as a kitchen table and double as my desk for studying. It needed to be sturdy...
Posted by Nick Raymond
Categories: Woodworking, Furniture | No Comments
