Day: January 8, 2008

Bristlebot 2.0

A variation of EMS Lab’s Bristlebot, with a variable resistor added to it. And behold!: Mega Bristlebot! Toothbrush bot – Link Mega Bristlebot – Link Related: HOW TO – Make a Bristlebot a tiny directional vibrobot made from a toothbrush! – Link

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FrostBot – a CNC robot for frosting cookies

FrostBot – a CNC robot for frosting cookies

Brain made a computer controlled cookie frosting robot, he writes – The Frost Bot robot consists of a small table-top CNC router kit made by www.fireballcnc.com, augmented with a forth axis stepper motor driving a frosting extrusion device. The four stepper motors of the system are driven by a single board called a Quad EasyDriver, […]

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Roll your own cathode tubes

Roll your own cathode tubes

In a follow-up to the amazing vid of a guy fabricating his own triode vacuum tubes, here’s a webpage from a builder who shows how he created his own crude cathode ray tubes. Homemade Cathode Ray Tubes – Link Related: Make your own vaccum tubes?

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PET Bottles Shredder

Phil @ MAKE writes: This device “shreds” plastic bottles to make them easier to carry and to make crafts with them. Aiming to reduce the volume of PET bottles carried by “catadores” (people who collect bottles and other kinds of waste from streets), Takashi Utsumi developed a device with which one can rapidly shred PET […]

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