Dan sent in his $200 machine shop, here’s what he put together – “…I spent some time thinking about it and decided that it might actually be possible to put together a rudimentary machine shop capable of doing some small mill and lathe work for about $200. It is nothing fancy, but it does work […]
Here’s a video from our pals at Technical Video Rental, Chris Reynolds talks about the CNC machine he made himself from $100 in parts over three weekends. The machine is driven by a PC running TurboCNC. The machine moves a router over an XY tabletop to cut parts from wood, foam, plastic, etc for hobbies […]
The MAKE team is going to visit the folks from iRobot (Makers of the Roomba) – so, Makers – what types of robots do you want to see in homes, business, etc? What features, access, specs, docs are important? Recently, iRobot released a SCI (Serial control interface) for their new vacuuming bots, and since then […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member NJfourwheeler fixed and modded a weed wacker he found – “A few weeks ago I trash picked a rechargeable weed whacker complete with charger. At first the charger wouldn’t report a full charge and battery life was extremely short. I assumed this is why the unit was out in the […]
Jens writes – “I have read your blog entries for GPS data loggers. Instead of getting one of those stand-alone data loggers, I would suggest to get a Garmin e-Trex. This is a standard GPS handheld receiver for outdoor use. They sell for about 100$, collect 10000 data points and run 22 hours on AA […]
Robert has an excellent series of articles on glass blowing for scientific vacuum devices such as glow tubes, filament lamps and thermionic devices. Thanks K-milo! Link. Related: Scientific glass blowing @ East Carolina University – Link.
Rick writes – “Patchwork Central in Evansville, Indiana, runs after-school art programs for inner-city kids. Over the three years that I ran the Bike Club there, the kids (10 years old & up) & I created a number of amazing and unusual custom bikes. Whatever the kids dreamed up, we built… staying within the laws […]
