Holding a flashlight for awkward work
So -that’s- why everyone wore ties in the old days – Popular Science 1940 – Link.
Month: August 2006
Turning a Sony stereo into an iPod boombox
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Crabzoid is making an iPod boombox from an old Sony stereo – “Like my last “casemod” I’ve taken an old piece of sony product and turned it into a fancy ipod case. The ipod fits into the cassette slot and a hidden audio jack routs the music to the speakers.” […]
HOW TO – Mod your espresso machine
Will shows you how to upgrade an espresso machine with a new and powerful pump – “The quest for caffeine leads many a geek down the road to espresso, as we know all too well. We haven’t gotten around to turning a MacBook into an espresso machine… yet, but we just can’t resist modifying our […]
Match museum
The Match museum in Japan has a detailed history of matches, the science of matches and galleries of current (and old) match book art – “Japan Match Manufacturers Association and Japan Match Lateral Corporation operate this Match Museum. The biggest feature of this museum is superior match labels, which are specially selected from Rankei Library’s […]
HOW TO – Make a worm gearbox speed sensor
Ame writes “I wanted to accurately control the speed of the motor in a Tamiya 72004 worm gearbox for a robot I am building. To do this you must have some way to measure the current speed. This project shows the evolution of the speed sensor. As you can see in the picture, the motor […]
Glasses made from vinyl records
Remeber Scott Urban’s eyeglass frames made out of wood? He now has a new series made from vinyl LPs (records) – [via] – Link. Related: Wood glasses – Link. HOW TO – Make emergency eyeglasses – Link. Eyeglasses Through the Ages – Link.
HOW TO – Grow your own snowflakes
Here’s a how to from Ken @ Caltech on making snowflakes in a coke bottle using dry ice and styrofoam cups… – Link.