Month: January 2010

Printable gel casting kit from cathalgarvey

Printable gel casting kit from cathalgarvey

If you’re interested in doing gel electrophoresis at home, there are certainly easier ways to get a gel casting kit, but I wanted to throw some more props at Thingiverse user cathalgarvey, who has recently also brought us a printable microlathe and a printable centrifuge attachment for a motor tool. He’s fast making a name for himself as a designer of practical printables. Might I suggest a printable microtome next?

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Help torture-test Craftsman tools

Craftsman has a social-media marketing campaign going right now where you can suggest ways to stress test the company’s hand and power tools. The above videos are the first two in the series. Creating these tests was insanely fun — and we’re going to create more. But it would be selfish of us to have […]

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Keep Calm and Carry Yarn

Earlier this week, our friends over at BoingBoing pointed to this new variant of the Keep Calm and Carry On meme. It’s a no-brainer for the newly organized crafty space of you knitters, crocheters, and other yarn lovers. The BB post caused the item to quickly sell out, but there’s a poster now available in […]

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