Month: April 2011

Tool Review: Shinwa 78610 Pin-Probe Mechanical Stud Finder

Tool Review: Shinwa 78610 Pin-Probe Mechanical Stud Finder

Overall, I like the Shinwa 78610. Even though I have a decent capacitative stud finder, I often seem to end up using a 1/16″ drill to probe for studs, anyway. And if I’m looking for joists in the ceiling instead of studs in the wall, mechanical probing is pretty much my only option, because inevitably the ceilings in my homes seem to have popcorn texture which prevents the use of any kind of instrument you have to slide across the surface. So for that use alone, I’m glad I’ve got the Shinwa in my toolbox and think it’s worth the $15.

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How-To: Steel Butterfly Pendant

Instructables user Mrballeng made a how-to for this steel butterfly pendant and writes: This pendant is made by hand with out the use of measurements. Meaning, you start out by drawing what you want and take that directly to the metal. While researching this I realized butterfly wings have so many different shapes. After looking […]

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In the Maker Shed: TV-B-Gone Kit

In the Maker Shed: TV-B-Gone Kit

In honor of Screen-Free Week, the Maker Shed has a great deal on the TV-B-Gone. Turn any TV on or off with a click of the button! With the new and improved Gen 3 model, even big-screen LCD TVs aren’t safe anymore! New features include instant reactivation with the press of a button, a bigger […]

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Candy Images

George Hart @ MAKE writes: Tim Chartier at Davidson College has discovered that if you make things out of candy there’s no lack of volunteers to help you clean up. He takes images and transforms them mathematically into arrays of candy pieces. Here you can see President Obama, as rounded to the set of m&m […]

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Mechanical Twitter Feed

This is a super-rough hardware sketch of what a mechanical Twitter feed might look like. I’ve been playing with ideas around combining digital projection with mechanical motion and this is a prototype to test some of the ideas. It consists of a series of people I follow on Twitter represented as their user photo printed […]

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