Our pal Quinn Dunki sent us this fix she made to her rope-start salad spinner. The nylon cord on it broke. Rather than toss it away, she used it as an opportunity to learn more about the mechanism that powers it, and experimented with different replacement chord. Eventually she ended up with a 550lb-test paracord. Yeah. That oughta hold.
Niklas Roy built this lovely “Electronic Instant Camera” using an old B&W video camera hooked up to a thermal printer via an ATMega8 micro controller. Electronic Instant Camera
I wasn’t sure what the answer to that question might be, so I interviewed seven female hackerspace members (actually, one is an ex-member) to get their take on what it’s like. Leave a comment with your (constructive) thoughts!
For those of you who love doodles, mail art, or cheering postal workers, you may want to consider adorning your next Netflix envelope. [above art by jovino; via Doodles Anonymous]
In concert with the forthcoming robot issue of MAKE, Volume 27, we’ll be covering robots here on the site this month. As you can imagine, over the years, we’ve amassed quite a lot of robot-related material, here on the website, in the magazine, and in Make: Projects. We’ll be repackaging some of the best of that material over the next month and organizing some of it into our Skill Builder series.
I always love illustrated projects. This clever T-Shirt remake from MandalinaRossa’s tumlbr is no exception.
Crocheters, here’s a trio of cute ways to protect your cell phone, from Stephanie at All About Ami. I’m a big fan of the pretty crochet-and-fabric model above (large wooden buttons get me every time), and below, you can see the other designs. The full set of how-to’s is linked over here. In all cases, […]
