I’m not sure just why this design for a homemade flashlight cased in standard galvanized pipe fittings is so appealing to me, but it is. It’s an entry in Instructables’ ongoing Flashlight Contest from user, ah, “qxnixrfnaozqqx,” who can only be defeated by tricking him into saying his own name backwards.

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't โ Magazin fรผr Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.
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