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Birthday Postcards/Poster Project

Last year, I posted about Jordan Ferney’s awesome birthday postcard/poster project. She’s back with a beautiful, downloadable version that you can use to create your own fun birthday surprise for someone. You download the pdf … made up of 25 different pages that each have a part of the poster or “piece of the puzzle” […]

3D-Printed House Keys

Nirav Patel printed working house keys on his RepRap. It occurred to me recently that I had printed almost nothing actually useful on my RepRap 3D printer, aside from parts to improve on or build more RepRaps. I am rectifying that with this project. The goal here is to generate working house keys by inputing […]

How-To: Operate a Homemade Scanning Electron Microscope

How-To: Operate a Homemade Scanning Electron Microscope

When we last checked in on Ben Krasnow’s homemade SEM, he had just achieved his first successful image with the device. As his latest video shows, the project has come a long way since then. It’s a long clip, by internet standards, at almost 10 minutes, but Ben does a great job of communicating what he’s doing and why, taking us through each step in the imaging process, from loading the sample, through pumping down the vacuum chamber and powering up the electronics, to fine-tuning the image itself.

How-To: Wooden Beer Mug

How-To: Wooden Beer Mug

Becky Stern @ CRAFT writes: The rising temperatures and humidity in the northeast have me craving a cold frosty brew, and what better way to drink it than in a wooden beer mug you made yourself. Drean on Instructables shows you how to form this design, although you should investigate to be sure the wood […]