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Will has a good starter on making your own CNC machine – “Ready for some hard core gadget creation? If you thought your dremel tool was handy before, in today’s How-To we’ll start building our own CNC machine. Aside from the geek factor, it can be handy for making things like PC boards without chemicals […]
Here’s our next TV-B-Gone mod, bam! “This TV-B-Gone uses a 9V battery to send its signal through a matrix of 20 IR LEDS. This extends the working range of the device to about 90ft (line of sight). Using this in a regular sized room you are pretty much guaranteed to kill the TV no matter […]
ThePhoton’s Nixie clock that we have followed over the last few weeks is done done done, nice work! – “After nearly three months since the beginning of the project the clock is complete. It uses four GNP-17A tubes for the main hours and minutes display, and two IN-16 tubes for the seconds. The case is […]
Simon from BigBlueSaw writes “Lamina Design has software that lets you turn interesting 3D designs made in Rhino or other CAD software into wonderful 3D objects that can be made on a waterjet.” [via] – Link.
Here’s another neat laser etched Powerbook (Magritte’s “The Son of Man” ) [via] – Link. Related: Laser etched Powerbook! – Link. How it’s made – Laser etching Powerbooks – Link.
A Maker in the forums was looking to make a LED display that can read RSS feeds, here’s a start – Atharsia writes – “Check out [this site] for a circuit that can be used to drive a matrix of LED’s that can be driven to display alphanumeric characters. You should be able to just […]
There’s a Starbucks in Washington that has a bicycle powered blender and the customers make their own drinks or something (I couldn’t find any information on why they’re doing this or which one in WA, but there was a video on Keith Obermann last night). So, here are some resources around the web on bike […]
