The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
Michael of n0m1 Design built this Arduino-controlled night light as a Mother’s Day gift. A few years back I made a motion sensitive night light as a Mother’s day gift and while it worked pretty well it really chewed out the batteries. And as with all devices that eat batteries it eventually fell out of […]
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The engineers behind Templeman Automation are developing Playsurface, an affordable open-source touch table for “ordinary developers and consumers.”
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This was a reality check for me: Before there were TVs and computers, chairs were sometimes pointed at other human beings. Enter the “conversation chair,” for which I admit preferring the French term tête-à-tête: Two or more chairs built together, expressly for the purpose that their occupants sit and talk to one another.
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From Sebastien Demeulenaere comes this wall-mounted fixture made from reused crates. The orange light emanating from the inside gives great ambiance, and the filter can be switched out at will to provide different colors. Of course, the use of otherwise-discarded materials is certainly a bonus in my book.
A clever and beautiful reuse of plastic industrial crates: making an awesome storage system! Created by Mark van der Gronden, the “crates cabinets” are sold by Lensvelt. The series of cabinets, Krattenkast (crates cabinet), is a simple design concept: a steel frame with multicoloured, second hand crates, which act as drawers in the steel construction. […]
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Complete instructions for this episode of Weekend Projects can be found at
http://makeprojects.com/Project/Little-Big-Lamp/2310/1
Combine your shop skills and your soldering skills to fabricate your very own desk lamp! Using hardware store-bought PVC and some electronic components, design and build this classic light fixture. Based on an earlier project, Little Big Lamp has been updated to take advantage of new and improved technology. This build will also introduce you to wiring LEDs in series and the principle of Pulse Width Modulation.
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Redditor BillyAppletini AT-AT / cat fort is but the latest in a series excellent AT-AT projects we’ve featured in this space. Click through for more!
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