Sprocket and innertube belt
Here’s an Instructable for making a belt out of a bicycle innertube, bike chain and sprocket. Sprocket & innertube belt – Link
Science
DIY science is the perfect way to use your creative skills and learn something new. With the right supplies, some determination, and a curious mind, you can create amazing experiments that open up a whole world of possibilities. At home-made laboratories or tech workshops, makers from all backgrounds can explore new ideas by finding ways to study their environment in novel ways – allowing them to make breathtaking discoveries!
Japan’s “painful cars” (and bikes and motorcycles)
Cool Hunting points us to a piece on Seneca Blog about the stickered, painted, and tricked-out anime and games cars shown at the latest twice-annual Comiket convention in Japan. Cool Hunting writes: Typical decor include stickers of popular anime “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” and erotic PC game “Fate/Stay Night.” But it’s not just the […]
The water chopper!
Joe sent over this awesome water chopper! Years of puttering around the workshop finally have paid off for a local inventor, who was featured in the July edition of Popular Mechanic. Jim Garlitz, who operates a pizza shop in this small unincorporated town in the western Maryland mountains, was featured for a watercraft he assembled […]
Electric utility vehicle
FrankG writes in with a new electric utility vehicle project – This project is the conversion of a 1960’s Pargo Bar-Car to an electric Bush-Buggy. As usual action shots, cutting, grinding and welding as the body is removed some electrical work is done and the beast is transformed. Electric utility vehicle – Link.
Make your own desktop volcano
Alex sent in this Russian “Make your own desktop volcano” instructional site, if anyone knows a little Russian post up in the comments, the google translate isn’t working out so well… Link & translation…
HOW TO – Adding auxiliary input to a car stereo
Donn writes in – This page shows you how to hack a cheap car stereo with the PT2313L audio processor integrated circuit to be able to accept an auxiliary input, say from an MP3 player. The need for such a hack grew out of my frustration with connecting portable music players to my cheap car […]
The Jaldi charger
Pauli writes – I was assigned to design and implement a battery charger for 12 volt lead acid batteries used to backup WiFi- routers in rural areas of developing countries. Doesn’t sound very complicated a task in the first place, does it? At least that’s what I thought before finding out the facts (most of […]