Realta writes – “Do you want to play the conga drum and are held back because of the stiff introductory purchase price attached to a commercially made “professional” conga? If you can build a bird house then you can make a conga drum–satisfaction guaranteed.” [via] Link. Related: Home-Made Cajon – Link. History of the Cajon […]
Senseless writes – “I was wondering if I could heat the water in my swimming pool using the heat in the house’s attic and I started messing about with a large heatsink. The water for my hotwater heater has to pass through it and picks up free calories which saves on the power bill quite […]
This is a great hack – “Usually, when you have to measure something and input the data into the computer, you buy a digital meter. But what do you do when you already have an old, trusty analog meter and don’t want to shell out for a new digital meter? You could just take the […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Vrogy made an evil robot hand/coathanger inspired by the Instructable we posted up. He writes – “It’s cut out of 1/4″ mild steel with an oxy-acetylene torch, by hand, then I bent it into shape over an old Vulcan anvil we have at the shop with a hand sledge.” – […]
Awesome, we posted up an old photo from 1895 of a “Railway velocipede” and of course, turns out, there are makers out there building and using these. Here are a few that were sent in. Railbike along the scenic Willamette River between Lake Oswego and Portland – Link. Krazmo writes – “This guy has well […]
Markus writes – “This miniature, 8-line home telephone exchange (PABX) works with standard telephones and features high-quality, user-friendly progress tones. Connection to telephones is via a two-wire unbalanced loop with a common ground. Only pulse dialling is supported although the exchange could be adapted to use a DTMF tone decoder.” Lots of schematics and photos […]
Jpmartineau writes in about the PVC light tent we posted earlier – “I loved the idea so I built my own. Using 1/2″ copper tubing instead of PVC.” – Link and translation.
