Month: March 2010

Cool Idea:  Bannister ropes

Cool Idea: Bannister ropes

Image courtesy W.R. Outhwaite & Son, Ropemakers. Depending on where you live, this may be old hat for you, but I’ve lived 30 years on this earth and never seen a rope bannister before. And I just finished remodeling my staircase too. Besides being less expensive, easier to ship, easier to install, and way more […]

High-voltage project resource

High-voltage project resource

By way of maker muse Jeri Ellsworth comes this great project log site, 4HV.org, for those pursuing high-voltage projects. We’ve linked to a few projects from here over the years, but it’s worth bringing it to the top again. Seen here is Marko’s DRSSTC (Double Resonant Solid State Tesla Coil). [Thanks, Jeri!] And it goes […]

In the Maker Shed: 54 Piece Bit Driver Kit

In the Maker Shed: 54 Piece Bit Driver Kit

Got some strange screws that need unscrewing? Want to get in there and modify some gear the manufacturer didn’t trust you to open? Maybe you need to pick up the new 54 Piece Bit Driver Kit over in the Maker Shed. This kit includes a magnetized driver with metal shaft, swivel top, and rubberized grip, a 60 mm extension, a 130 mm flexible extension, and 54 bits. By iFixit.

Workshop panorama

Workshop panorama

I love this panoramic series of photos of Matthew Good‘s workshop. He describes the contents: Ohm’s Law Medicine Man balsa wood glider (half finished) Make:Electronics book, Maker’s Notebook Woolly Mammoth clone guitar pedal, nearly done 2.5 gallon fishtank, testing out temperature logging via LM34 and Arduino There are no less than five computers on/around my […]