Fireplace Craft Space
Tamara of Brooklyn Craft shares photos of her crafty work space where she transformed a fireplace in her kitchen into her sewing nook complete with her vintage Singer sewing machine.
Month: March 2010
How-To: Fabric Four Leaf Clover Arrangement
There’s still plenty of time before St. Patrick’s Day to whip up a nice bunch of these cool fabric four leaf clovers from Melissa over at Bolt Neighborhood.
Ball-chain gears on Thingiverse
Vik from the RepRap blog created these printable ball-chain gears, and uploaded STLs and SCADs to Thingiverse. I have finally managed to print tiny little ball-chain gears that work with 3.3mm and 3.5mm diameter ball-chain and still fit on the NEMA17’s 5mm output shaft. The trick is to print the gears in two pieces. As […]
Brilliant low-tech soil moisture sensor
Two galvanized nails set in a plug of plaster-of-Paris. That’s it. The Cheap Vegetable Gardener, who created the sensor for an automated grow box project, explains:
Technically a gypsum block measures soil water tension. When the gypsum block is dry it is not possible for electricity to pass between the probes, essentially making the probe an insulator with infinite resistance. As water is added to the problem more electrons can pass between the probes effectively reducing the amount of resistance between the problem to the point when it is fully saturated where the probe has virtually zero resistance. By using this range of values you can determine the amount of water than exists in your soil.
[via Hack a Day]
Build a ball-bearing roller coaster
Check out this excellent instructable that shows you how to bend mains wire into a roller coaster track for a ball bearing. More: How ball bearings are made HOW TO – Make a ball bearing trampoline game Right on Track – Rolling Ball Sculpture
Cross-Stitch Stylophone
This touch-sensitive stitched keyboard is powered by conductive thread and two LilyPad Arduinos, don’t miss the video!
Weekend Project: Pinhole Panoramic Camera
A sturdy, panoramic design pinhole camera that uses 120 film. Thanks go to Ross Orr for the original article in MAKE Volume 09. To download The Pinhole Panoramic Camera video video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Pinhole Panoramic Camera article in MAKE Volume 09 and you can see that in […]