Our pals at Design News put together a few electronics projects for Valentine’s day… Avoiding Doggus Interrupt-Us Planning a romantic evening at home? Les designed a remote control door opener so you don’t have to manually let Fido out of his cage. The system consists of a clevis mounted to the shaft of a solenoid […]
From Uncommon Threads on the DIY Network comes this cool latch-hook project to make this street art portait rug. The image of the skull is available in a downloadable PDF and links to resources for supplies. Link.
Neelandan shows you how to salvage surface mount components – “I shall tell you how I rescue components from old circuit boards and store them for reuse. A board from an old (relatively new, that is) hard disk drive shall be shown for an example. The photo (taken using my scanner) shows one such board, […]
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Got an old scanner? Jpitz31 shows you how to make a desk lamp – “This instructable shows you how to make a desk lamp out of scrounged scanner parts and a few extras from Home Depot. I have set up a small solar array, controller and a storage battery. I wanted to make some low […]
Laurie shares with us her cute technique on how to make lollypops even cuter — make some lollypop covers! Link.
Nat sent in this 120 pound desk, completely made from LEGOs… Approximately 35,000 LEGO bricks were used. This includes almost all the pieces from 32 Blue Tubs (#3033), almost 300 (!) small baseplates (8×16 studs), and 63 blue plate packs from LEGO Shop-at-Home. A few other pieces were also bought from private collectors (226 tiles […]
