Make a glowie LED robot
Remainseated writes – “Using off-the-shelf LEDs to make a plastic ‘robot’ glow and fade colors! Provides an introduction to basic soldering, circuitry, LEDs and plastics.” – Link.
Month: April 2006
Wheelchair can’t keep couple from cycling
Jerry writes – “Great article about a maker who invented a tandem bicycle-wheelchair, so he could wheel with his partner! Amazing story!” – Link. Pictured here, A WHEEL-CYCLE BUILT FOR TWO: Judy Norbury and Ross Hunt enjoy a spin in their recumbent bicycle-wheelchair cross that lets Ross pull Judy around with pedal or electric power […]
Foldable bed and shelf
This bed and shelf from Kurt Thut are really clever, if everything was foldable and moveable like this, I’d move and rearrange stuff more often… [via] – Link. Related: Kurt Thut – Link. HOW TO – Make an over-the-bed computer cart – Link. HOW TO make an attached In-Bed Computer Desk – Link. Pipe dream […]
HOW TO solder – resources
Here are a few soldering resources – if you have others you enjoy (online) post on up in the comments! Aaron’s guide – “Soldering is defined as “the joining of metals by a fusion of alloys which have relatively low melting points”. In other words, you use a metal that has a low melting point […]
Homemade bottle rocket machine gun
David writes – “I’ve loved bottle rockets since I was a kid. They are cheap and fun. I soon found that shooting them off individually was boring. I put two in a bottle, twisted the fuses together and lit them both – double the fun. Then I tried 3, 4, and more, with the goal […]
HOW TO – Make a cool, durable, and affordable PS2 GT4 racing cage
Jamesloo283 writes – “Tired of playing GT4 with that lap attachment kit? Still wouldn’t buy that 900 degrees racing wheel and play GT4 like it was meant to be played because you don’t have a place to mount it? Or still hesitating to buy that nice racing seat package because it costs $300 bucks? Here […]
Circuit board art
Francisco writes – “I’ve been cutting two different kinds of shapes, really kitschy holiday shapes and somewhat kitschy geometric shapes…All of these shapes are made from either dead or seriously obsolete circuit boards, pulled from various items – motherboards, hard drive/floppy/cd drive controllers, ethernet/sound/video cards, etc. Not all boards are equal – some are thinner, […]
