Fabricate Your Own Threaded Parts with Taps and Dies
Screws and bolts are simple options for fastening two pieces of material together. How would you go about making your own?
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How-To: 20-Sided (Pecan) Pie
Instructables user turkey tek achieved an astounding feat of pie engineering with this 20-sided peacan pie tutorial.
Ernie’s Handmade Dwarf Cars
Many years ago a maker looked at a pile of junk and decided to make a miniature classic car from it.
How-To: Custom Dice via Toner Transfer
Solid-gold DIY from Barcelona’s Abraham Neddermann, AKA “Dicecreator”, known here previously for his junk-built laser die engraver, as well as a bunch of sweet custom dice builds (below).
Dice Portrait to Memorialize Friend
Frederick McSwain created DIE, a portrait made of dice in memory of his friend, Tobias Wong, an artist and designer who died last year. Frederick used 13,138 dice, one for each day Tobias lived: The idea of a die itself was appropriate—the randomness of life. It felt like [a medium] he would use. Because [Tobias] […]
Dice reader, version 2
The last time we covered this neat die reading machine by Steve Hoefer, he had a very nice design that was starting to be able to determine the number of a die placed on it. Well, he swapped out his problematic photoresistor sensors for an infrared emitter/detector-based scheme to produce version 2, which he claims works with almost perfect accuracy.
