DIY Projects

The IKEABagHack

The IKEABagHack

Speaking of IKEA… Here’s a simple bag project from the MAKE Flickr CRAFT pool – “The IKEABagHack is a hack of the famous IEAK bags that serve as shopping baskets inside IKEA stores. Outside the stores these bags are widely used by young people to transport great amounts of laundry and/or emtpy bottles. The basic […]

DIY 1000 watt wind turbine

DIY 1000 watt wind turbine

Sspence writes – “We built a 1000 watt wind turbine to help charge the battery bank that powers our offgrid home. It’s a permanent magnet alternator, generating 3 phase ac, rectified to dc, and fed to a charge controller. The magnets spin with the wind, the coils are fixed, so no brushes or slip rings […]

Craft Rooms

Craft Rooms

Since Phil has posted up some great shots of Maker’s workshops I started wondering about where people craft. I found this great Flickr group called “Craft Rooms” and there are tons of cool photos of craft rooms or corners and how people organize their craft supplies. As a comment on this photo’s page says, “I […]

Workbench!

Workbench!

This is Rob’s workbench, there are many like it, but this one is his. Add your workspace/bench to the MAKE Flickr photo pool and we’ll pick a few over the next couple weeks, and you might just win something nice from MAKE (winning is good). So, bring out your bench! – Link.

Apple IIe on the Interweb!

Apple IIe on the Interweb!

Ben has his Apple IIe on the web, here’s how he did it – “My Apple IIe is online via an ethernet card I bought from a2RetroSystems, and the Contiki Operating System. I used a super serial card along with a Windows machine and some software called ADT to transfer disk images of Contiki to […]