Breanna Newbill from Dollar Store Mom has discovered that making your own laundry detergent is not difficult and can save you quite a bit of dough. She estimates that one load’s worth of her DIY detergent costs about a penny compared to around fifty cents when you use the store-bought stuff. With a few simple […]
If you’d like to try your hand at turning on a lathe, but don’t want to shell out for a machine, how about printing your own EZLathe? Paul writes:
So I’ve built a complete mini lathe system I’m calling the EZLathe… Fully 3D Printable except a small motor, and a couple pieces of cheap electronics. And able to do small wood turning jobs, or small pieces of pretty much anything.
Add a few stepper motors and a controller, and before you know it you’ve got a nifty little cnc lathe.
Late April is probably not the time of year to get interested in designing and making fleece hats, but that’s what has happened to me over the past day or so. The other night, I decided that the fleece hat I’ve worn for most of the winter is too tight, and resolved to make my own. Sewing is new to me, and I’m trying to build my skills with this ancient craft and learning how to use my recently acquired sewing machine. As I’m doing this and other projects, one of my goals is to develop classroom projects for my high school students. The slideshow above shows the photos documenting the process of creating one hat.
MAKE’s interview with hardware hacker Akiba highlighted a fascinating trend: individuals and small groups taking their safety into their own hands by creating, modifying, and networking radiation detectors, a.k.a. Geiger counters, rather than relying on governments for information. The following projects and kits aim to put Geiger counters in the hands of ordinary makers. Resources […]
Make: Live airs tonight! Don’t miss our bikes episode where guests Nick Normal and William Thomas Porter join us with pedal-powered projects. We’ll also be giving away some tools from Digi-Key to one lucky member of the chat. Giveaway prizes: 148 Piece tool set LED flashlight Make: Live 06 – Bikes, Basics to Extremes Wednesday […]
Sick of shaky hand-held video? You could try to build one of the many DIY steadycam projects out there or you could attempt to recreate the work of Colorado Springs area maker Adam Sidman’s multi-axis camera stabilization device. Using MEMS gyro sensors and servo motors mounted to a yaw and pitch gimbaled structure, the device actively compensates for sloppy handheld camera movement.
Andrew Lathrop says: I created this inexpensive radiation dosimeter for the people of Japan. Strange that when I sent this to Japanese newspapers it was not printed or commented on. We were all amazed at the sensitivity of an inexpensive digital camera ccd to beta radiation eqvalent to 100 bananas (+- 1.0 mrem). I have […]
