Jobs and Woz on Blue Boxing
“If we hadn’t made Blue Boxes, there’d be no Apple,” recounts Steve Jobs. Here’s him and Steve Wozniak on the subject. [via 9to5mac] More: The ol’ Blue Boxing. Good times, good times.
DIY Projects
Gorgeous rebuilt Tru-Cut reel mower
Back in February, MachinistBlog contributor Mikey won an essay contest there with his post, Honest – all I ever wanted to do was make some stuff…, which is a must-read for anybody who’s thinking about getting into hobby machining. And it includes a picture of this beautifully rebuilt mower. Mikey says:
Homemade engraver’s ball
I don’t think the captions from Ganoksin Project user Shaun750’s video, embedded above, showing off his clever kitbashed engraver’s vise, are intended to be appreciated as blank verse. But it’s working for me. [Thanks, Jason!]
Equinox Clock by Bram Knaapen
Bram used an Arduino, 12 LED drivers, and 60 RGB LEDs to create his latest project, the Equinox Clock.
Make: Projects – Hollow-core door table
Thing about folding tables is, the tops–which are commonly made of cheap particle board–tend to wear out much faster than the legs–which are usually made of steel. So the world is full of old folding tables with mutilated tops and perfectly serviceable legs. If you know where to look, good-looking hollow-core doors can be had for a song, and make for great replacement tabletops for those old folding legs if you know how to mount them correctly. Here’s how I did it, using XRS Molly bolts with expanding adhesive foam blown in for reinforcement.
CNC coming together at the Hack Factory
Pete McKenna and Steve McGrath, with help from others, have built a multi-tool CNC at the Hack Factory in Minneapolis. It began as a CNC inspection machine that someone donated to the hackerspace. When I was at the HF on Wednesday the guys had it set up to draw with a Sharpie, and they also […]
Weekly Make: Projects round up
Here are a few of our favorite new offerings on Make:Projects. If you haven’t registered yet, done a project, or posted one, what are you waiting for? Here’s how to get started. Projects from MAKE magazine and Make: Online: Playable Pac-Man Costume Halloween will be sneaking up and scaring the stuffing out of you before […]
