The DIYLILCNC project is a set of plans for an inexpensive, fully functional 3-axis CNC mill that can be built by an individual with basic shop skills and tool access. CNC devices are used to fabricate physical objects with a high degree of precision. Some CNC devices, including the DIYLILCNC, feature a gantry-mounted cutting tool […]
Brett and Sarah Peterson won Nokia’s Push N900 “Mod in the USA” competition with his bike dashboard: Way back in September I heard about the Nokia PUSH N900 global competition. I had been drooling over pictures and all the info I could find about the phone and thought, “Finally! This is my chance to get […]
Check out Matthias Wandel’s excellent homemade wooden bandsaw. His build log provides detailed notes and plentiful photos. [Thanks, Don!] More: Bandsaw beautification Pedal-powered hacksaw
Haeyoung Kim, aka Bubblyfish, wanted to make an animating LED display controlled by her chiptune rock-out move, the fist pump. Her and some classmates put together this little space invader LED dude who animates when the wrist-mounted accelerometer is moved in one of a few recognized motions. They also made an instructable documenting the procedure […]
Eric Hart added a pic of these homemade prop fries to the MAKE Flickr pool. Natalie Taylor Hart took on this project. She began with an old scrap piece of upholstery foam. She set the fence on the bandsaw and cut thin strips out of the foam. She then ran these strips through the bandsaw […]
Ryan Noise shares his method for controlling the Live audio app with a few pieces of helper software, namely: OSCulator, Touchosc and Python script. As CDM points out, this process could likely be simplified by omitting OSCulator and using LiveOSC. I’ve have similar plans myself for the new tablet – unfortunately, all these handy new […]
A Portland contractor builds a secret playroom behind an armoire destined to launch a thousand Narnia jokes.
