How-To: Treadmill desk
This Eric Wilhelm’s treadmill desk. He’s the CEO of Instructables, and he walks while he works. I’d like to do something similar, but with a bike!
DIY Projects
How-To: Basic work table
Randy Sarafan made this work table geared towards making DIY projects and documenting them: I set out to make a simple work table for my home studio so that I could have a surface upon which to work and document projects. I tried to keep the design as simple as possible as I only have […]
Set-top box laser-cut stand for videophone
One my students, Danny Geiger, has a Sorenson videophone for communicating using sign language, and it’s designed to sit on top of your TV. The problem is that it doesn’t work work well with flat screens, so he made a laser-cut stand to support it. He provides the Illustrator file to make your own, which […]
Android controlled door opening Linux WiFi router
Sunlight Labs, known for opening America’s government, had a problem when they recently moved facilities. Creating new keys for team members was becoming costly, so they figured out an alternative method of providing secure access using a WRT54GL, easily sourced components, and a trusty copy of Make: Electronics.
Cylon teddy bear
Somebody lucky got this Cylon teddy bear for Valentine’s Day! Learn how to make your own with dragonvpm’s Instructable. In the Maker Shed: Larson Scanner Kit
How-To: Make riveted chain mail
There are scads of tutorials flushing through the tubes that will show you how to twirl old wire coat hangers into rings, cut them up, and link them together with pliers to make the ubiquitous “butted” chain mail, in which the individual rings are either unjoined, soldered, or glued together. But this recent Instructable from armourkris, for the truly dedicated, shows you how to make a much more serious–and to my amateur eye, authentic–mail, in which each ring is flattened, punched, linked, and then riveted closed.
How-To: Wilderness chair
Here’s a neat Instructable for making a wood-and-rope-only camping chair, looks comfy! I can almost smell the campfire.