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DIY Projects
Star Trek Pez LED menorah
Never in my life could I imagine the job that came from using the words Star Trek Pez LED menorah all together in one title. Joyce and Kaufman made this kitchy creation using one of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories delux LED menorah kits. Just terrific!
Downloadable papercraft Elder Thing
British video game artist Wayne Peters has a downloadable fold up pattern (PDF) for his 28mm paper model of one of Lovecraft’s master baddies from At the Mountains of Madness. [via Propnomicon]
How-To: Make a wooden keyboard enclosure
This great tutorial on building a wooden keyboard case is just the tip of the iceberg at Matthias Wendell’s impressive “woodworking for engineers” site. [via Hack a Day]
Cyborg toy piano
The inimitable Ranjit Bhatnagar has been working on this voice-controlled toy piano. In this video three folks at NYC Resistor test out its range by laughing and singing!
How-To: Mount a video camera in a model rocket
James Yawn’s site Recrystallized Rocketry has lots of great information about DIY rocketry, including this great tutorial about mounting a video camera. This hot pink rocket is called the “sugar rush,” because it is powered by Yawn’s homemade potassium nitrate/sugar rocket fuel. [Thanks, Kenneth!]
Make: Projects – Harvesting chemicals from a battery
This tutorial shows how to take apart a spent zinc-carbon dry cell of the common household type. Besides making for an interesting object lesson in electrochemistry, taking apart a spent D-cell, for instance, allows you to salvage many materials which can be of use to amateur chemists–materials which would otherwise probably end up in a landfill. Separated from its reactive components, the leftover parts of the battery can be safely added to most municipal recycling streams.