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Make: Projects – “You Have Just Been Poisoned” Pint Glass

Make: Projects – “You Have Just Been Poisoned” Pint Glass

Fans of Patrick McGoohan’s classic BBC spy series ‘The Prisoner’ will recognize this gimmick from Episode 15, “The Girl Who Was Death.” It’s a pint glass with words etched on the bottom (in authentic “Village” font) that appear line-by-line as the liquid is imbibed. My version is the closest reproduction of the original I could achieve.

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How-To: Set Up a Basement PCB Fab & Use It To Make a POV Business Card

How-To: Set Up a Basement PCB Fab & Use It To Make a POV Business Card

This Instructable from Jared Foster doesn’t just show you how to make his cool persistence-of-vision business card. It takes you through the construction of a circulating etch tank, the modification of a laminating machine to make a stencil applicator, the assembly of a controller to turn a toaster into a reflow oven, and the cobbling-together of a vacuum pickup tool for SMT components. And then you get some practice using all that cool stuff making a POV business card. It even comes with obligatory American Psycho allusions.

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Toner Transfer Etched Custom Car Audio Panel

Toner Transfer Etched Custom Car Audio Panel

Great looking results from the very accessible process of toner transfer galvanic etching, by Rab. [via Hacked Gadgets]

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Using a plastic bottle label as a built-in etch resist

Using a plastic bottle label as a built-in etch resist

One of our most-trafficked original tutorials over the past couple of years has been this simple trick for etching designs on glass bottles by using the label itself as a stencil. It’s a quick, satisfying, inexpensive project that yields long-lasting results with common equipment. In the process of porting the original blog post to our new Make: Projects platform, I took the opportunity to revisit the idea, updating the old images and adding a couple of helpful details, all of which was refreshingly easy using the new interface. Check it out.

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LEGO PCB Agitator

LEGO PCB Agitator

Etching your own PCBs can be a time consuming chore to say the least. Anything that automates the process or cuts down on the time it takes is usually appreciated. Maker Rui Cabral of Oporto, Portugal pieced together this handy PCB agitator out of LEGO to help him speed things up a bit.

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Mario eeepc

Mario eeepc

Taking devotion to Mario to a whole new level is this eeepc etching by flickr user Revolvingdork. This project taught me 2 things: 1. 70% speed 40% power are good settings for etching with an Epilog on an eeepc. 2. The levels in Mario really weren’t that many screens long! You can pick up an […]

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