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Mark’s violin update

Mark Williams’ electric violin, which he has been building over the past few months is nearly complete. Other than the neck and a few other items, the whole instrument has been scratch built, mostly at the Boston Fab Lab. He has a nice gallery of photos detailing the build.

I’m almost finished painting it, and I just string it all up for the first time since the project exposition to test out the new pickup magnets. It works GREAT! So amazing to play something I’ve built from the ground up. Just have to finish the fingerboard and bridge and then wait for the paint to finish curing so I can buff and polish it.

Continue Reading October 18th, 2009 Chris Connors

Paper gears with CraftRobo

Thanks Lass! Have you tried CraftRobo? Could you do something similar to this by hand? How would you do the design work to make gears and other mechanisms? What software would you use? Add your ideas to the comments, and contribute your photos and video to the MAKE Flickr pool.

Continue Reading March 5th, 2009 Chris Connors4

pov top tells it both ways

Dhananjay Gadre has created another great project! We recently built a LED spinning top with message display. Its an improved version of a similar top published by Elektor in their December 2008 issue. The Elektor top can be spun only in one direction. The synchronization required to print message on the LEDs arranged along the […]

Continue Reading January 6th, 2009 Chris Connors4

Tim Shopbots Stools

Tim is a high school senior doing an independent study. An important part of his work is to learn and document his process with the Shopbot. In order to improve on this first design I modified the top to be 14 inches in diameter as opposed to the original 16 inch diameter, which some people […]

Continue Reading November 25th, 2008 Chris Connors

Danny likes the lasercutter

Danny is a frequent user at the Boston Fab Lab. He has done some great work to figure out the laser cutter. In nice Fab Lab community fashion, Danny has encouraged and tutored many other lab users on how to get the most out of the tools in the lab. The Boston Fab Lab is […]

Continue Reading November 15th, 2008August 13th, 2015 Chris Connors6

Custom Nintendo DS skins

A few months ago I fell into a Nintendo DS for cheap. Somebody wanted a new phone…So once I got my hands on it, I just had to stickerfy it. Here are some shots of the process of putting custom vinyl skins on my ds. This could be a decent little moneymaker. I got it […]

Continue Reading November 12th, 2008 Chris Connors8