From the MAKE Flickr pool: Flickr user P^2 – Paul created this fridge controller run by a Teensy: This is a microcontroller-powered temperature controller for a fridge I built out of fabricated necessity and spare parts last weekend. Backstory: We replaced our ancient 2nd fridge with a big new upright freezer, which left our little […]
Here’s a neat idea by telescope maker AstroNutRex: you can make a worm gear by bending some pieces of threaded nylon rod around a circular form.
Tormach wants to sell you an upgrade package for your Mach3-compatible CNC robot that includes a 1.3M USB microscope with 220X optical magnification, a mounting bracket, and all the necessary software to turn your CNC equipment into a scanner. The cool part is they’ve also produced a video showing how to hack together a slightly-less-powerful system using a $20 pen cam and some free software that will let you make 2000 dpi scans limited only by the size of your CNC bed envelope. The “killer app” for this equipment is automatic reverse-engineering of parts, but you could also use it to easily scan maps, posters, artwork, or other oversize stuff. [via Hacked Gadgets]
Nyle Steiner of sparkbangbuzz built a Simple Homemade T.E.A. Laser using some pieces of scrap aluminum and a moderately high voltage power supply.
If you’ve ever tried to interface a microcontroller-based MIDI project to a computer, you know it can be kind of a pain.
“If we hadn’t made Blue Boxes, there’d be no Apple,” recounts Steve Jobs. Here’s him and Steve Wozniak on the subject. [via 9to5mac] More: The ol’ Blue Boxing. Good times, good times.
I don’t think the captions from Ganoksin Project user Shaun750’s video, embedded above, showing off his clever kitbashed engraver’s vise, are intended to be appreciated as blank verse. But it’s working for me. [Thanks, Jason!]
