Randy Sarafan shows you how to mod your digicam to take infrared pics, then solder up a big ol’ infrared LED light that mounts to your cameras tripod threading. Randy writes, “this special camera captures even the most difficult shots in low-to-no light photographic brilliance.”
Cool folk art tutorial from delightfully-pseudonymed Instructables user “oldanvilyoungsmith” that manages to combine blacksmithing, old rusty bolts, and scorpions in a single project. Win, win, and win.
Instructables user rog8811 set out to build a functional replica of an old-timey manual boating foghorn. He shows you how to build the basic horn by cutting apart a PVC sink trap and hacking it on to a off-the-shelf air pump. Then he does something I’d like to see more of in my own and others’ project tutorials…
Beautiful work from Instructables user ledartist. “Aurora” sports 162 RGB LEDs on a custom two-sided PCB and a fancy high-resolution PWM scheme to provide impressively smooth color transitions. Mesmerizing.
An easy, useful, inexpensive, and delightful improvisation from model-maker and Instructables user WiredWebbo101, who needed a handy tool to sand primer in some hard-to-reach places on his models. So he modified a disposable electric toothbrush by flattening and pointing the head and attaching a dart-shaped piece of sandpaper. Wonderful!
I’ve always enjoyed the mental exercise of planning a piece of plywood furniture to maximize efficient use of the material in the sheet stock, so I tend to appreciate good ones when they pop up, every now and again. Here’s a nice example, a 32-inch-tall staircase, with four one-foot steps, from Instructables user Pilgrim55.
A small serving of genius from Instructables user Supernewby. [via CRAFT]
