A CD, A Nickel, A Paper Clip, and Some Hot Glue
Plus a little treasure from nature. From Mrballeng, Instructables user and craftsman. I have rarely, if ever, seen anyone use pick-up materials so creatively or so skillfully. Hats off to you.
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Post-Apocalyptic Pan Pipes
Bullet casing, shell casing, cartridge case, pan pipes, flute.
Insulated Canteen From No-Refill Propane Bottle
Cool Instructable from user hpstoutharrow. Of course these propane bottles are not meant to be opened, so you have to be careful to follow a sensible procedure, but it seems to me like hpstoutharrow has done a good job in providing that. Commenters there seem to agree.
Once any residual flammable gas is safely vented, both valves are removed by drilling, and the bottom of the bottle is cut out to insert a 20 oz plastic beverage bottle, which has been shrunk slightly by exposure to boiling water. The neck of the soda bottle protrudes where the tank’s center valve was, and is secured there with an o-ring. Spray-in foam insulation holds the liner in place and insulates its contents from the metal bottle, and the bottom of the tank is reattached for appearance’s sake. [via Hack a Day]
How-To: Arcade Button MIDI Controller
Instructables user fraganator writes: Having a hardware interface to your favourite music / DJ / VJ software can really open up doors in your creativity. The most widespread form of hardware control to your PC for such applications is a MIDI based controller. A MIDI controller can send and receive MIDI messages to your PC, […]
How-To: Sprocket Hole Photos
With digital photography as the most prevalent method of capturing pictures these days, nothing says nostalgia like these 35mm panoramas that are captured over the entire height of the negative. In this excellent Instructable by Darin Barry, you’ll learn how to hack a cheap medium format camera to expose your image so that it bleeds […]
BeeSim Game Using LilyPad and XBee
To teach children about complexity theory, a group from Indiana University created an electronic game called BeeSim using LilyPad Arduinos and XBee radios: During the game children wear a Bee puppet wrist band with embedded electronics to allow for game play. The children have a finite amount of time (45 seconds) to collect and deposit […]
How-To: LED Sneakers
These LED sneakers look like so much fun! Learn to make your own light-up kicks from i am jen.
