Milk-crate crab pots
Clever use of milk crates, crab pots!
Made On Earth
Build a custom volume pedal for your synth
This hack shows how to build a custom volume pedal for various synthesizers out of a discarded electric organ called a Baldwin Model 5. The organ in question was built before potentiometers had been invented so the maker added the necessary ingredient to make his pedal work. Lots more info at the link below. Swell […]
Dynohub multi-pole alternator
Gotwind is a Ben Jandrell’s (Shropshire, England) DIY site for renewable energy projects. The site has a number of cool projects and technical info and tutorials. Here’s an excerpt from his page on the Sturmey Archer GH6 Dynohub: The Sturmey Archer GH6 Dynohub was designed as a means of generating electrical lighting power for bicycles […]
Cardboard bike
A product design student at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK wanted to address the problem of prevalent bike theft so he created this bike for around US$30. It doesn’t say whether this was just for the frame or for everything. And no, it doesn’t melt in a rainstorm. He used hexacomb board, which is […]
Bizarre car accidents
Dark Roasted Blend has a gallery of seriously strange and guiltily entertaining car accidents. Oops! – Weirdest Accidents
Bike washing machine
A middle school student in GuangDong, China made a bike washing machine, not many details but ready for a re-make via Tim. More: DIY lamp from an old washing machine barrel. The pedal powered washing machine. Non-Invasive washing machine cycle detector project.
Record player turned into train tracks while its needle drives over them
Although we’ve seen train car record players before such the kind that “drive” over the record platter itself and play tracks as it moves in a circle. This “Sound Chaser” is actually a train track made from old records that have been spliced together to look like a real track. As the train drives over […]
