ChipDB, a new quick reference for ICs
Instead of digging through hundred-page PDF datasheets to find the pinout of a microcontroller or logic chip, you can use a simple URL scheme to get the data right away.
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Knot reference wallet card
This maker was inspired by an old post here on Make: Online, of the “Top Ten Most Useful Knots,” to create a wallet card of several useful knots. Infocard: Useful Knots More: Top Ten Most Useful Knots
Toolbox: Shop bookshelf (mechanics, tools, and misc)
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your workflow, […]
Tools explained by a do-it-yourselfer
Mark posted this classic Devil’s Dictionary of a DIYer’s definition of tools on Dinosaurs and Robots: DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings objects across the room, denting the freshly-painted vertical stabilizer which you […]
Toolbox: Shop bookshelf (electronics and MCUs)
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your workflow, […]
Sustainable Building Sourcebook
From Austin Energy, here’s a good overview of a variety of sustainable construction technologies. Much of this is Austin-centric, but the reading references and overviews are broadly applicable. For example, here’s the start of the graywater systems page: In Central Texas, any opportunity to reuse water should be taken because we are using up more […]
Seriously screwed up
If your all-time favorite simple machine is the helical inclined plane, if words like “panhead,” “countersink,” and “Pozidriv” have a mysteries hold over you, if your idea of fun is looking at vintage YouTube footage of Soviet-era screw-drive vehicles (and whose isn’t?), you’ll want to bookmark the singular hardware high weirdness that is the Screw […]
