Last week, seven students converged at the Madagascar Institute for that facility’s first class of the new year: “Intro to MIG Welding,” taught by the “connoisseur of terror” himself, Hackett (from TV’s Stuck with Hackett). A true group of student-makers, the class ranged in experience from absolute novices who’d never used power tools before to […]
Matt Jones made these Ojai Post Office Christmas Ornaments for his friends who just moved there.
Jeri Ellsworth shares her simple secret to learning electronics: give your permission to make mistakes!
Instructables user polymythic is working on a simple haptic feedback device, called Project HALO, which will allow the wearer to ‘feel’ the environment around it using vibration feedback
This seems pretty amazing- Mr.Kim and John Sarik used a 3d printer configured as a plotter to print their own transistors.
Dirk Vander Kooij is taking 3d printing to a whole new scale with his series of chairs made from recycled fridge plastic.
It’s probably not much good against the rain, but this handy bit of urban fieldcraft from YouTuber sumitsumit would be hard to beat for showing off your DIY-fu at the local hackerspace, coffeeshop, or school. Pretty much guaranteed to impress that attractive gentleman or lady in your engineering class. It takes about 20′ of rope, includes an adjustable shoulder-strap, and–I suspect–could probably be tied or untied in ten seconds or less with practice. I don’t want to spoil sumitsumit’s reveal, so I didn’t include a screen-cap, but you can scan forward to 4:20 to see the finished product. [via Boing Boing]
