Sean Ragan welded together his own flask for green sand casting of aluminum. A flask is the two-part frame that holds the sand for this method of casting. His is better than a wooden flask (which can’t handle the high temperature if you accidentally spill some molten aluminum), and his method of construction is quite […]
PrintingPlans.com has free plans [PDF’s] for making your own 4-Color press. The key to multi color printing is accuracy and repeatability. Make sure if you attempt to build this that you build it very sturdy as mentioned on the website. This four color, one station printing press was designed and built by Michael Phipps and […]
Looking for some motivation to finish that bioluminescent fungus project? Well look no further – io9 wants to encourage mad scientists in every field, but especially in the area of synthetic biology. That’s because synthetic biologists are the people who are going to build new life forms, like ligers and unicorns and people with claws […]
I wish all projects on the web had as many pictures as this one. This how-to, by Brian Trump, covers installation of a car alarm with remote start and a few other features. The only problem is, I can’t remember the last time I heard an alarm go off and people actually bothered to look. […]
The Bee Source has a lot of useful information on bee keeping. What got my attention were all the free plans for building things like a honey extractor, solar wax melter and the Bee Vac. Most, if not all, of the plans have a web page and a PDF download. I never knew you could […]
This website goes into great detail about the process of photographing coins. Yes I know, coin photography is a very small field, but these techniques can be used to photograph any small object. Learn more about Macro photography of coins
This seems like a fairly inexpensive and easy way to get into making your own hollow cast parts. Unfortunately there isn’t a how-to, but between this video, and the “related” post below, you should be able to make your own. If there is enough interest from our readers I could always do a “Build: Your […]
