For those leathermen(and women) out there – The leatherman tool company has released a new slimmed down multitool product, clocking in at a little over 5 ounces. Rain Day magazine shares their hands-on impressions: The Leatherman Skeletool is a minimalist’s multi-tool. It has a pair of plier, a blade, wire cutters, bit driver, and a […]
Artist, photographer, and laser engraver Joe Mansfield will custom-engrave your Moleskine cover. He also sells an Artist Series. This one was done by Will Scobie. Custom Laser Engraved Moleskine Notebooks – Link
While doing research on a Make: Books project, I came across this awesome site of engineering information covering materials, design, processes, engineering formulas and math, all sorts of delectable goodies. The site has the unfortunate name eFunda (I thought it was an online lender or something). It stands for “Engineering Fundamentals.” EFunda prides themselves on […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Member Cmorris shares a quick tip for making your vise a little quieter – just add a couple rubber o-rings. – Link Related: Make a survival hand-vise – Link
We asked a few really smart makers of fashion, hardware, software and electronics to tell us what is on their wish list this holiday season (we like to call them intelligent designers) and boy did they come up with some good ones! Check out the dozens of ideas and gifts they put together that may […]
Paul writes in with some good tips for new welders… – “I’m on a couple of welding mailing lists, and am a certified welder myself. Recently, a discussion has arisen on one of these lists regarding an inexpensive MIG welder aquired from Lowe’s. The individual in question was having difficulty getting a decent weld using […]
Under the wrist rest of this keyboard are 37 music keys for MIDI keyboard playing. For $44 it’s not a bad deal, but there aren’t any Mac/Linux drivers yet so I’m going to hold off for a bit – [via] Link.
