Ever come out of a long kit build with a splitting headache from the solder fumes? Me too. A benchtop solder fume extractor’s been on my shopping list for some time, but to be honest, I wasn’t very excited about another piece of expensive safety equipment. I recently had the chance to try out an […]
Anyone who has an otherwise indispensable PanaVise, Jr. knows that that the turning knob can be sort of a pain. MAKE Flickr pool member Triggerdog7 got fed up with his and came up with this larger, easier to crank wooden jobby. Nice. Panavise Jr Upgrade Crank
Inexpensive to make, and a lot better looking than the generic “tin can” variety.
I actually don’t care too much, personally, for the way this looks, but serious kudos to designer Nicola Zocca for outside-the-box thinking. What other clever off-label uses for polyolefin shrink film are we missing? [via NOTCOT]
Here’s a fun conversation from Foo Camp between Dale Dougherty and Steven Levy on the 25th anniversary edition of his ground-breaking book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. This is one of those books that changed the direction of my life. How about you?
Before After The latest issue of Wired (and Wired Online) has a photo essay of dream makeovers of garage, media room, kitchen, etc. Here’s the garage example: THE GARAGE A messy garage is a missed opportunity. Give yourself the souped-up gear cave you deserve. That’s what aviation nut Greg Gambina did. He worked with wired […]
Instructables user ramanff mounted a fiber-optic coupled 1W IR laser diode in a pen body to create this cool wood-burning tool.
