Here’s an interesting stocking stuffer, probably one of those tools most of us wouldn’t have in our toolbox, but would relish once we’d used one. Via the Cool Tools review: I’m giving gimlet sets to a few lucky in-laws this year. I’ve found them to be a great time saver whenever I need a hole […]
Flickr user arms22 came up with this little “hack” to add at-a-glance color-coding to the resistor chart in his Maker’s Notebook. You could also just do neater colored squares, or outline the boxes for each color name, so you wouldn’t have to color in the entire row. arms22’s photostream More: Maker’s Notebook homepage In the […]
Neil sent me this link to a cool trick for holding round-head screws while you cut the threads shorter. Cut a thin slit in a correspondingly-threaded nut, through one of the points. A rotary tool with an abrasive disk is probably a good tool for this. Then you can thread the screw in and grip the nut across the flats with pliers or a vise. Compression across the width of the slit will hold the screw firmly in place, and you can use the flat side of the nut to guide the saw.
The Maker Shed has put together a great electronics tool kit, with all of the essential tools one needs to get started in electronics. The kit includes a 30w adjustable soldering iron, a digital multimeter, a soldering stand, a Panavise Jr, various handtools, solder, spools of hook-up wire, and a Maker’s Notebook. It even comes […]
New in the Maker Shed, our Make: Electronics toolkit! Do you want to learn to solder? Not sure what tools you need? We took the trouble out of searching for all the right tools for the job.
Sugru is a lot like epoxy putty, except that it sets on exposure to air (so you don’t have to knead two different components together) and that it dries to a soft, pliable, bouncy silicone elastomer. It sticks to most surfaces and bonds especially well to metals. [via Hack a Day]
Although they could probably use some more exciting branding, Concrete Cloth from the UK’s Concrete Canvas company is a pretty cool idea. The cloth, which is draped over forming members and then set by exposure to water (as, for instance, from rain), has a projected lifespan of 10 years.
