How-To: Compressed air system for haunt props
Good tutorial on putting together a pneumatic power system for “home imagineering,” as as the folks at Phantasmechanics call it. We’ve blogged their stuff a couple times before.
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A Better Way to Slice a Pumpkin
A clever modification to the traditional way of cutting an opening in a pumpkin.
Automatic image index-maker software
As you can see, Montage takes all the work out of combining a bunch of individual images into an array of images, dealing automatically with all the resizing, cropping, arranging, and/or labeling headaches automatically.
From BoobTube to SmartTube
Tired of reading all of those racist, anti-Semitic, gross, nasty, hateful, and just plain dirt-dumb stupid comments on YouTube? Now you can make everyone as smart as a rocket scientist, or at least as smart as a Nobel Prize-winning physicist (and prankster, juggler, painter, bongo player, and lock-picker), namely Richard Feynman. FeynTube is a Greasemonkey […]
Bildr: componentized, crowdsourced DIY how-tos
What Bildr is attempting to do is very admirable. It makes good sense. It will be glorious, if it happens. Something similar has been talked about in tech DIY circles for years. The idea is to create a visual Web-based library of componentized instruction sets, “building blocks,” for doing various hardware and software constructions. Put […]
How-To: PVC pipe vacuum dust separator
Instructables user neorazz has posted a tutorial on how to build a dust separator attachment for your shop vac. It is described as “cyclonic,” which it may or may not actually be (see the comments), but it does, apparently, work quite well at separating out the heavier bits of flotsam (which ends up in the bucket) from the actual dust (which goes on to the vacuum).
IFixit’s sponsored blender teardown
Now this is a welcomed development. The company Blendtec provided iFixIt with one of their Total Blenders to take apart and document. As you know, we’re always prattling on about “If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It” and other litanies from The Maker’s Bill of Rights. This is a company that apparently understands […]
