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.
Once you’ve made it through the massive lines with your brand new phone, ecouterre suggests you head home to whip up this simple recycled leather case.
Our maker compatriot, Alan Parekh over at Hacked Gadgets, has made this odd but cool multimeter clock, an homage to the Simpson 260 meter, using three meters to display hours, minutes, and seconds. Multimeter Clock – Styled after the Simpson 260 Multimeter BTW: This project got picked up by Design News, for their Gadget Freak […]
Reinventing Edison: Build Your Own Lightbulb Kit is a fun science kit designed to excite and engage experimenters of all ages as they recreate the experiments that lead to the development of the first real light bulb. Build your own working light bulb using the included safety vacuum chamber and a number of different filament materials including carbon and tungsten.
We love our friends at iFixit.com, but we have to admit, they may be slightly off their nut. Witness this email we just got from them: We went to extreme lengths to acquire the iPhone 4. Kyle flew to Japan, expecting to take advantage of the 16-hour time difference. He had his camping gear all […]
The glue that holds rear view mirrors in place is amazing stuff, that breaks all the normal rules about adhesives: it holds a joint between two extremely smooth, entirely nonporous surfaces that are subject to near-constant mechanical vibration, extremes of temperature, and ongoing exposure to UV radiation. And it holds for years, even decades. If you are faced with one of those “impossible” gluing problems requiring a strong metal-glass or glass-glass bond, try using a rear view mirror repair kit on it. They can be had for a couple bucks from most hardware stores.
