Homemade clamps from plastic pipe
Tim shows you how to make these handy clamps via Platt Monfort’s technique – making your own from plastic pipe… – Link.
Tools
Super WristMag – Magnetic wrist band for holding stuff
This pretty clever, a magnetic wrist band for holding parts, tools, anything that can stick to magnets… you could make a DIY version, but $6.50 ain’t such a bad deal either… Super Strong with 6 neodymium magnets! Rated to hold 6 pounds of steel parts. Saves time by keeping steel parts close at hand. Ends […]
Hypnocube- 3D LED kit
“The Mad Scientist” sent in these Hypnocubes, they are 3D LED cubes that come in 3-channel Red-Green-Blue (with 4096 possible colors), 2-channel Red-Green (256 colors), and 2-channel Red-Blue (256 colors). The kits are available too, starting at $300-ish – Link. Update: Dirkus writes – “Actually, the cheapest kit they have is $120, plus $10 shipping […]
Print free graph paper
Neat, I love what this Digg user wrote about PDFpad! – “Use it to plan your next project submission to MAKE magazine. Stumbled on this one at work. Allows you to print 7 types of graph paper in the comfort of your home home (Cartesian, Logarithmic, Engineering, Polar, Isometric, Hexagonal(for you AD&D folks), Probability) with […]
Keva Planks – The ultimate building blocks
Peter writes – “The normal building blocks that you get for kids or play Jenga with don’t come close to the precision that Keva achieves with every single piece of wood in their Keva Planks. Each block is a precisely made 1/4 inch thick, 3/4 inch wide and 4 1/2 inches long piece of maple. […]
Multimachine – Open Source machine tool
Pat writes – “Need an almost free machine shop to fit in your closet or even one that fills your garage? Need a free hand drill to make 1” holes in hardened steel? Need some simple castings with a tensile strength near that of cast iron? Need 75 cent bearings to replace $5000 roller bearings? […]
Design a workshop – in miniature
Planning out your workshop usually means a lot of moving stuff around and trial/error, here’s another approach, make a miniature model… Pfred1 writes – “I used the architectural scale 1/4 inch to the foot as my scale. Heck, after a while it was sort of fun to make scale models of all of my junk. […]