M writes – “I got sick of waiting for my PCB’s to be made externaly and therefore wanted to be able to produce PCB’s for my prototypting needs by myself. Now, it is not too difficult to create even double sided PCB’s at home. However, having the vias conect the two layers by hand is […]
Corey writes – “This weekend I spent a lot of time working on my MAME cabinet. In the control panel, each button and joystick needed a 1 1/8″ hole drilled. This meant 20 holes in my configuration. With my handy Craftsman battery powered drill and 2 fully charged batteries I went to work. I was […]
VeryVito writes – “I’d love to have a four-post lift in my garage, but alas, I’m a renter (so I can’t have one installed without fuss) and relatively unwealthy. Thus, I had to search for a practical solution that would allow me to get to the underside of my 1800 without breaking the bank. I […]
Charles writes – “We recently had to replace a cordless drill and had a heck of a time plowing through all the specs to figure out what diffrentiates the 40+ drills you can get at Home Depot alone. When were were done, we wrote it all up for our blog, Toolmonger, and included the spreadsheet […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Simpleproof made a workbench from an old refrigerator, nice work! Link.
Silas writes – “Handbook of hardware pinouts, cables schemes and connectors layouts. This collection is ideal for the maker! You will have a hard time NOT finding what you need!” – Link.
Nixie tube clock kits ($150) – check out the PDF to get an idea of what you’re in for – “This kit uses a microcontroller and discrete logic chips to provide the logic for a 12 hour clock based on IN-14 nixie tubes. It has hours, minutes and seconds, with colon separators. The kit is […]
