Geo has a really good Instructable on replacing the pads on your car’s disc brakes, it isn’t that hard and as one of the commenters (and MAKE pal Radiorental) says “Seriously – of all the odd jobs someone should learn this ought to be top of the list. A brake job at your local shop […]
A bike restoration master restores the paint job on a vintage CCM-brand bike.
These appear to be photos from a soap box derby race in Germany, a couple nice high tech and low tech entries. Thanks Tom! – Link. Related: In MAKE 07 we have an article Spinout by Colin Berry – I don’t really want to say anything more than it’s pretty much one of my favorite […]
Here’s a photographic guide on identifying the different hi-riser cars out in the wild. I saw a sweet Donk on Valencia (SF) over the weekend, but wasn’t sure what it was called until I saw this… – “Since the creation of the wheel, man has been on a quest to make them bigger and better. […]
These farmers aren’t messing around, they are drag racing on completely tricked out tractors – [via] – Link (photo gallery).
One of my favorite “Maker-made” films of all time is Claude Lelouch’s “Rendezvous” – “On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. No […]
Here’s an improved Atmel ATtiny13V solar charger, source and schematic included, Dick writes – “Batwatch is a simple monitor for a solar panel battery charger, using an Atmel ATtiny13V. It periodically measures the charge current and battery voltage, and shows them by blinking two LEDs. I built this circuit into the plug of a VW […]
