Maker Workshop PDF – Shopping Cart Chair
Check out the PDF for detailed instructions for building your own shopping cart chair. Take a look at the Maker Workshop segment with John Park.
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Maker Profile – Fire Sculpture on MAKE: television
These women are fired up: The Flaming Lotus Girls, a women-centric maker collaborative, creates gargantuan, fierce, flame-breathing sculptures. This popular Bay Area organization boasts diverse membership, welcoming members from all backgrounds. Whether they’re artists, lawyers, mothers or scientists, all Flaming Lotus Girls share two things in common: a desire to get their hands dirty, and […]
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Building a HF start box
A high-frequency (HF) start box is a device used in AC arc welding that allows you to start an arc welder without having to “scratch-start” the arc. You used to be able to buy such an add-on device; apparently, they’re now hard to find. William F. Dudley Jr. decided to build his own and shares […]
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DIY plasma cutter
Even if you’re like me and never win them, you’ve got to love the huge contests on Instructables. I spent at least 3 hours last weekend Googling for ‘DIY plasma cutter’ and could only come up with cocktail-napkin drawings. This week, there’s a well-done homemade plasma cutter entry in the $20,000 Sears gift card contest. […]
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Roadside blind welding in Malawi
Next to an intersection with the main road to Mulanje works a group of men with basic tools. One of them was actively welding with a scratch built arc welder. Wire was wrapped around a group of metal plates, and the whole thing was housed in a basic wooden frame. To turn it on, the […]
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Cheap welding for punks
From the all-important step #2 of this Instructable: “Don’t Poison Gas Attack Yourself, etc.” Useful for anyone who wants to make welds without spending much: Welding is usually the easiest and quickest way to build something. You just put the parts next to each other and weld them. You don’t have to drill bolt holes […]
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Maker Faire Austin on Fox
Some impressive Austin Makers were interviewed on Fox this morning: There are a lot of inventors in Central Texas and some are creating some pretty unusual things. If you want to get up close and play with some of the inventions then you won’t want to miss the Maker Faire this upcoming weekend. FOX 7’s […]
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