Nothing stinks up the house like a kitchen sink filled with filthy dish. Well, a full trash can will do it to a greater extent, however that’s a task for a later date. In what must be an overreaction to a constantly full sink of dishes at his London Hackerspace, [Tom] developed a web-connected dirty [...]
04 Jan
Instructables fellow member Fatratmatt has published in his blog site an awesome idea of creating a Steampunk analog clock. The clock not just shows the time, month, date and also day of the week but it is actually built with an alternative of playing a video clip of the accurate moon phase for that existing [...]
01 Jan
Cut your grass effortlessly with a Remote Control Solar Lawn Mower. Robert Smith, the man behind this amazing device used Google Sketchup to make a 3D model of the system before it was built. Just like with other robots electric wheelchair motors have been selected to drive this mower. Check out these two part videos [...]
27 Dec
Cover your switches and make it look nice and clean with this easy to do Framework Switch Cover. Materials for this project are the following (Lack table and Lillivi cloth) and all you need to do is measure the size of the switches, cut the back of the Lack table and removed the paper filling [...]
15 Dec
Feel the spirit of Christmas with this beautifully designed LED Christmas Display. The sign is made out of 134 different colored LEDs, and to make this happen some 74HC595 and 74HC14 chips are used. The sign is built to permanently display one message but you could upgrade this project with an LED matrix boards so [...]
15 Jun
The summer is upon us and once again, it’s time to tame mother nature. The grass is growing and the hedges are getting larger every day. What better time to try out Black and Decker’s wireless 24v tools? We’ll be reviewing two tools: the 24V Cordless Grass Trimmer (NST1024) and the 24V Cordless 24” Hedge [...]
27 Jan
Ryan from New-Zealand send us a nice writeup about his custom-made kitchen computer that apparently made his wife real happy. Check it out. Usual disclaimer: Please remember that as with any project involving mains power, make sure you know what you’re doing and do it safely, or don’t. Also respect your local laws and building code.
25 Jan
Keara from Share Some Sugar sent me sent me something interesting: As a fellow DIYer I am always looking for ways to save money on projects that I’m working on. Often when I work on projects I need tools that I don’t have. Sometimes those tools make sense to buy, other times I feel like [...]
01 Dec
Paul Overton posted this nice tutorial on how to make papercut portraits on his blog, DudeCraft. The best thing about this paper cutting technique can be applied to many medias and derived, like stencilling a T-Shirt. [ link ] [ via ]
21 Nov
Thinking of building the Moog VCF I posted yesterday? You might want to check out this post about using Cupric Chloride to etch PCBs. Usual disclaimers apply. [ link ]
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16 Jan