Collaborate Disseminate
Having any kind of shop is pretty great, no matter how large it may be or where it’s located. If the shop is in an outbuilding, you get to make …read more Continue reading Cool the Shop with a Thermal Battery-Based System
Happy New Year, though it may not be for Blackberry fans. The company that has so often had their products compared to a certain addictive substance recently announced that they …read more Continue reading Blackberry Will Run Out of Juice on January 4th
Maybe we’re biased, but we think everyone has a use for a macropad. It’s just a matter of time before a highly personalized set of speed controls starts to sound …read more Continue reading Snap-Together Macropad Does It Without Solder
When it comes down to it, we humans have two major concerns when venturing away from home for an extended period of time: what we’ll eat, and where we will …read more Continue reading Astronaut Food is Light Years Beyond Tang and Freeze-Dried Ice Cream
Like many of us, [BuildXYZ] has always wanted to own a pinball machine, but doesn’t have the space to justify buying such a big and heavy toy. But where there’s …read more Continue reading Clear Off the Coffee Table, It’s Pinball Time
Well, whaddya know? It seems that E. coli, the bane of Romaine and spinach everywhere, has at least one practical use. Researchers at Harvard have created a kind of 3D-printable …read more Continue reading It’s Printable, It’s Programmable, It’s E. coli
Remember early on in the pandemic when people would don protection just short of a full hazmat suit to go out, and wore rubber gloves to the grocery store? Was …read more Continue reading Ring In the New Year with DIY Bagpipes
Well, this is a pleasant surprise: it seems that industrial designer [Eric Strebel] recently got a hold of an industrial sewing machine to tackle the softer side of prototyping. What …read more Continue reading Simple Upgrades Make an Old Industrial Sewing Machine New Again
According to Google Translate, kleks is Polish for (and I’m cherry-picking definitions here) the word ‘splash’. Well, [deʃhipu]’s hole-ful and soulful Kleks Keyboard certainly made a splash with me. [deʃhipu] knows …read more Continue reading Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Hole-y Keyboard
When we met [Amy Makes Stuff] at the 2019 Hackaday Superconference, we were immediately impressed with the array of flexure mechanisms displayed on a board hanging around her neck. That …read more Continue reading Fabulous Flexure Mechanism Makes for Resetting Cat Calendar