Collaborate Disseminate
Lego make lots of neat floral arrangements these days, and even little Christmas trees, too. While they’re fun to build out of tiny little blocks, they’re a little small for …read more Continue reading 3D Printing A Big Lego Christmas Tree
There are plenty of hard jobs out there, like founding your country’s nuclear program, or changing the timing chain on a BMW diesel. Making your own mechanical watch from scratch …read more Continue reading Making a Mechanical Watch From Scratch Is Fine Work
[mars91] had an interesting problem to solve—his girlfriend often requested Diet Coke, but yelling for one across the apartment was frustrating and impractical. A dedicated Diet Coke button seemed like …read more Continue reading Building a Diet Coke Button
Embossed leather belts can be deliciously stylish. However, the tooling for making these fashionable items is not always easy to come by, and it rarely comes cheap. What do we …read more Continue reading Embossing Leather With a Pipe Bender and 3D Printed Tooling
Analog radio broadcasts are pretty simple, right? Tune into a given frequency on the AM or FM bands, and what you hear is what you get. Or at least, that …read more Continue reading Subchannel Stations: The Radio Broadcasts You Didn’t Know Were There
[Piffpaffpoltrie] had a problem. They found the InLine VA40R to be a perfectly usable multimeter, except for a couple of flaws. Most glaring among these were the tiny sockets for …read more Continue reading Multimeter Gets Socket Upgrade To Use Nicer Probes
[Peter Mount] had a simple problem. He’d treated himself to a retro purchase in the form of a BBC Master 128—a faster sequel to the BBC Micro Model B. The …read more Continue reading Old BBC Micro Gets Some Disk Help From A Raspberry Pi
Dial-up modems used to be the default way of accessing the Internet, but times have moved on. They’re now largely esoteric relics from a time gone by. With regular old …read more Continue reading Getting Dial-Up To Work Over VOIP Isn’t Always Easy
Don’t ask us why, but hackers and makers just love building clocks. Especially in the latter case, many like to specialize in builds that don’t even look like traditional timepieces, …read more Continue reading Fibonacci Clock Looks Like Beautiful Modern Art
We talk a lot about patent disputes in today’s high-tech world. Whether it’s Wi-Fi, 3D printing, or progress bars, patent disputes can quickly become big money—for lawyers and litigants alike. …read more Continue reading The Battle Over Vanishing Spray