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Replacing a 3D printer’s extruder with a cutting blade seems like an easy way to do things like vinyl cutting, but you cannot just put on any blade and expect …read more Continue reading Turning an Old 3D Printer Into a Vinyl Cutter for Cheap
Pallets are a wonderful way to package goods and move them around, but especially the wooden ones have a very finite lifespan. This means that many of them are discarded …read more Continue reading From Scrappy Pallet Wood to Fancy Tea Tray
Before the Apple MacBook there was the Apple iBook, fruity 1999 colors included. These PowerPC-based laptops targeted low-cost PC-compatible laptops much like the iMac did, albeit it the latter with …read more Continue reading Restoring Apple’s Terrible but Awesome iBook Laptop
It’s possible to get a pretty good deal on used Toyota Prius cars, but as with all hybrid cars that also means a used battery pack and resulting issues. In …read more Continue reading On the Wisdom of Replacing a NiMH Module in a Prius Battery Pack
After my recent misadventures setting up an OpenWrt installation on a scruffy e-waste-level x86 PC, quite a few people chimed in with feedback, criticism and friendly hostility regarding things like …read more Continue reading Revisiting Making Your Own Internet Router in 2026
Generally, the frame and other structural parts of an FDM printer use steel or similar, but could you use wood instead for that truly artisan look? As [Mitsu Makes] demonstrates …read more Continue reading Making a Zippy FDM Printer out of Wood
Recently [Throaty Mumbo] took a poke at another daft idea, in the form of loading Sega Genesis games off vinyl records. Although a whacky idea, it’s made possible through the …read more Continue reading Loading Sega Genesis Games Off a Vinyl Record
Mini game controllers with buttons and joysticks that move like the real deal are a pretty cool keychain and fidget toy, but at least for some of us there’s this …read more Continue reading Keychain GameCube Controller Made Functional
Along with layer lines, FDM printers are notorious for being neither air- nor water-tight due to the countless very small gaps between the layers. This is very unfortunate if you …read more Continue reading Testing Various Ways to Waterproof FDM Printed Parts
Amidst the ongoing RAM & storage apocalypses, Mad Max-esque scenes are unsurprisingly developing, with the eMMC recycling project by [Chase Fournier] from a pair of XBox One S (‘XBone’) mainboards …read more Continue reading Recycling Two XBox One Consoles into a 10 GB USB Flash Drive