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A little dumpster-diving let [Nick Skvarla] build his vacuum form machine for around $5. He pulled a vacuum cleaner out of the trash, which was tossed away because of a broken power plug. He put it into a box which had been sealed with spray foam and used a piece of pegboard for the top side of the enclosure. He takes a piece of 40 mil PETG plastic from the hobby shop and mounts it in a wooden … [Read more...]
Learn to manufacture your own solenoids and then use them to play the xylophone by watching the tutorial video after the break. [Humberto Evans] and the team at Nerd Kits do a great job of not only manufacturing the coils, but the xylophone itself. The bars are machined from some aluminum stock and they take you down the rabbit hole with they why's and how's of engineering the keys. We're … [Read more...]
We like using acrylic in our projects but there are a couple of tricky techniques, particularly getting clean cuts for glued edges and bending the material into curves. [Giorgos Lazaridis] has a great solution to the latter, a dedicated acrylic heater. Instead of using an oven to warm the material for bending he's using localized heat produced by a high-powered lamp pulled from an old laser … [Read more...]
This is a steam-powered record player; awesome. But wait, that's not all. Watch the video after the break for about two and a half minutes and you'll realize that it's also a Rickroll. No, you're not getting baited into clicking through to Rick Astley's music video, the LP that's playing on the turntable is a copy of "Never Gonna Give You Up"; all kinds of awesome. This all started with a steam … [Read more...]
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