Web site Ecobites details how to cook with the power of the sun with your own DIY solar cooker. In a nutshell, the author rounded up a bit of plywood and aluminum foil to create a reflective parabolic surface capable of focusing the heat of the sun to the cooking surface—another great idea to add to the list of unconventional heat/fire-starting methods.
我喜爱自己进行一些很有趣的拆解，于是便无意中做出了这根简单、不过便宜又实用的吉他拾音器。压电元件的多功能性着实震撼了我。它们在电子爵士鼓、水下传声器、跑鞋和音乐贺卡中有如此之多的用处。 ... 查看全文
[Gabriel] put together an impressive writeup of his autonomous catamaran, Atlantis(PDF). It was certainly done as an academic project, but there's a thorough explanation of the math logic behind the c... 查看全文
[Nick] sent in this sweet midi pedal organ. [Seffan] modded an old set of organ pedals with the cheapest midi keyboard he could find. Each pedal was equipped with a switch mechanism, so it was just a ... 查看全文
A fabricated trough prep sink with electronic interface that controls rinsing functions and garbage disposal synchronization. Developed in heavy collaboration with Kohler kitchen design and engineerin... 查看全文
When his Casio CFX-400 scientific calculator watch broke after 10 years of day-to-day use, David Jones went looking for a replacement. Unfortunately similar watches on the market today just didn’t cut... 查看全文
[rustlabs] put together an interesting looking gaming gun for FPS games. He wrote up his build and how to use a webcam to provide gun tracking for games like Half Life 2. He gutted a keyboard to provi... 查看全文
i’m thrilled to announce our first diy contest winner of the day. fourth place, and a hearty congratulations, goes to angie johnson and her george nelson inspired jewelry case! angie was inspired by t... 查看全文
todays second diy project is from 2008 diy contest finalist kate dixon. kate created these fantastic framed sconces using inexpensive outdoor sconces from home depot. i love the endless chances for cu... 查看全文
over the next few months, in addition to our regular diy wednesday column, ill be posting the full instructions for all of our 2008 diy contest finalists (as well as a few dozen that werent finalists ... 查看全文
By Jessica Hupp DIY offers a great way to take on personal projects and make things your own. Although often DIY focuses primarily on home improvement, the DIY ethic expands out to arts, technology, a... 查看全文