Knots. How To Make A Tesla Turbine (Greenest Turbine) If you like this instructable please vote for it in the Epilog Challenge coming up.
I have spent alot of time and effort trying to make this easy to understand and easy for anyone out there to do. I hope you enjoy and please rate and vote. This Instructable will show you how to construct a turbine from reused parts and a couple of new materials. This turbine can achieve speeds of up to and possibly accede 15,000-20,000 running speed rpm's and top rpm's reaching around 30,000 to 35,000. This project can be run on about 40 psi but I have run mine on up to 100 psi and it will really started to scream (I would not sugest running it with that much pressure for more than a few seconds, I was just testing it to see what it could do, it was very dangerous and it could have or was close to flying apart). Also something that I would love to see done is to have someone build a boiler, this turbine and a small r/c vehicle that could be powered by this. Maker to Maker - Nibbler.
Magic Money Maker, Revealed! Making Mobiles (Schiffer Book for Artists) (9780764324741): Bruc. Online : How-To: Build a BEAM solarroller. Yesterday, I posted a reprinted from my old tech site, Street Tech, of a piece I did on Zach DeBord’s solar-powered vibrobots.
Here’s another piece from Street Tech, one on building solarrollers, a simple kind of solar-powered car common in beginner BEAM robotics. Like the vibrobots, this would make a perfect project for a family who’s just learned how to solder and wants to collaborate to build something fun (and cool!). – Gareth Gopod bless Flickr!
While searching on it recently to see if anyone else had built Mousey the Junkbot or a Symet or Solarroller inspired by my BEAM robotics articles in MAKE, Volume 06, I discovered Zach DeBord and his amazing BEAM creations. Glue² chronicle - Recoil Anchor Escapement. Picture and Movie A picture is the state which removed the pendulum.
Mechanisms. MAKE: Blog: Make: Online Toolbox: Jigs, clamps, and helping hand. In the Make: Online Toolbox, we try to focus on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your workflow, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without them.
And, in the spirit of the times, we pay close attention to tools that you can get on the cheap, make yourself, refurbish, etc. Last week, we looked at Ten tools you won’t want to live without. This week, we follow up with a piece on shop widgets for keeping your… ah… stuff together. What are some of yours? Share your favorite mechanical helpmates in the comments, with links, if possible. The first recommended tool is not a tool at all it’s an attitude towards this entire category of tools. Don’t forget to consider the cheapest and most readily-available clamps and jigs you likely have on hand.
And wooden blocks. MAKE: Blog: Weekend Project: 5-Minute Foam Factory. Oh Nooo!
A 404 Page! Looks like we can't find the page that you are looking for. Sorry about that. MAKE: Blog: Toolbox: Ten tools you won't want to live witho. In the Make: Online Toolbox, we try to focus on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your workflow, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without them.
And, in the spirit of the times, we pay close attention to tools that you can get on the cheap, make yourself, refurbish, etc. For this week’s column, I put the call out to the Maker Media staff, maker friends, and my cohort at Dorkbot DC and HacDC. I wanted to know what tools makers couldn’t live without, tools they might have gone years before discovering, but once the tool was in the box, they couldn’t bear the thought of not having it around. How-to fold an Origami Magic Rose Cube - Instructables - DIY, Ho. Mysterious illusion toy. - Instructables - DIY, How To, science, Unbelievable! Paper Toy Transformer - Instructables - DIY, How T. Open a padlock with a paperclip and... that's all... - Inst. Right about now you're probably thinking...
"what am I supposed to do with these? ".well. One of those "L"s is your pick, and one is your torsion wrench. Now your torsion wrench, in reality, is just a broken paperclip... so well have to use our heads. If you force your wrench, hook end up, about a 1/2 inch into the lower part of the keyway, NOT where the pins are, it should be fairly tight. ...now (next picture) if you bend it down, you'll get some torque (3rd pic) If the tension wrench slides outs when you apply slight pressure, try again, try different positions or areas in the lower keyway. you can bend and un-bend the paperclip tip in the keyway if you mess it up. note that you will most likely have to make a different tension wrench for every lock you want to pick, the wire will be bent differently depending on the size of the keyway.
Twisting pop up - Instructables - DIY, How To, art, craft. MAKE: Blog: Pitagora Suitch devices... Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Articulated Hand. Looking for a cool science fair project? Forget the exploding volcano, check out this Articulated Hand project! “My niece Sydney needed help for a 7th grade Science Fair project. I helped another friend’s daughter (Kaitlin) build an articulated hand for a project in the past and suggested we resurrect the project. The build is fun for the kids and I wanted to try some enhancements on the original idea. Materials: You can get everything you need at Lowe’s or Home Depot. 1 – 3/4″ hardwood dowel 1- 4″ x 1″ Pine plank (I’m calling it ’1×4′ here) 5 – bags of #216-1/2 small screw eyes (eyelets) 1 – roll of braided nylon string (one color for ligaments.
Unbelievable Paper Toy - Test Your IQ - The World's Biggest. Pop-pop or put-put steamboat made easy for children - The World& Children, from about 6 years old on, can make this real steam propelled boat under adult supervision.
This pop-pop or put-put steam boat requires neither soldering nor gluing. No drilling or puncturing is needed. It does involve an easy to make bending tool. Just piece of paper crazy paper toy - The World's Biggest S. Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Understanding St. “A stepper motor is a brushless, synchronous electric motor that can divide a full rotation into a large number of steps.
When commutated electronically, the motor’s position can be controlled precisely, without any feedback mechanism” (citation from Wikipedia) Any DIY Maker should understand the workings of stepper motors, Ask any Robot maker, just about any motion control a robot makes is done with stepper motors. Here are a few links that will educate you on what stepper motors are, how to understand their operation and how to control them. PMinMO.com has a wiki that provides a good basic introduction to stepper motors, related control mechanisms, and software associated with them. PMinMO.com A slightly more technical description on the stepper motor itself can be found on the Gecko Drive site Gecko Drive PDF document. Awesome paper toy - The World's Biggest Show & Tell - c.
Rat Trap Car - The World's Biggest Show & Tell - offbea. Pocket Screwdrivers. Mouse Trap car - The World's Biggest Show & Tell - craf. Mini airplane - The World's Biggest Show & Tell - craft. Unbelievable Paper Toy 2 :) - The World's Biggest Show &. Model Making Clamp Board - The World's Biggest Show & T. 100% Homemade Lathe - Instructables Make Cool How To and DIY [ca. Although I know other people have built lathes themselves, after an enormous amount of looking on Google, I saw most homemade lathes involve casting and milling, as well as using off the shelf components like chucks and tapers.
Being only a high school student, I wanted to experiment with a lathe without having to spend hundreds of dollars that I don't have. I ended up using almost all scrap materials from my basement, so there is no need to follow my materials choices. How to bind your own Hardback Book - My Results!! - Instructable. The Chaos Machine (Double Pendulum) - Instructables. Every physics department needs a double pendulum, so here's how I built ours. The big improvement is that the bottom pendulum can be locked in place. This turns the chaotic double pendulum into a non-chaotic physical pendulum. I'm going to be lazy and skip writing a big long introduction or explanation for this. The Wikipedia article on chaos thoery is pretty good and explains how chaotic systems are sensitive to initial conditions. The mathematics are too complex to accurately reproduce here, but the links below can show them correctly: (simulation) (simple explanation of chaos theory) Here's a neat version made from two square plates: You can buy a double pendulum from chaoticpendulums.com, but it's more fun to build your own.
Support Amazon.com for sponsoring this science fair contest, buy ball bearings online. Safety Standard shop and power tool warnings apply, but I have to provide a warning specific to the double pendulum. I fixed the video! Amazing Kite For Under $5 - Instructables. Build a CNC Router from Scratch (Part 2): Complete Video Tutoria. If you haven't seen part 1, your CNC may look like a three legged dog. This is a multi-part instructable that demonstrates how to build a CNC Router (a computer controlled router) from scratch.
CNC Machines can come in many shapes and sizes. Just look at these cool instructables on building a CNC. Build a CNC Router from Scratch (Part 1): Complete Video Tutoria. Completely build a CNC router from the ground up without plans, just your hands, some cheap materials and basic tools, and common sense. Did I mention you don't need plans? It's easy, and I guide you through a process of building that the measurements are derived through a logical approach, so all the pieces will fit and the structure will be solid. Moreover, you'll be able to build a CNC with almost any dimension. How to make simple "motion" sensors.