Synthesizer. Cool. Copper Plating and Etching Altoids Tins. UPDATE: There's some great information on this page and it's comments, but I've recently published a far more comprehensive article here: Etching Tins with Salt Water and Electricity With this project I wanted to try a number of new things: Magazine pages as cheap toner transfer mediaCopper electroplatingEtching Altoid tins with a salt water solution The copper plating met with mixed success, but the other two methods resulted in some nice pieces. Note: blue vitriol and muriatic acid are archaic names for copper sulfate and hydrochloric acid. Magazine pages for toner transfer: While looking for information on transferring toner using a fuser assembly from an old laser printer I ran across several websites where people suggested using glossy magazine pages for transferring printed circuit board images to a copper substrate.
Preparing the Altoids tins turned out to be harder then I predicted. Next we: Copper Plating Altoids Tins: From the picture below, this appears to work. Foom! Build A Plasma Speaker. Blog Archive » Motion Sensor Switched Output Hack. Citizen engineer. Homemade Flame Thrower. Hydroelectricity: Hydroelectric Bucket Will Gladly Help You Miss the Point of Camping. Homemade Plastic - Instructables - DIY, How To, craft. This is a quick and simple method for making your own general-purpose plastic. The constituent ingredients are milk and vinegar. That's it. The total cost is less than $10, possibly less than $5 if you can get a good deal. The plastic is moldable, and has a consistency of soggy cheese (I certainly hope I never encounter cheese that's anything like this!).
As for the final product's strength and whatnot, I would classify it as "okay. " All in all, I would say this is mostly useful for folks looking for a fast and dirt cheap alternative to much better products available to the average joe. This is my first Instructable, so bear with. How to Make a Digital Picture Frame - DPF from an Old Laptop or Notebook.