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Morse Practice Kits - Easy to build Morse oscillators
The kit consists of pairs of morse practice kits. Each pair of kits can work stand alone or with the included 5M as a morse transmit/receive station.
Ideal for Scouts communication or electronic badges or as a simple to construct electronic kit for anyone.
Batteries ARE included with a long life 3V button cell (UK only), or you can have the option of a three cell AAA battery ho... Read More #kits#makers#stem#science
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On Friday, I had pan-fried, left over, macaroni cheese for dinner. The START / STOP buttons on my microowave have stopped working, so I couldn't reheat it.
I'm trying to fix the buttons now. They are on a flat plastic panel and seem to have contacts that get better contact when pressed, and I think that they now longer "spring" open again.
Van De Graaff (VDG) Generator kit - V2 - 150mm - 40,000V of sparky fun.
The 150mm Van De Graaff kit is designed for kids (or adults) to learn about "static" electricity by actually building a working device. A small High voltage generator that will achieve 30,000 to 40,000 volts of "static" electricity. The 150mm van De Graaff generator is a complete Van de Graaff system, comprising of a Polished Stainless Steel Dome, a high speed motor, dissimil... Read More #kits#makers#stem#science
Thanks for your answers everyone. Looks like linen and casein might be the front-runner for now. I’m going to give it a go. It will be a conversation point when people ask me why my bike smells like rotten milk.
Does anybody know if there’s a traditional composite material that behaves something like fibreglass? As in fibre/fabric laid up in a binder of some sort to make a stiff material in arbitrary forms.
Paper mache is one but it’s too weak (I think, maybe there's a super version?). I'm considering things like cotton or flax in casein glue or pine resin... but I doubt it will work.
(And my last casein glue experiment stunk like rotten milk for weeks!)
I should clarify, the point is to be biodegradable, I already know I can mix epoxies with flax fibre for a pretty strong composite, for example. But epoxies aren't biodegradble. #maker#makers#LowTech
YouTube has been trying to convince me to watch videos from NerdForge for a while now. Last night, I actually watched one.
a) damn she's good. So skilled at so many things.
b) just went back and watched one of her / their first videos from 7 years ago. It was... not bad. A very reasonable #makers video on building an Iron Throne phone charge.
It's impressive to see how she/they (her and her partner filming it) went from such an "average" starting point to 3.16M subscribers, & a huge studio.
That… amazon price feels sus. Quick check of the 1 star verified purchase reviews. Oh, look. They lied about the metal hardness and they self-destruct during the 1st use (2nd pic) & aren't straight. 🤦♀️ i HATE cheap Chinese crap & their seller's complete lack of morals.
RC2040 - Retro emulated Z80 CP/M computer kit
The RC2040 is a PI PICO emulated RC2014 kit, with CP/M-80. It is capable of running the stock ROM images currently supported by the RC2014 (except RomWBW) which gives you a number of monitors and ROM based BASIC.
SD card and Pico come programmed with the RC2040 Software and RC2014 ROMS and use the same FFS python transfer software as the SD card RC2014 kit.
#3DPrinting & #Makers in the US: Where the hell do you find metric sized magnets? All the magnet sites seem to be imperial only… except for "mounting magnets" ?!?!
Decisions were made, and I am reasonably confident they were not good. In the time it took me to figure out this janky-ass solution I could have just re-printed the jig at a different height.
This whole set up is so sketch that I think I will do that anyways. Better safe than emergency room.
The problem is that the rods I am cutting need to be positioned very precisely such that they encounter the spinning Dremel blade, but do not encounter the body of the Dremel
So, TIL that when you clamp a Dremel to a work surface that works surface turns into a speaker when you turn on the Dremel. It is far too loud for me to be doing it in the basement while wifey is attempting to accomplish work that requires focus.
MakerTube is a Peertube video instance for #makers, #musicians, #artists and #diy content #creators. If you thought of trying out a video platform besides big corp now is the time!
Does anyone here have experience with #dassault#3DExperience#Solidworks for #Makers? It looks affordable - I was wondering how close it was the “regular” solid works software.
I’d like to have really robust 3D part design software, and all kinds of industries use SolidWorks - if it operates the same way. (Like how the old Photoshop Elements contained 90% of Photoshop for a fraction of the price. If you could use Elements you could use regular Photoshop.)