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Retro-Mod Speakers Made from Ikea Salad Bowls
Sit on This, Geeks: Giant 555 Timer
Soldering Savant Makes Insane 1,400-LED Tower
Pro Tip: You Can 3D Print Parts from McMaster-Carr
Can a $600 3D Printer Beat a $20,000 Machine?
Why Katy Perry's Lawyers Just Jumped The Shark
Blending Paint with Crochet in Unorthodox Ways
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Retro-Mod Speakers Made from Ikea Salad Bowls

If you’ve ever lusted after those iconic B&W Nautilus speakers (which cost a staggering $60,000), you might be interested in this Ikea hacker’s homage to audio gear that no one can actually afford. Using Ikea salad bowls, Damir Paco of Denmark created these unique speakers. To build them, he used […]

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Sit on This, Geeks: Giant 555 Timer

The 555-timer integrated circuit is one of the most famous and popular chips ever invented. Created in 1971, it’s got a near cult following with books, blogs, newsletters, and devoted fans even today. That’s why Imgur user “surfacetension” built this amazing stool in the form of a giant 555 chip! […]

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Soldering Savant Makes Insane 1,400-LED Tower

This LED tower is an amazing work of soldering by Gislain Benoit containing 1,415 LEDs and 2,153 components in total. I admire his ability to count that many components, but it makes sense that the type of person who has the patience to complete this sort of contraption would be that meticulous. According […]

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Pro Tip: You Can 3D Print Parts from McMaster-Carr

I don’t know about you but sometimes it feels like I can plan and measure all I want and then I order the parts I think I need and they’re not exactly right. This can be nerve-wracking, annoying, and expensive when you’re spec’ing high-priced parts. Make: pal Meredith Scheff-King discovered […]

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Can a $600 3D Printer Beat a $20,000 Machine?

The internet is such an incredible and beautiful place: Two strangers with amazing toys came together to give us a showdown that is sure to amuse and inform. In one corner, we have Scott Hanselman, armed with a $600 Printrbot simple metal he got two weeks ago. In the other corner, we […]

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Why Katy Perry's Lawyers Just Jumped The Shark

Yesterday news broke that Katy Perry* (among other things, the intended star of the 2015 Super Bowl Halftime Show) demanded that the 3D printing website Shapeways stop selling a model of Left Shark (perhaps the actual star of the Super Bowl Halftime Show). The letter to Shapeways came on fancy […]