Animatronic Tentacles with Arduino
***Disclaimer***This instructable is documentation for a work in progress. Although the project is not yet complete, it has reached a place where I believe it can begin to be beneficial to other...
View ArticleHow to Make a Coaxial Air Cannon
This video shows how I make a compact 2" bore air cannon with a coaxial piston valve. To understand how these valves work examine the third animation in the following link:...
View Articleair horn office chair prank
The office is a great place to prank your coworkers. Interrupt the white noise of typing keyboards and the hum of the photocopier with a blaring klaxon hidden under someone's office chair. This is the...
View ArticleHow to make an affordable 'Vein Finder', for use during venipuncture
One of the hardest parts of taking blood can be finding a suitable vein. Some patients are 'difficult sticks'; their veins are either very small, and/or deep, preventing health professionals from...
View ArticlePysanky - Ukrainian Egg Dying
Pysanky is a traditional craft in Ukraine and Poland. The method is similar to batik - patterns are drawn on the egg with wax, which then protects the covered areas from the dye that is applied. By...
View ArticleHow to build a Multi-Touch surface
Multi-touch gestures are the latest and greatest way to interact with your computer. However, commercial systems are not widely available and are expensive. Fortunately, you can do it yourself better...
View ArticleThe Complete Guide to RC Electronics
Hello, my friends. I have often found hobby RC electronics to be of interest in my projects due to their apparent simplicity and ease of use. However, it took me a while to figure out how to put...
View ArticleGlass nixie
A Nixie tube is an electronic device for displaying numerals or other information using glow discharge. But they need about 200 volts to glow and it makes them dangerous and difficult to drive, at...
View ArticleArduino Combination Door Lock: Lockduino
Ready to put a combination lock on your door to keep out intruders? You've come to the right place! In this i'ble I will show you step by step how to make a combination lock for your door! Watch this...
View ArticleArduino RFID Lock
The Arduino RFID lock How does it work? The Arduino RFID lock is a lock that can be opened easily, but is secure. The lock works with a server database that can register card codes. On the door there...
View ArticleHow-To: Make an RGB combination door lock
Putting a custom designed electronic lock on your space seems like a geek right of passage. For our latest workspace, we decided to skip the boring numbered keypad and build a custom RGB backlit keypad...
View Article3D Printed Sound Bites
After I posted my 3D printed record project, I received an interesting comment from Instructables author rimar2000. He described an idea he's had for a while about a strip of material that has audio...
View ArticleIce Cream Sandwich Recipe
Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches? Yes, please! Make your own flavor combinations with this easy Ice Cream Sandwich recipe! I like ice cream sandwiches any time of the year, but I find the basic...
View ArticleLaser Cut Acrylic Rose with Etched Base
Hello everyone, I made an acrylic rose display piece for a loved one. I was lucky enough to have access to an Epilog laser cutter at the time. If I were to win an Epilog Zing 16 Laser, I would...
View ArticlePortal Test Chamber Information Sign
I wrote this up as a post on my blog Apathetic Thursday a few years ago, always meaning to get around to making a tutorial for instructables, but never got around to it. Until now. This is a 2ft by...
View Article3D Printed Speaker Enclosures (With Lights!)
This project was a demonstration of the potential of 3D printers to create high-fidelity, finished products. We wanted to create something that could only be created by means of additive manufacturing....
View ArticleTardis Bookshelf with Sound and Lights
This is an instructable of how to make an 3/4 scale, 1/2 depth Tardis Bookshelf. It is modeled after the 10th Doctors Tardis from the British BBC America and BBC show "Doctor Who". It was a graduation...
View ArticleMake Liquid Light Table under 10 minutes! Interactive! Simple! Cheap! (video...
Want to have table that glows under glass, cups, anything? Ultra easy tutorial...so easy kids can do it. But they shouldn´t. Also remember that this is something like a prototype. I´ll tell you what i...
View ArticleMini invisible MIDI Harp
English: This is a simple and easy to make MIDI harp, it runs on an Arduino UNO and uses infrared sensors as strings. It communicates with every recording software that has MIDI. Its really fun to play...
View Article100 LED 10 band Audio Spectrum atmega32 MSGEQ7 with peak hold and fall down
MSGEQ7 and atmega32 based Audio Spectrum. 10 level height and 10 band width. peak hold and fall down display styleBy: Jestin_CubetechContinue Reading »
View ArticleElectric Vehicle - A simple lightweight EV platform
I've been looking forward to the arrival of electric car technology. Not just for the smooth quiet power, wide torque range, cheap running costs and minimal maintenance, but to design and build cars...
View Article3D Print Your Trek, in color!
Do you take a GPS device when you go hiking, biking or other outdoor activity? This Instructable will show you how to create a 3D printout of your adventure, in color, with accurate elevation data....
View ArticleDisplay your Instructables on a Wordpress or PHP based page
Ever want to have a listing of your Instrucatbles on a webpage like what is displayed on your profile? I tried several WordPress plugins but came up with nothing so I wrote/came up with a solution. In...
View ArticleWrist-Mounted Flamethrower Mk. 2: Dual-Stage Liquid Fuel
Truth be told, I've always wanted to shoot fire out of my hands. Because who wouldn't? This is the second wrist-mounted flamethrower I've made to help come one step closer to that dream. If you're...
View ArticleInstructables Universe in Three.js
What's Instructables? When you come to visit us at Instructables, you'll see a giant touchscreen that's tasked with aiding the explanation. On this touchscreen are about 20,000 points of light, each...
View ArticleMaking a great LED triangle
Triangles are cheap these days. Your mobile phone can draw ten million of them in a second, and they'll be quite alright. I wanted to build something different. A triangle capable of being very dim or...
View ArticleLED Nametag
As a part of the Helle Koepfe-workshop for kids we designed some nametags, such that each kid could make their own led nametag at their short visit of the FabLab Aachen. Therefore ist shouldn't be too...
View ArticleGoPro Clamp Mount
Tripods are limited in functionality and they get in the way in a crowded shop. Enter the GoPro Clamp Mount! I designed this mount to fit on a standard one-handed bar clamp with 4 axes of...
View ArticleStatueyes
Statues provide inspiration, remembrance, and a link to period of history. The only problem with statues is that they can't be enjoyed outside of daylight hours. However, adding red LED's in the eyes...
View ArticleKnife Block
This quite unusual but practical knife block is a relatively fast and simple project for your CNC machine...There is some manual work involved (edge rounding, glueing and sanding) but with the right...
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