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High Volume Low Pressure Sprayer
HVLP means High Volume Low Pressure. It’s a more efficient way of spraying. More media (paint) gets deposited than the old style sprayers. The difference is the air. It’s not run with a high pressure...
View ArticleBlackwing 602 Pencil
I use pencils for stories, poems, jottings, sketching, but mostly for musical notation. Finding a great pencil has been surprisingly difficult. Mechanical pencils have their place, but the leads are...
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Becky Stern, Content Creator at Instructables
Becky is a Content Creator at Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she’s...
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Sharpie Twin-Tip
Sharpie markers are well-known for being indelible, particularly on plastic, glass and metal surfaces. Folks in labs, movie sets, and hospitals who need to mark things permanently use Sharpies. If the...
View ArticleRechargeable Lead Acid Battery
In this Cool Tools video review I’m going to show you why it’s handy to have a 12v, SLA battery around. The first time I encountered a sealed lead acid battery was in a Power Wheels kids ride-on car....
View ArticleMother American Night/CloudMounter/DonorsChoose
Barlow’s stories When I took LSD, I got it from John Perry Barlow. Barlow was a famous internet pioneer and a veteran hippy. Barlow was also a semi-politician, pundit, writer, and a most remarkable...
View Article3M SandBlaster Ultra Flexible Sanding Sheets
It’s time for another Cool Tools review. This time we’re looking at this Ultra-Flexible sandpaper by 3M. I got four sheets of this for around $7 on Amazon, which is kinda pricey for sandpaper but I’ll...
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Fiskars Take-Apart Shears
I don’t consider myself a great cook, but I’ve found that for a multitude of kitchen activities, scissors are important. Whether for cutting cooking twine, small bones or a chicken breastbone, they can...
View Article5 Resistor Kits compared
In this video I’m going to show you 5 different resistor kits for electronic projects. I found all of these on Amazon. Whether you’re just getting started with electronics or you’re an old pro, a well...
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Sierra Stove
There I was, in driving rain, cooking breakfast under a tree over an intense, portable fire. Fresh coffee and scrambled eggs. It was a Sierra Stove I got for $52. It’s a mini-forge, forcing air into a...
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Lexel Caulk
They call this stuff caulk, but I use it as a general purpose glue. It pretty much sticks anything to anything. It may not hold as strongly as epoxy, but for 90% of my attachment jobs it does the...
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Dan Ruderman, Physicist and technologist
Our guest this week is Dan Ruderman. Dan is a physicist and technologist. He is faculty at the Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC, where he applies machine learning to individualized...
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Making Comics
Magnificent! A work of genius. The best how-to manual ever published. I could keep piling on the superlatives because this book is simply a masterpiece. At one level, it is a comic book about how to...
View ArticleWhat3Words/Neighbors/Xhalr
Precise memorable addresses What3Words divides the world into 3 x 3-meter squares and gives each square a unique, unalterable sequences of three random words. For instance the location of my writing...
View ArticleL3 Liberates Alexa [Maker Update #84]
This week on Maker Update, an Alexa-powered L3 droid, a pedal-powered art machine, a robot snake, robot bread, an FPV rover, last call for cocktail robots, and creative clamping techniques. This...
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Spray Adhesive
What magnificent stuff. Glues together thin layers of paper products such as cardboard, photographs, foam core, even light fabrics, firmly and evenly. Most of the time it’s superior to rubber cement,...
View ArticleWater Bottle SplashGuard
I’ve had a wide-mouth Nalgene bottle for over a decade now, and I still can’t walk while drinking from it without getting water up my nose. A few years ago, a friend showed me that his bottle had a...
View ArticlePowerPort Solar Lite
In this video I’m going to show you a portable solar charger made by Anker called the PowerPort Solar Lite. I picked this up for around $52 on Amazon. At the moment it’s The Wirecutter’s Pick for Best...
View ArticlePython No Spill Clean and Fill Aquarium Maintenance System
I’ve got a couple goldfish that have grown from feeder fish into 10-inch monstrosities. They currently live in a 55-gallon hex tank. Something that you don’t learn about goldfish when you win them at...
View ArticleNexx WiFi Garage Door Opener
I recently purchased and installed this WiFi garage door controller ($100). It was easy to install and it works great! In addition to WiFi control it comes with a magnetic door sensor which informs the...
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