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How To Make Plastic Hex Nuts – YouTube

For some unknown reason, this guy decided to make some plastic nuts…

A neat technique – perhaps not for a normal dimension nut, but something unusual?

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K84J0IdtJhM

“Men in Sheds” – The Bookbinder

A wonderful insight into high end bookbinding, a craftsman that demands around £1000 for the book shown in this video.

Source: https://youtu.be/f96v8LRyblw

DIY Arduino or “The DIY-Duino”

Build an Arduino from components.

Rolling your own is a great way to see what an Arduino compatible board is really all about.

This Instructable is a little more back to basics – including etching and drilling your own PCB…

Source: DIY Arduino or “The DIY-Duino”

Arduino Based Bubble Blowing Robot Kit

The BubbleBot is a complete kit for building a robot that, well, creates quite large (mini-gigantic, some would say) soap bubbles!

Source: BubbleBot Kit by forrealteam on Etsy

LOFI Robot EDUBOX Mini Robotics Construction Kit

LOFI Robot EDUBOX is an educational robot construction kit designed to help youg makers and inventors learn basics of mechanics, electronics and

Source: LOFI Robot EDUBOX mini robotics construction kit by LOFIrobot

meArm Mini Industrial Robotic Factory Arm Kit

Up for sale is an awesome little open source robotic arm! Just add an Arduino or other controller and you have a fully functioning mini factory

Source: meArm Mini Industrial Robotic Factory Arm Deluxe by SpierceTech

DIY Red LED Watch Kit – Arduino Compatible from TIMESQUARE 

  Need a geeky Red LED watch that you can hack to display whatever you wish?

This is it, a nice large LED matrix, an Arduino compatible microcontroller for you to upload whatever code you wish onto.

Build it in a couple of hours, components, PCB, and silicon case stratp all included.

Source: TIMESQUARE DIY Watch Kit – Red Display Matrix from Adafruit

Arduino + Neopixels / WS2812B LEDs Music to Light Dancing

Robert Robert says:

This is actually quite easy to make so long as you can get hold of acrylic / perspex blocks reasonably cheap. Parts: 1. Arduino Uno R3. 2. 4 x 12 pixel WS2812B addressable LED strips from ebay in parallel attached via 200 ohm resistor to pin 6 to limit current. 3. Adafruit max 9814 autogain mic attached to pin A0

Raspberry Pi + Camera Suction Cup Window Mount

markfickett says…

A suction-cup / window mount for a Raspberry Pi and its camera. I used small suction cups from my local hardware story, removing the wire hook they came with so I could slide them into the printed frame instead.

Source: Raspberry Pi + Camera Suction Cup Window Mount by markfickett – Thingiverse

BBC micro:bit Line Following Robot Buggy From Kitronik

https://twitter.com/simoncrabbuk/status/740212967422169088

Heated Ice Cream Scoop

justinmossa shares his dodgy dessert doobrey:

I love ice cream and when I used a hot knife to cut foam for one of my sets for my high school’s stage crew I thought “hey what if I made a heated ice cream scoop” so I did. I researched how a hot knife worked and what would be a good conductive heating material that could be powered by a battery and all be hand held. I also didn’t want it to be a…

DIY Voltmeter With Arduino Uno And Nokia 5110 LCD

Using the Nokia 5110 screen with an Arduino to make a voltmeter is a thing of awesome.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ1vHbwdKJQ

Emergency Fall Notifier Cum Panic Button Arduino ATmega328

Source: Emergency Fall Notifier Cum Panic Button

Easy OLED Arduino Display

If you’ve ever worked with Arduino, you’ve probably wanted it to display sensor readings. While using the old classic Nokia 5110 LCD, you may have noticed that connecting all those wires is messy and takes up too many pins. Of course, there’s a better way. The OLED way.In the next step I will provide a list of what you’ll need to get things working. On a side note, if you haven’t worked with a…