Category Archives: Cheap

Nice battery operated solder fume fan

Involves alot of 3D printed parts, overall a nice build if you have that brand of power tools to use for a battery. My 2 cents, I would build it a bit simplier since it would be a 1 of … Continue reading

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Interesting wheel design to convert to something to use for climbing. https://hackaday.com/2022/12/14/omniwhegs-are-awesome-times-two/

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How to boot an RPi from SSD

OK so one of the more annoying aspects of RPi’s is no EMMC. And SDcards are…well not the best for reliability. So this write-up covers how to take the newer RPi’s and have them boot from an SSD drive. https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-boot-raspberry-pi-ssd-permanent-storage/

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Interesting Drill guide

Its more like a portable drill press. Nice build, not so sure I would do it over some of the ones you can buy for $50, given the time to make this. Now if the parts where all pre-cut for … Continue reading

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Nice drag cutter for a CNC

And a pretty cheap build too. https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Drag-Knife-Cutter/

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Cheap clamp lamp

the lamp parts are easy to come by, the clamps I think you can get for a few bucks. Could make for nice simple shop lights. Maybe add a magnet from an old harddrive to the bottom of the clamp … Continue reading

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Another take on the RPi scope, with wifi

Nice extension to the project https://www.instructables.com/PiMSO-A-Raspberry-Pi-based-Wi-Fi-Oscilloscope/

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Making a RPi scope

Not a hard bump ld to do…well hard to find a raspberry pi to use…I may have to think about this for my own builds https://www.instructables.com/PiScope-Raspberry-Pi-based-Oscilloscope/

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Turning a bottle into filament

This was one of the earlier (last year) designs for turning a bottle into filament. Just got around to reading it now. https://hackaday.com/2022/04/28/recycling-plastic-into-filament/

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The poor mans self balancing robot

Neat build, could be something nice to do with kids. https://www.instructables.com/Wheeled-Self-Balancing-Robot-With-Arduino-Uno-L293/

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