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Thanks. I hope everyone at ibles HQ is hanging in there to be around as long. I joke around with the Autodeskibles thing but I do really worry about you people.

1. Any TV stations in your area still broadcasting analog signals? 2. Is your VCR capable of receiving digital TV signal or do you have a converter box?

I guess if those burls were truffles you would not be back writing up an another ible. Drill a few more holes for the sweet potato ocarina of death. It looks like it could be a gearshift knob out of a Rolls Royce. Very nice.

The English is strange that way...wait, not the ones across the pond, the language.

Thanks, it's really all experimentation and just trying out to see what looks good. It's fun to discover what you can do with neopixels.

*maniacal...

Cheese...to go with the whine when you lose a hand.

We have a couple of "high-end" artist supply stores around NYC so I was able to get it there. They might do mail order or find that finer-arts store by you. I had also thought maybe using photography/stage light filter gel materials but they were costly. There is also https://www.canalplastic.com/ and another store down the block that stocks thin plastic sheets good for light diffusion and stuff. The old timey hardware stores around here stock various patterns of sheet plastic to use from covering couches, tablecloths or carpet runners. The shelf liner rolls from IKEA have possibilities if you need a super tough flexible plastic.

http://www.dickblick.com/categories/acetate/If you are doing serious work, I would use that instead of gift basket wrap stuff.

Ah, and make sure that watch is waterproof and floats. Thanks.

Nice project. For a landlubber like me, how do you read that clock? I am guessing the blue shows what time the high tide will occur and 6 hours later on the opposite red pointer will indicate the expected low tide. You still have to look at your watch to figure out how much time you have to get the boat launched? Thanks.

Where was this when the eclipse happened?Do use protection to be on the safe side with any rare encounter.

you = Ibler - active participating Instructables community member creating, building, and documenting tech and non-tech maker projects which have garnered over 1 million views.me = Ibler - general lurker and compulsive trouble maker. Something along those lines. Good luck.

Fantastic! Post a pic, better yet, make an instructable out of the build for the contests.

Cool build. I would do one up in Barbie pink and give it to my daughter as a first car...at least teach her how to drive in one...

Thanks. A lot to digest but worth going over and over again.

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That probably wouldn't fly at the posher schools. One parent I know with a kid doing environmental studies equipped her with a couple cans of bear spray, the mini-fire extinguisher sized ones...

I think there is a special version of Modpodge that you use for paper. It prevents the paper from swelling up unevenly and forming bubbles when it soaks up the waterbased Modpodge. Maybe priming the plywood mounting surface and letting that dry first would help reduce the wet component when adhering.

I recall watching a documentary on German apprenticeships. It may have been on the educational or vocational training system that exists there. They highlighted someone working in a machine shop and said they give you a bar of metal and spend days and days getting it to perfect size or shape. I think it was to reinforce the idea of precision and fine craftsmanship found in German engineering. Anyway, when I had wood shop in high school, we were graded on how perfect you can plane a chamfer or beveled edge along a big piece of wood while trying not to whittle down the dimensions of the board. And that's how you get to Carnegie Hall.

From the Jan 2017 Build a Tool contesthttps://www.instructables.com/contest/bat2017/emachineshopGood luck.

Thanks. You can only hope for the best for your kids and grateful it turns out that way.

I'm still intrigued by what the second tool is. Not too many things have a cross profile to fit through that keyhole and if the slider is some kind of lock for another piece of the tool. Of course, all unidentified vintage tools asked here end up being some kind of fly-fishing fly tying rig of some sort. Good luck.

*sent from my iphone, not.

The tube thing may be a rifle oiler.https://www.fieldserviceantiquearms.co.uk/british-ww2-no4-enfield-rifle-brass-oiler-1327-p.asp

You're right, didn't look how they closed, maybe hog ring pliers?

Nippers of end-cut pliers. I use them for grabbing headless nails stuck in wood/cement. Flush cutters for thick hard wire.

Just glue on several more layers of cardboard so you have a thick lamination. If you have a 3D shape with hollow insides, just glue in lots of cardboard partitions to act as braces and support for the outside "box" or shell. You can coat all over with glue to finish it off. If you really want to do the work, you can paper mache your base letter form and give it a few days to harden up when it completely dries. Good luck.

The AUX IN jack is used to plug in the audio cable from something like an mp3 player or some other sound source so you can play your instrument along with the music. It is a smaller 1/8th inch audio jack. No sound comes out of it.The bigger headphones jack is used for headphones with 1/4 inch standard stereo/mono plug which is the same as your guitar cable. Most good headphones will have the 1/4 inch plug and you use an adapter to get it to fit into the smaller 1/8th inch audio jack which fits most earbuds and such like you find on the computer.Your amp headphone jack is probably working. You are not connecting correctly to it. Good luck.

Necessity is the mother of invention, hence Specialized tools.

You can start here http://hackaday.com/2013/01/22/gsm-to-landline-box...Good luck.

Look up contact microphones. If you want to make a superspy ear, you are going to need to amplify the signal from the piezo and consider the physics of the sound you are working with. Good luck.

You could candy coat the tab. So what are we doing here, sea bass or lake trout contraption?

Dunno if that's what the contest organizers had in mind https://www.instructables.com/contest/unusualuses2017/ but you may have a wein...wait, winner there.

also good for heartburn, upset stomach and indigestion...

It's great to be able to use up any materials you have on hand to complete the project but look into the specification standards on what makes a "safety gate" safe. I think the same rules apply when building fences or stair railings, tots will get caught up in the spaces between so the gaps should be smaller than a soda can or toilet paper tube.

Alka seltzer tab. Good luck.

Ff = μNwhere: Ff is the resistive force of frictionμ is the coefficient of friction for the two surfaces (Greek letter "mu")N is the normal or perpendicular force pushing the two objects togetherμN is μ times NFf and N are measured in units of force, which are pounds or newtons+ c for whatever else is in the way. Good luck.

The energy is robbed by the bumpy surface it hits between each block. That's why the guide tube or channel needs to be continuous and smooth all the way through.

Ukes usually don't use steel strings so the pickups are piezo or acoustic pickup type.

They can but you have to add on a little bit of circuitry to amplify or trim out the electronic signal from a piezo element to be suitable for feeding into an arduino or microcontroller. If you are thinking any kind of drum project, look up "knock sensor arduino" to give you the basics. A piezo buzzer can be used as sort of a reverse microphone.

ah, missed the image note - so does that tip work?

Great build but without getting into all the semantics, it sounds like an electric guitar and not ukulele-like. Why is the spray paint can in a tub of water?

For prototyping, use this as the base https://www.adafruit.com/product/2133 - you can make it a custom 11 note ocarina. Music synthesis to get good or more realistic sounds is tough to do with a basic arduino. It lacks the processing power and you usually only end up with beep like tones. Raspberry pi is probably more suited for sample playback vs arduino and a whole bunch of add on shields. The audio FX board is monophonic - press one note, get one sound. You would probably move on to more complicated hardware for polyphonic - more than one note at a time to sound chords. Good luck.

but you can still have your cake and decorate it too? What about the sewing contest?

Unless you are some kind of electrical engineer, you really wouldn't attempt to start designing circuit boards off the bat and program bare chips. The Atmel atmega 328 chips are the basis of the arduino ecosystem. Arduino engineered the fun and ease into programming and using boards/accessory peripherals that have those microcontrollers. When you need more processing power or capability you move on to those boards containing the ATSAMD21 or Cortex M0 or full blown microcontroller chips for something like raspberry pi.All of Adafruit's boards and similar are open-source so you can start from those designs as a basis for a new one.

Look into the Adafruit Feather line of arduino boards. It has the add on display that should be suitable. https://www.adafruit.com/product/2900?gclid=CP7eqO... You can add other sensors/boards/wifi-bluetooth etc later on if your project needs it.For your application, it is capable of being a HID device - meaning it can be used as a keyboard - with limited board pinouts for each switch, easiest thing to do is hack a usb keyboard and use those built-in key switches/hardware as your set of 20 to 101+ switch inputs. There are a lot of tutorials and instructables already done on that. Good luck.

My comment was more in jest considering how products are labelled or product names taking on a new meaning through the years. Here in NYC we have the more or less potent Canada Dry Ginger "ale" to the authentic "hard" brewed in Jamaica beers.

There is no warning that this is the non-alcoholic version.

Practice making something like thishttps://www.adafruit.com/product/1022

No one graduates from being a kid. Have fun and make one!

The double sided carpet seaming tape has industrial strength adhesive on it and is quite strong. Maybe you should use those outdoor mounting tapes which come in smaller rolls. Good luck.

Get a longer saddle clamp or a long piece of pipe section that fits on the tube to splice the joint. That will keep the joint from flexing. The EMT fitting is meant to just connect two pieces.

They've also got the double sided sticky tape kind that doesn't require an iron to melt the hot glue lines before using. Also fun if you want to set up a big sheet of human fly-paper to run through for parties.

I dunno, mention it and the chef will cut the cheese extra thick when you order the poutine.

The trick is to have a primer coat to act as the barrier for your solvent paints. You can get a spray paint primer made for plastics(another expensive can of paint) but you can just coat your plastic tubing with craft glue. Smear on several thin coats of glue and let them dry, cracks and shrinkage will be covered by the next coat. First coat will be sparse. Do the glue after you have formed your coil. The dried glue coating is somewhat flexible but can't stretch too much. Instead of using glue you can give it a few primer coats of acrylic craft/latex paint or coat with some acrylic/latex caulking. You can then use your spray paint over the dried primer coating. Good luck.

Look at the Adafruit neopixel uberguide tutorial to get things connected. https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-neopixel-uberg...This setup is only a small strip that sits behind the name badge and connected to the arduino on its own pin. A longer strip that runs from the base into the bottle is connected on a separate arduino pin. Arduino.cc has tutorials on how to wire up a simple switch to one of the data pins. You can have a resistor that you wire in or use the internal pullup setting to work. Good luck.

My original giant Magic 8-ball used a glass jar of liquid and a floating answer piece to replicate the mechanism. This one is all dry and only uses a plastic magnifying glass or lens to simulate the look of peering into the bottom of a glass or plastic chamber. Instead of shaking the floating piece in a liquid jar to get a random answer, you spin this wheel of fortune and look inside for the answer.

Nice! Those coin cells aren't really designed for high discharge like for a motor, even tiny ones(not high rated in milliamps/capacity). I did have a multi-pack of coin cells cheap off the auction site so I think I ran through a few since they didn't last too long. If you could squeeze in some alkaline AAAs or a small lipo battery even better. It's a great project to tinker and see what/why it works. Thanks for sharing!

That looks delicious! Do you find after cooking that you end up with a more "jerky" like product? I guess the fatter pork belly cooks up like bacon that I expect but I do get annoyed that a pound of bacon renders out to a few shards of crispy meat.