Arquivos de Tag: DIY

Penguin DIY Built Invisible Earphones That Vanish Inside a Custom Ear Cast

Penguin DIY started with a pair of ordinary true wireless earbuds and finished with two objects that barely read as audio gear. One half is a clear resin plug cast from a mold of his own ear, meant to sit fully inside the canal. The other half is the tip of a pen. Both still […]

DIY Self Driving 1/48 Scale Narrow Gauge Battery Locomotive Learns to Shuttle on Its Own

Diorama111, a DIY maker from Japan, has spent many hours squeezing motors, lights, and controllers into models that no larger than a matchbox. His latest project is a 1/48 model narrow-gauge battery locomotive on 9 mm track that has its own power, lighting, and enough onboard electronics to perform a short shuttle without the need […]

Craftsman Chris Transforms a Dumpster Window Air Conditioner Into a DIY Geothermal Heat Pump

Two thousand feet of half-inch PEX already slept six to eight feet under Craftsman Chris’s yard when his first homemade cooling plan came up short. Four parallel five-hundred-foot slinky loops and a Taco 009 pump pushed water through a heat exchanger in the furnace plenum, yet the dirt had baked in the sun after excavation […]