Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.
Visitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.
There are over 2,500 Repair Cafés worldwide. Visit one in your area or start one yourself!
SVG image file of three different sets of lockpicks (slim shank, medium tapered shank, and tapered shank). Probably for using to make your own.
Repo forked here: https://github.com/virtadpt/designs
Downloadable templates for making lockpicks (conventional as well as specialized). Links to templates for other kinds of lock tools.
The original "collection of pick templates" threads on lockpicking101.com are littered with dead links and annoying photobucket .webps that are blurred unless you have an account. HUGE credit goes to the users of LP101. I'm favoring the PDF conversions so you can be sure that they print 1:1. While I was at it, I went ahead and collected every pick template image and PDF that I could find anywhere on the internet. If you want the other 350 MB of blurry, skewed photos of picks next to rulers, then just contact me.
A wiki for the transgender community about DIY HRT.
KBD.news is a blog and weekly newsletter on DIY mechanical keyboards. A hand-picked selection of features from a keyboard enthusiast's perspective (more + contact).
RSS: https://kbd.news/rss2.php
Weekly RSS: https://kbd.news/rss.php
This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.
The software for this search engine is all custom-built, and all crawling and indexing is done in-house.
This search engine isn't particularly well equipped to answering queries posed like questions, instead try to imagine some text that might appear in the website you are looking for, and search for that.
Where this search engine really shines is finding small, old and obscure websites about some given topic.
REST API: https://memex.marginalia.nu/projects/edge/api.gmi
E-mail the admins for an API key.
A Playstation 1 Modchip written in Python. Contribute to ColdHeat/PsNeePy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Low-Tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices. The entire site runs off of a miniature solar powered system to prove that it can be done. It can also be downloaded to store and read offline. Translated into multiple world languages.
RSS feeds: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/feeds
We are building the Global Village Construction Set. This is a high-performance, modular, do-it-yourself, low-cost platform - that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes - to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.
Catalog page for a simplex repeater unit that you plug a radio into.
First page of an explanation of building your own cloud infrastructure.
A database of what kind of adhesives should be used to glue something to something else.
How to construct your own brick oven from scratch. Granted, you'll have to put it in the back yard and it looks like a bunker. Heavily illustrated.
A CC-licensed cheatsheet for building with and programming the Arduino.
How to build your own non-destructive book scanner to archive texts. Total cost: less than $300us. It's pretty speedy, too - on the order of 1200 pages per hour.
The DIYLILCNC is a fully functional, open source 3-axis CNC that you can build with basic tools and parts that can be locally sourced. The idea is that you develop a 3D design in a CAD application, put feedstock into the CNC, and print your design to it, and it cuts and grinds away everything but what your design is supposed to be. Total cost of construction is about $700us. You can download the plans and DXF template files from the website for free (they have a CC-BY-SA license).
OpenPCR is a fully functional yet affordable ($599us) PCR (polymerase chain reaction) device, used for replicating DNA for the purposes of sequencing or barcoding (species determination). The whole kit - from the software to the hardware itself - is open source, so you can download the code, CAD, and Eagle files and build your own if you don't want to buy a kit.
A blog post at Green Terra Firma detailing a number of DIY vertical wind turbine designs.