What does your dream toolbox look like? Do you sometimes wonder about all the options available? Matco Tools has a new Toolbox Configurator on the front page of its Web site to help you visualize. Users start by selecting the model series and then are walked through the selection of unique drawer configurations, distinctive color and trim combinations, add-ons for additional storage space and accessories and upgrade possibilities. It's so easy my five-year-old niece can do it.
Tagi: matco tools, model series, storage space, possibilities
Weâ??ve all heard the benefits of solar power: reduced energy bills (some states and provinces even allow you to generate power and sell it back to the grid or offer grants to homeowners), less demand on already stressed city power grids, itâ??s a form of renewable energy. Solar power seems so, well, perfectâ??if only I [...]
Tagi: energy bills, solar power, renewable energy, estimates, grants, city power
Pumpkins outfitted with LEDs are certainly all well and good, but the ever-versatile Arduino platform has now upped the Jack O' Lantern modding possibilities considerably, and MAKE's Marc de Vinck looks to have made a decent stab at things with this immodestly dubbed "scariest pumpkin ever." To help it snag that title, de Vinck did away with the usual spooky halloween sound effects and instead opted for a car horn, which lets out a blast whenever someone presses the impossible to resist red button. That, obviously, presents a number of problems, and MAKE warns not to leave the pumpkin unattended, or let someone press their ear up against it. Or, if you're not quite ready to tackle the project yourself, you can simply get a taste of it at a slightly more tolerable level by checking out the video after the break.
Pumpkins outfitted with LEDs are certainly all well and good, but the ever-versatile Arduino platform has now upped the Jack O' Lantern modding possibilities considerably, and MAKE's Marc de Vinck looks to have made a decent stab at things with this immodestly dubbed "scariest pumpkin ever." To help it snag that title, de Vinck did away with the usual spooky halloween sound effects and instead opted for a car horn, which lets out a blast whenever someone presses the impossible to resist red button. That, obviously, presents a number of problems, and MAKE warns not to leave the pumpkin unattended, or let someone press their ear up against it. Or, if you're not quite ready to tackle the project yourself, you can simply get a taste of it at a slightly more tolerable level by checking out the video after the break.
What does your dream toolbox look like? Do you sometimes wonder about all the options available? Matco Tools has a new Toolbox Configurator on the front page of its Web site to help you visualize. Users start by selecting the model series and then are walked through the selection of unique drawer configurations, distinctive color and trim combinations, add-ons for additional storage space and accessories and upgrade possibilities. It's so easy my five-year-old niece can do it.
