I picked up a cheap chinese leather patcher -- a Singer 29k clone -- for some leather work because my little entry-level sewing machine is not sufficient for leather. DIY is an illness, so I decided ...

We disassemble the "hoverboard" hub motor, fabricate an adapter and mount a small v-belt pulley. As usual, most things do not ...

The BX63 is focused by motorizing the nosepiece in the Z-axis (possible due to the infinity-corrected optics) and fixing the stage to the rest of the frame at two additional points, making it ...

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys travel through the greatest hacks the week had on offer. Charge up your ice skates (literally) by adding spiked electric motors to push you across ...

The only trouble with motorizing these hand grinders or even driving them with a drill is that many of them have a pentagonal shaft. But that problem was no match for [George] and his file.