A gas fireplace thermocouple is a safety device that measures heat, and recognizes if a pilot light has gone out, shutting down the fuel supply (such as gas or propane).
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Gas Fireplace Thermocouple Replacement Tips
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How to Test a Gas Water Heater Thermocouple
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The water heater thermocouple is a device that monitors temperatures in the water heater to determine whether it needs to heat up or turn off the heat.
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How to Repair Wooden Pegboard Baskets
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Wooden pegboard baskets are essential to any organized garage.
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How to Make a Kids Folding Wood Chair
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A folding wood chair is ideal for kids, but can also become an adult favorite too.
Read more »Corrugated Roofing: Plastic vs Metal
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The differences between plastic and metal corrugated roofing range from slightly to extremely different.
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How to Select your Dryer Vent Piping
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Choosing the correct type of dryer vent piping is more important than it may seem.
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Hanging Attic Storage - Locating Support Beams
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Hanging storage can be an effective way to make the most your attic storage capacity.
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Soup can coffee roaster
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How awesome is this drill powered drum roaster? Very awesome.
I never tire of seeing new takes on building your own sample roaster. Keeping the beans moving is the key to an even roast. Tim Eggers decided to use a drill to turn his drum, made from a soup can. He cut and folded vanes into the drum to aid the tumbling. A second soup can drum focuses the heat from his stove-top burner. Genius idea, and look at those lovely beans.
Read more »Garden Tools - 2 Electronic Soil Tester Facts
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Electric soil testers are the perfect garden tools when you wish to test the ph of your soil.
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Circuit bent toy frog
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Mischka modified this motion-activated greeting toy, making it into a simple sample and loop frog noise machine. There don't seem to an explanation of how it was done, but it looks like a fun project!
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This animation, done by NYC's Tronic Studio, for AXA, a French insurance company, is faux stop-motion, faux papercraft, all 3D Studio Max.
Read more »Ball-chain gears on Thingiverse
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Vik from the RepRap blog created these printable ball-chain gears, and uploaded STLs and SCADs to Thingiverse.
Read more »DIY Movie Making article roundup
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Beware the Ides of March! I was itching to say that. Ahem. Here is a collection of MAKE magazine articles related to DIY movie making. Note that most back issues of MAKE are available for purchase in the Maker Shed. Don't miss any future articles ... subscribe!
Read more »LED lighting PCB board etching
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MAKE Flickr pool member Joel Miller (jmillerid) is planning some LED lighting for his house and has been evaluating Luxeon Rebel LEDs. He etched these boards to experiment with different colors, their heat values, etc.
Read more »Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire: Request for Makers
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We're excited to announce that the 2010 Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire will be on Saturday, June 5, 2010. Last year's event was a huge success, and we are looking forward to seeing what will happen this year! Check out their website for more details, and to sign up to exhibit at the Faire. See you there!
Read more »Movie made using cross stitch
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Filmmaker and crafter Holly Klein combined her talents to produce this short, Maggie and Mildred. All of the set pieces and characters were cross stitched by hand, then scanned into a computer and animated. [via fem!n*Ally]
Read more »Math Monday: Math-play with your food
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Math-play with your food
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics
Making things with your food is an age-old pastime. Here are two mathematical constructions made from crackers.
This illustrates the Pythagorean Theorem for a 5-12-13 right triangle. The number of crackers in the two small squares (25+144) equals the number of crackers in the square on the hypotenuse (169).
Read more »Winners at the North American Handmade Bicycle show
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Yesterday I took a Sunday Scroll over at the North American Handmade Bicycle show site, drooling over the bikes pictured with their enthusiastic creators. With categories like "best fillet brazing" and "best carbon fiber," it's clearly a maker's kind of tradeshow.
Read more »In the Maker Shed: Vacuum Tube Radio Kit
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The Vacuum Tube Radio Kit allows you to put together a real, functional, vacuum-tube radio! And it looks so sharp, once you've built it you're going to want to show it off. Includes instructions in Japanese, but we've got English instructions right here under the "How To" tab. MAKE is proud to be the exclusive distributor in North America for these brilliant kits, part of Gakken's Sophisticated Science Kit for Adults series.
Read more »Brilliant low-tech soil moisture sensor
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Two galvanized nails set in a plug of plaster-of-Paris. That's it. The Cheap Vegetable Gardener, who created the sensor for an automated grow box project, explains:
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