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WikiHouse will be shared via a Creative Commons license for anyone to adapt and improve. A WikiHouse is fabricated from locally sourced plywood cut on a CNC mill from openly shared template files, and assembled with minimal skill by local people. [Via Ponoko]

Anybody who's interested in metalworking and machining, and has spent any time online, has likely bumped into "Tubalcain." And anybody who has encountered his amazing metalworking/machining videos is almost certainly a fan. And what's not to love? He's a retired machinist and shop teacher from Illinois who's capturing a lifetime of working wisdom onto video and sharing these tutorials with the world.

...Scientists have long sought easier ways to make the costly material known as enriched uranium — the fuel of nuclear reactors and bombs, now produced only in giant industrial plants.

Atarity from Izhevsk in the Russian Federation wrote in to share his project, Lightpack, a LED-managing board that plugs into a display and changes the RGB levels depending on what is displayed on the screen.

I was about five pages in when I discovered a major obstacle: I didn't have any of the tools the book required to do the suggested projects and experiments. I realized that despite my commitment to learning and my eagerness to get started, my goal of going from Zero to Maker would be impossible if I didn't have the right tools.

Here's another video of one of the many projects I've been messing with lately, its a legless bunk set-up called "The Krunk Bunk" that was one of two projects we took on in our Relax Shacks July Tiny Housing/Shelter/Building workshop in MA.

Jeremy Mayer's typewriter assemblages are sculptural pieces made purely from typewriter parts. In a process he calls "reassemblage", Mayer fits the pieces together into likenesses of living creatures using no welds, glue, solder, or external parts. He taks about and shoe his work at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011.

More cool original content from Hack a Day, this time by Kevin Dady. He writes: "I was recently commissioned to make a device which uses a pretty large number display, and I went out shopping. The seven segment we liked best was still quite pricey, and would not fit our enclosure correctly anyway..."

Everyone that solders is familiar with "solder smoke." Most people just blow it away when it gets annoying or angle themselves away from it as they work. Try as you might, you are still going to inhale some of the fumes. That's why you need the Mini Fume Extractor Kit from the Maker Shed.

Cornell students Anson Dorsey, Eric Gunther, and Jonathon Smythe built this controller as part of their “Designing with Microcontrollers” class. It uses flex sensors on the fingers to determine the note to play as well as the force of the touch. [Via Embedded Devices]