Let’s wind down the weekend with some jobs that didn’t rather warrant their own feature, however we believe they’re still worth a look.
First up is a quick tip on cracking the lids on those difficult to open jars of food. [Jason] states just grab about a foot of duct tape as well as the lid will come flying off. as well as while you’re searching for that roll of tape why not grab some foil tape to develop a cooking oven. [Gabriel] developed this solar oven by covering rounded wedges of cardboard with foil tape as well as integrating them to type a parabolic reflector.
Next we’ve got a trio of hacks that will are available in useful in your house shop or at the local Hackerspace. organization is key, as well as here’s a resistor storage system that utilizes #6 envelopes [via Reddit]. likewise useful is the tip from [Felix] about utilizing a tile saw to get clean cuts on your circuit boards. as well as if you’ve ever been plagued by a laser cutter task that doesn’t completely sever the material [Dan] composed a guide on utilizing a fence to ensure that you can reposition the piece for one more run.
Finally, we’re hoping we weren’t the only ones that didn’t recognize the Raspberry Pi has an unpopulated footprint for a reset button. now we’ve got to figure out if it’s okay to leave the PSU plugged in (based on it’s present usage while the RPi is in power down) as well as hack together some kind of TV-based reset circuit for our RPi XBMC setup.