Gearfuse

There are times when I’m working on a project and soldering just isn’t an option. Maybe I’m away from my workbench or at an entirely different location collaborating with another artist. I wish I had known about Wire Glue, which is a prototyper’s wet dream. You simple glue wire together with it and it’ll conduct electricity to keep your circuit going. It’s durable, easy-to-apply and doesn’t require a heat gun or any sort of bullshit like that. And at $4, you have no excuse as to why you haven’t bought a can yet.

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If a gadget can make Totino’s Pizza Rolls and attach LEDs to a board, it’s good in my book. Such is the case with this amazing hack from Cornell students Ko Ihara and Kashif Javed. These guys turned a basic toaster oven into a soldering iron. The LED display even outputs temperature thanks to an ATmega32 microcontroller.

If you want to build your own, the instructions are up on the student’s site. Take warning though, as it’s a dangerous mod for doing somewhat-dangerous work. If I had a dollar for every time I burned myself on a toaster or soldering iron, I’d buy Gearfuse.com and turn it into a porn site.

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