DIY Picture Frames Size Calculator

Have you ever tryed to make your own picture frames? If so you know what I am talking about: to me it was a headache understanding what size to cut the frame in order to have a perfect fit of the picture. After some errors and loss of time I then decided to make it…

DIY Picture Frame Jig for BOSCH PTS10 table saws

Sorry! This page is still under construction Have you ever tried to make yourself a custom picture frame? I did, actually a lot of times and making picture frames has been the first reason for me to begin to dive in the woodworking cosmos. That day, a few years ago, I wanted to buy some…

DIY Picture Frame with reclaimed wood

Sorry this page is under construction Last year I went with my wife to an art exhibition in Mantova about Mirò. We then decided to buy a print of one of Mirò’s most famous paints an from that day this picture has been in the wardrobe. Yesterday I decided it was the time to try…

DIY Security System – final steps

Last things to do for this project are: Select and attach power supply to be connected directly to the line Make the system activate the alarm Add a GSM or GPRS module in order to communicate with mobile phones In this post I will briefly show you and describe what I did for the first…

DIY Cyclonic Dust Collector

Woodworking especially if you are a DIYer is all about patience. You’ll need time to learn everything even if at the beginning you strongly believe that working with wood is simple and easy. Well it is not. As soon as you’ll start thinking of making your first simple object, for example a small box, you’ll…

TACKLIFE PRS01A Random Orbit Sander

After a long time, here I am again. I had a lot of stuff to do at home because I am reorganising my apartment for the birth of my first child: first I painted the walls of his room which was before actually my studio and then tried to put all of my stuff in…

Adobe InDesign automation with VBA

After months of research and experiments I finally find out how to do it, it is simply awesome and I am so proud of it. The problem I wanted to solve was this: how to automate the pagination of a big catalog without spending any effort by hitting recursively CTRL+C and then CTRL-V and being…

DIY Security System welding

After having some coding I finally came out with a good result even if not totally completed as the gsm module is still not connected and for the time being I think I will leave it as is and try it like that in order to see if there are some kind of hidden bugs…