04-20-2009, 08:55 AM
At the last GoE Drink & Think I shared an idea for a creating a low cost
variable power supply we can use to create hot-wire foam tools. I mean, we all
worship at the alter of pink and blue foam and hot-wire is great, but the pro
tools are ridiculously over priced. GoE member Pete and I kicked the idea back
and forth, and a few days later he shot me an email saying not only had he
figured it out on the cheap, he built one!
I really shouldn't have been surprised. Pete is the defacto mad scientist at GoE
Labs, and this wasn't the 1st time he took and idea and ran with it to great
success.
Pete's design is perfect in its simplicity, it works great, and it costs about
$20 bucks!
Soon after he built his, he started developing a how-to which I tested by
building one, and then another for a friend. Tests were a 110% "this rocks!"
success. So much so that I decided to build a fancy new foam tool around it. I
really hope the community digs this, because compared to the cost of the pro
rigs, this is incredible and it works just awesome.
Pete's $20 variable hot-wire power supply:
http://garageofevil.ning.com/profiles/bl...twire-foam
My how to for building a pro-rig for cheap:
http://garageofevil.ning.com/profiles/bl...or-extreme
variable power supply we can use to create hot-wire foam tools. I mean, we all
worship at the alter of pink and blue foam and hot-wire is great, but the pro
tools are ridiculously over priced. GoE member Pete and I kicked the idea back
and forth, and a few days later he shot me an email saying not only had he
figured it out on the cheap, he built one!
I really shouldn't have been surprised. Pete is the defacto mad scientist at GoE
Labs, and this wasn't the 1st time he took and idea and ran with it to great
success.
Pete's design is perfect in its simplicity, it works great, and it costs about
$20 bucks!
Soon after he built his, he started developing a how-to which I tested by
building one, and then another for a friend. Tests were a 110% "this rocks!"
success. So much so that I decided to build a fancy new foam tool around it. I
really hope the community digs this, because compared to the cost of the pro
rigs, this is incredible and it works just awesome.
Pete's $20 variable hot-wire power supply:
http://garageofevil.ning.com/profiles/bl...twire-foam
My how to for building a pro-rig for cheap:
http://garageofevil.ning.com/profiles/bl...or-extreme