Drills make round holes. That’s just the way it is. You can’t drill a square hole with a drill. Or can you? Yes you can, and without reaching for the saw. A new accessory called the Quadsaw lets your drill cut square and rectangular holes, and it is faster than using an electric saw.
It actually makes sense when you look at the Quadsaw’s design. It uses the drill to power a set of four reciprocating saw blades that work together to cut either a square or rectangular hole once it sets a center point with the drill bit. It’s a game changer for installing outlet boxes in drywall. However it does look like it only drills two pre-set sizes of hole.
Coming from a UK-based company, the Quadsaw is priced at £199 (~$250 USD), which isn’t cheap, but well worth it if you’re in a profession where you need to cut lots of square holes.
When you are drilling holes and driving screws, it can be a pain to continually swap bits or grab another tool for the job. Most of us have both a drill and a screwdriver. However, Worx’s new Switchdriver puts both in one handy tool.
It features a two-headed rotating chuck so you can switch bits on the fly and get stuff done much faster, with less hassle. This is perfect for those who don’t need mega power, but need to get projects done quickly. It is nice to see a tool company is thinking about the user and not just making the same old “new” tools that offer nothing new.
This will definitely be going on my tool shelf. List price for the Switchdriver is $119.99, but it’s available now over at Amazon for just $89.99.
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Sure, you could get yourself one of those fancy electric longboards that are all the rage right now, but they’re expensive. Fully decked out, one of these will cost you around $1,600(USD), and will take time to arrive. Say you don’t have that cash lying around, and feel the need for speed now. Well, there is one clever solution, but be warned, it is silly.
Apparently, he was able to get up to about 10 mph with practice. Not bad. This is certainly a fun way to ride around town if you don’t mind looking weird doing it.
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By Doug Mahoney
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After using 16 drills to drive 1,669 3-inch screws and bore 345 1-inch holes, we're convinced that...
Last year, we saw an angle-grinder chucking compact discs at high speed. La Fabrique DIY came up with a similar but less life-threatening contraption by repurposing a drill to launch frisbees.
The crude but effective launcher uses the drill to turn a bicycle wheel, which in turn flings the frisbees with the help of a wooden feeder.
Unfortunately, La Fabrique DIY didn’t provide a detailed guide for the launcher, so you might lose a frisbee or 10 while you’re perfecting your own build.
[via Gadgetify]
Its not like many people go around complaining about how hard it is to jam a beach umbrella in the sand. But then again, it’s not because something is already easy that it couldn’t be easier. That’s the entire point of technology, isn’t it? In any case, the DrillBeach is an electric beach umbrella that features a corkscrew at the bottom; press a button and it easily digs itself into the sand with barely any effort on your part. Since it’s electric, this means it uses a battery, which you can then use to charge your electronic devices through its integrated USB port.
It’s not a life changing product, to be sure. But if you’re already in the market for a beach umbrella, you might consider dropping the €30, or roughly $32 they’re asking in their Kickstarter. It’s far from being funded, so we’re not sure you’ll ever get a product, but if it does fund, shipping is expected in September.
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Some people don’t mind drinking a beer at room temperature, but I think most of us prefer it to be chilled. It takes at-least 10 to 15 minutes in the refrigerator before you can get it chilled. Who has the time for that when there’s drinking to be done? Well, now you can chill your beer in under a minute.
The answer? The Spin Chill. This little first world problem solver spins an individual beer can inside your ice chest. It’s basically a drill bit with cap on the top. That cap holds your beer. You supply the spin.
But what if you’re too lazy to get the drill out of the garage? Go for the Beerouette - a complete mini drill that you attach your beer to and spin. If you want to get in on this, head on over to Kickstarter by October 17th. The bit by itself is going for $12, and comes in versions for either bottles or cans, while the Beerouette sells for $35, and can chill either bottles or cans.
[via Damn Geeky]
NASA scientists won't have to wait until InSight's 2016 drilling mission to see what lies beneath the surface of Mars -- Curiosity is already on the case. After developing a taste for Martian soil late last year, the intrepid rover has started exploring the red planet's bedrock, drilling a 0.63 inch (1.6 cm) wide hole 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) deep into Mars' surface. Curiosity will spend the next several days analyzing the resulting powder in hopes of finding evidence of a once-wet planet. The shallow hole marks the first drilling operation ever carried out on Mars, and getting there wasn't easy. "Building a tool to interact forcefully with unpredictable rocks on Mars required an ambitious development and testing program," explained Louise Jandura, the chief engineer of the rover's sample system. "To get to the point of making this hole in a rock on Mars we made eight drills and bored more than 1,200 holes in 20 types of rock on Earth." The Rover tested its drill by creating a shallower hole earlier this month, though samples will only be used from the second, deeper cavity. Check out the source link for more images of the operation, including an animated GIF of the drill in action.
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Via: Bloomberg
Source: NASA