Cristiano Maker

 One of my hobbies is to build electronics projects, like metal detectors for treasure hunting. Usually electronics boards are hold inside a plastic or metal box. There both in the market, but usually they are not so cheap. One solution I thought about, was to build my own boxes using aluminum sheet as it is a soft metal. Although aluminum is soft, for the thickness I want to use (2mm) it is not so easy to bend it by hand, so I searched a bit how to make a tool to bend the metal with the less effort possible and with good results at the end, I came up with this, using only 3 pieces of wood, 2 screws with bolts and 2 hinges: This is known as a sheet metal brake, mine is simple, made of pine wood but I recommend you to use harder woods, specially if you need to bend metals harder tha aluminum. I think you can replicate one easily just by looking at the pictures above, so I'm not provinding any measurements but if you need, please write a comment below. For different sizes or formats ...

 As I work almost all day sitting down, there comes a time in the day when I get fed up of staying in that position for so long. So, I decided to make a simple and small desk that I can put on top of my main table and this is the result: This way I can simply add or remove the small table at any time I want to work standing up. Obviously there are in the market beautiful and comfortable standing desks, but at least here in Brazil, they are quite expensive so I decided to make mine with a few pieces of wood and 4 screws!