Daily DIY

Pedal powered table saw

Becky Stern — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:00:26 +0000

Etsy is running a project, calling for videos of essential or favorite tools. This one takes the cake for me - a pedal-powered tablesaw demonstrated and explained by Etsy user Woodmosaics (from Spickard, Missouri). Incredible! He has a flickr set it, too.

5 ways to unblock websites at your school/work

liammk — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:28:20 +0000

here are 5 ways to unblock websites at your school/work.

in order of how easy they are

i take no responsibility for what you do with this information

google cached

1)Google the website
2)click cached

example

http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:d6cNQUG6Bu0J:www.miniclip.com/+miniclip&amp...

By: liammk

Teach your guinea pig to run in a circle

guineapiglover — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:58:57 +0000

Teach your guinea pig to run in a circle on command! Teaching your guinea pig tricks builds a special bond between you and your pig! This is my first instructable, so I hope you like it! :)

http://www.instructables.com/static/img/pixel.gif

Make sure that you are trusted

To do this trick, y...

By: guineapiglover

Teach your guinea pig to run in a circle

guineapiglover — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:58:57 +0000

Sweet Coffee Table

Matt4_16 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:08:56 +0000

Well i am a engineering college student who needed a coffee table for a cheap price so i got creative.

NEED/OBTAIN:

1. Two cardboard boxes (whatever size you want)
2. Duct Tape
3. Road Sign (garage sale , online stores, or where ever you might be able to "pick" one up), can substitute an...

By: Matt4_16

Sweet Coffee Table

Matt4_16 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:08:56 +0000

Headless laptop mod

Becky Stern — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:00:21 +0000

Sarc had a tibook with a broken LCD, so he removed it and uses an external monitor. From the MacNN forum post:

Since I operate the computer on "closed-lid" mode, I was having trouble keeping the LCD closed because it didn't allow the heat to dissipate, so the fans where running constantly ... I removed it. After it was gone, the computer would still think that it had an LCD attached. After a lot of Googling, I found on this helpful page that a magnet-operated sensor manages the 'open' or 'closed' status of the lid. The magnet was inside the lid, so I removed it and now its under the masking tape shown on Pic. 1. It has to be placed on that precise spot on top of the trackpad.

Via Hackaday.

PWNING your iPod Touch, step by step

phant0m_sp00f3ra — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:33:37 +0000

The Process of pwning your iPod will actually modify your bootloader so you can run unsigned Firmware images, there's a small risk o(none if you follow instructions) however i'm not liable for anything that happens to your iToy, this is for "educational purposes only"
That translates into...

By: phant0m_sp00f3ra

PWNING your iPod Touch, step by step

phant0m_sp00f3ra — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:33:37 +0000

Smack Ball

smileypear84 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:28:43 +0000

Smack ball is a two or four player game on the court.

Rules and Intructions:

The Objective of the game is to earn 1000 points.

There is one player to each box.

For team smack ball, you have 2 outs per team until the other team gets the ball.

The player who is decided gets to surve first.

If y...

By: smileypear84

Smack Ball

smileypear84 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:28:43 +0000

[slideshow] my knex vehicles

general zee — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:02:00 +0000

my vehicles.

By: general zee

[slideshow] my knex vehicles

general zee — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:02:00 +0000

my vehicles.

By: general zee

How To: Make Bath Bombs

SoapyHollow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:59:14 +0000

Everybody loves bath bombs. It is like taking a bath in champagne, only without the show tunes and chorus boys. They are fairly simple to make, keeping in mind that the strangest things can make a batch go weird; humidity, room temperature, oil viscosity, the moon rising in the seventh house of Aqua...

By: SoapyHollow

Wetshaving for the Common Man

Basta — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:59:14 +0000

The process of shaving had remained relatively unchanged since its primeval beginnings--using just one blade stropped and sharpened to the most infinitesimal degree, hot water and a rich lather, a man would cut the hair right off of his face in a few steady, trained motions. It was a ritualistic act...

By: Basta

How To: Make Bath Bombs

SoapyHollow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:59:14 +0000

Wetshaving for the Common Man

Basta — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:59:14 +0000

iTape

djbtenerife — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:44:24 +0000

Aqui les dejo una cosa que se me ocurrio mientras buscaba una solucion para llevar mi iPod Touch con comodidad y de forma digna (aunque no se si al final quedo muy digno). Se trata de una funda para el iPod Touch realizada con Duct Tape (cinta americana).

Yo buscaba una funda ideal, algo que me per...

By: djbtenerife

iTape

djbtenerife — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:44:24 +0000

Automatic Pepper Grinder!

majjck — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:06:11 +0000

In this instructable, i will show you how to make a drill powered pepper grinder. My inspiration for this instructable came from the show "Good Eats" with Alton Brown. This pepper grinder can grind a tablespoon of pepper in about 5 seconds, with no trouble at all. Try this easy project and...

By: majjck

Automatic Pepper Grinder!

majjck — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:06:11 +0000

[video] Add Laser Guidance to any Gun

shoemaker — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:50:53 +0000

In this video I'll show you my $4 solution to laser sights that I used on my marshmallow gun. Then I demonstrate the dead-on accuracy of this laser guidance system. You can adapt this Instructable to all kinds of guns.

You gotta see how well this works.

By: shoemaker

[video] Add Laser Guidance to any Gun

shoemaker — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:50:53 +0000

Levelhead - augmented reality game

Collin Cunningham — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Levelhead by Julian Oliver is an "augmented-reality spatial-memory game" using semacode imprinted cubes as player interface -

levelHead uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors.

In one of these rooms is a character. By tilting the cube the player directs this character from room to room in an effort to find the exit.

Some doors lead nowhere and will send the character back to the room they started in, a trick designed to challenge the player's spatial memory. Which doors belong to which rooms?

There are three cubes (levels) in total, each of which are connected by a single door. Players have the goal of moving the character from room to room, cube to cube in an attempt to find the final exit door of all three cubes. If this door is found the character will appear to leave the cube, walk across the table surface and vanish.. The game then begins again.

- learn more @ Julian's site - Levelhead

[Thanks, Edgar!]

Scientific laboratories at night

Collin Cunningham — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0000

Seed Magazine posted an interesting photo series documenting scientific laboratories after dark. Describing the top photo above -

Much of the fundamental knowledge that underpins our search for extraterrestrial life and supports our understanding of our solar system's history and evolution emerges from this small room in Theodor Kostiuk's laboratory. On the rightmost table, infrared light from a powerful carbon dioxide laser excites various molecules to reveal their spectroscopic signatures. This and other lasers in the lab often operate overnight to increase the precision of their measurements.

- Labs At Night [via Music Thing]