The economy is down, so what's one way you can save money? Build a vertical axis wind turbine! This eco-friendly four-part video tutorial will show you just how to make one so you can save money. These are detailed steps for making the vertical axis wind turbine. The blades can be easily interchanged offering different shapes and materials to experiment with. This design can create turbines up to 90 inches in diameter and up to 15 feet tall.
Watch as a seasoned expert demonstrates how to build a BBQ pit fire to slow-cook your meat, as well as provides important safety tips, in this free online video about home cooking.
Watch this how-to video showing how to build a log cabin fire, which is an easy to build and easy to light fire that can be built using woods from any environment (especially an environment where you find log cabins!)
This video will teach you how to build your own Teddy Bear. Part 1 of 2 - How to Make a Teddy bear at Build a Bear Workshops.
Getting tired of playing Minecraft in the Minecraft world? Play Minecraft in the real world! Watch this video to see how you can build a Minecraft shelter in real life. Sorry, no download link for the real life texture pack.
Want to know what lifts the Navy SEALs do? Check out this video to learn how to build real strength, with just three simple exercises. Good form is important in powerlifting, so make sure you know what you are doing before you start an exercise.
Building a really strong deck in a collectible card game represent at least half of the fun. This video will teach you some general tips and strategies you can use to stronger Yu-Gi-Oh! decks and win more games. The key: monster balance.
Elder Dragon Highlander is an awesome variation of Magic: The Gathering, and this video will teach you how to build an amazing deck for it. It's a white mono soldier deck based around Darien: King of Kjeldor.
Build your own miniature gryocar from a toy gyroscope in this fun little project with Kipkay and make it ride on skinny tracks! All you need is a toy gyroscope, a spraypaint canister top to fit the gyroscope assembly, and some assorted parts that you could probably find around the house (or at your local hardware store). Ask your parents for permission first!
Fabricate and build door bars (aka sissy bars) for a full tube chassis 1981 Camaro racecar by following along in this instructional video with Jeri Ellsworth. The door bars are being built for a very rugged car, designed to withstand a large amount of side impact. Tools and materials needed for this project include 1 3/4 x .120 tubing, an "Affordable Bender" tubing bender, a Millermatic welder and a Hypertherm 43 plasma cutter.
This is a great machine you can build on a shared Minecraft server which will no doubt annoy the pants off your friends! Wire up a couple doors to some redstone circuits - as some open, others will close ad infinitum!
A cyclorama wall will have a seamless connection between the all the various pieces of the wall, including where it meets the floor. This tutorial shows you how to build your own cyclorama wall using concrete, drywall and white paint.
Spooky fog-emitting items like coffins and cauldrons are iconic parts of many haunted houses, but are terribly expensive to buy premade. If you're got some DIY know-how, watch this video for a guide to building a coffin fog chiller for your fog machine yourself for a Halloween display, horror film effect, or just because you like foggy coffins. This thing is a BEAST, it will cover your whole lawn if fog by itself.
LEGOs are more than just a toy for young children— it's an emerging art form combining photography, stop-motion (i.e., brickfilms), and imitative models that portray today's pop culture as it is. It's something visual culture analysts are sure to be studying over the next decade, and Chris McVeigh, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, is sure to be studied for his LEGO mastery.
Before there was digital music and fancy computers and music software, people use to employ the power of the electric color organ (now more commonly known as the "light organ") to add some visuals in sync with their music. MAKE shows you how to build your own sound-to-like circuit— your very own light organ!
The Eldar can be the most powerful army in Warhammer 40,000 if used properly, but using them right is easier said than done. In this video you'll learn how to make a really awesome 1750-point Eldar army that will mop up any other army in the game.
A remote control for a camera? Why not! You won't have to worry about racing the timer function any more! Build a remote control for your digital camera that will take the picture whenever you want. The range is as far as two miles!
You can construct your own burning red laser very easily and very cheaply. All you need are a soldering iron, Phillips head screwdriver, an LPC-815 laser diode, and a RKCSTR driver. Once you have everything together, follow this video to build a burning red laser.
A DSLR cage from a professional photographer supply store will cost at least a few hundred dollars, but you can build one yourself for around 50 bucks. This tutorial shows you how to use a few pipes, metal struts and a few pieces of hardware and tools to make your own digital SLR cage for shooting steady videos on your digital camera.
Now you've got a little bit of a fortress going, and it's time to continue building your infrastructure. This video will show you how to build bedrooms, farms, and stairs.
Open upper shelving is an efficient and esthetically pleasing way to add storage to your home, and isn't to hard to build yourself. This video will show you how to make custom DIY wooden upper shelves that can fit in any space and improve nearly any room.
Wine racks are one of the easiest and best-looking DIY pieces you can add to your kitchen. They're sort of the adult equivalent of making a birdhouse or a spice rack in shop class. This video will show you how to build a really nice wooden one yourself that goes over your refrigerator and will hold about 30 bottles of wine or liquor.
After 12 years Starcraft 2 is finally here to blow your mind. If you're looking for help with the game, you've come to the right place. We have tons of videos about how to do just about everything in the game. We have strategies for winning campaign and multiplayer games. We have guides to using the immensely powerful level editor. We'll even teach you how to build a Terran Barracks out of Legos. This video will show you how to build an effective and diverse army of Terran units that utilizes...
This is a quick Zerg tutorial for the upcoming StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty game using the StarCraft 2 Beta game. HuskyStarcraft gives you all the advice needed for the standard Roach opener with the Zerg race. It's a really great build to your own friends. Check out the build order below.
This tutorial walks through the process of building a grungy scene. Starting with an overview of the process and scene elements, you will learn how to use stacked layers. Mixing them with alpha channels you can build up complex materials; in this case rust and dirt on a nice clean object. You will learn how to set up moody lighting, with volume effects and dust to add to the overall old & dirty look. Whether you're new to MAXON's popular 3D modeling application or are just looking to get bett...
Cardio intervals, circuit training, plate exercises...when it comes to fitness, it seems like there's always a fancy name for what are essentially really easy yet effective strength building, fat burning, and toning exercises.
In this clip, the eighth installment in Sean Devlin's "Full Disclojure" series of Clojure video tutorials, you'll see how to use Leiningen, a popular Clojure build system. One of the most obvious perks of using the Clojure is the user community organized around it, which make learning the language a pleasure (and a simple one at that). For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
In this clip, learn how to make a "Cantenna". A cantenna is a high powered WiFi antenna that can be used with any computer or device that is made out of an ordinary soup can. After you have enjoyed a couple of big bowls of chicken noodle soup, save the can and head into your workshop. This clip will walk you through the relatively easy process of building this cheap, yet powerful antenna.
Want to program your own Java games and applications but don't know beans about object-oriented programming? Never you fear. This free video tutorial from TheNewBostonian will have you coding your own Java apps in no time flat. Specifically, this lesson discusses how to build a custom time class in the Java programming language. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this helpful programmer's guide.
Want to program your own Java games and applications but don't know beans about object-oriented programming? Never you fear. This free video tutorial from TheNewBostonian will have you coding your own Java apps in no time flat. Specifically, this lesson discusses how to build objects for multiple constructors when writing code in Java. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this helpful programmer's guide.
Want to play Harry Dacre's "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" on your ukulele? Learn how with this free video ukulele lesson from Ukulele Mike. Whether you play the ukulele or bass kazoo, there is no better way to improve your chops than by learning to play your favorite songs. Not only is it more fun and much easier than running drills or memorizing a chord book by wrote, it's obviously also a wonderful way to build your repertory of songs. For more information, and to get started playing ...
In this how to video, you will learn how to build a patio enclosure with seating walls. You will need measuring tape, a level, a dead blow hammer, a square, masking tape, safety glasses, and work gloves. You will need the courtyard collection as well. First, draw out a plan for the enclosure. Mark the locations of the posts and panels with tape. Openings should be three to four feet wide. Start building walls at posts. Adjustments must be made at corners. Start by placing four corner blocks. ...
In order to make A Building Block Birthday Cake, you will need the following: a 13 x 9” cake, marshmallows, scissors (pre-treated with nonstick cooking spray), and bright colored frosting.
This video illustrate us how to build a patio seating wall or wall panel. Here are the following steps:
Sure, carbon and oxygen are two of very most fundamental building blocks of all life on Earth — but what have they done for you lately? With this free video guide, you'll learn how to build a safe, simple carbon-dioxide-powered bottle rocket with baking soda and a spent soft plastic waterball.
In this two-part science tutorial, learn how to make a DIY reed instrument! By cutting the end of a drinking straw you can make a musical reed instrument that you can actually play a tune on. Within these videos, you will also gain some insite into the science of sound and music.
In this informative video, Reggie Bennett from the Mountain Shepherd Survival School shows you how to make a basic shelter in the woods. It's simpler than you'd think. Whether you're planning a campy trip or you're trying to prepare for any potential disasters, it's important to know to build shelter in a hurry.
What's a proton pack without a ghost trap? Useless, that's what. Don't pay megabucks for some fake Ghostbusters costume when you can build your own with household materials.
MAKE zine aims to bring the DIY aesthetic and mindset to all the technology in your life. They want you to break open things and put them back together in a better way. In this video, MAKE and KipKay show you how to build a lost screw finder attachment. It'll help you find any screw, including plastic ones that a magnet would not be able to pick up.
This time on the show, bypassing restrictive firewalls with a free and open source virtual private network server for Windows and Linux that will have you connecting back to the home or office with just a web browser! Best of all? It's free! Check out this video for detailed information on how to build an SSL VPN.
