How To: Hold your cello bow
Take a bow. This brief video tutorial demonstrates how to use your thumb and pointer finger to form a basic cello hold while familiarizing you with some of the more common pitfalls among cello novices.
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How To: Origami a Milky Way ornament of papercraft
Watch this instructional video to learn how to make an origami paper Milky Way ornament. With one piece of origami paper and a pair of scissors, one can form a beautiful ornament that is sometimes used for Tanabata, the Japanese festival of stars. This and other paper ornaments can be combined to create larger decorative pieces.
How To: Properly execute the backhand in Tennis
Want to improve your backhand? Proper technique and form are extremely important for this move. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to execute the backhand with Pro Tour Coach Paul Baccanello.
How To: Improve your forehand in Tennis
Do you play tennis? Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to improve your forearm. This tutorial covers hand grip, form, and technique.
How To: Play banjo licks on a two note melodic scale in G
This banjo tutorial goes over working with a two note melodic scale in G major to form ideas for licks. This lesson teaches you improvisational techniques on the banjo. You will also learn the 3 different types of the melodic scales. Watch this how to video and you will be able to play banjo licks on a two note melodic scale in G major.
How To: Draft a lower torso or skirt sloper
This video tutorial demonstrates the steps for drafting a sloper that shows the exact shape of an individual's body between the waist and the hips. It can be used to create skirts for women, the top of pants for men and women, and body doubles (aka Dress Forms). Learn how to draft a lower torso sloper by watching this video fashion design tutorial.
How To: Dissolve styrofoam with acetone
Dissolve styrofoam with acetone using tips from this how-to video. Acetone breaks the structure of polystyrene in its expanded form, styrofoam. The 'foam' bit goes away. In other words, acetone "dissolves" polystyrene.
How To: Cast on with the rib cable cast on method for knitting
This video is designed to give lots of clear and helpful information regarding the rib cable cast on" method, also referred to as the "alternate cable cast on" method. It is used as an edging for rib fabrics and forms a somewhat 'invisible' cast on edge that blends perfectly with the rib texture.
How To: Knit the stocking stitch or the stockinette stitch
This video is designed to give lots of clear and helpful information about stocking stitch, aka stockinette stitch, which forms the basis of many knitted garments.
How To: Use basic AutoCAD 3-D functions
This AutoCAD 3D tutorial covers some fun with AutoCAD in making 3-D graphics using 3-D functions and rendering solid form.
How To: Remove a throttle body from a car
The throttle body forms part of the air intake system that controls the amount of air flowing into the car's engine. Watch this how to video to learn how to remove the "air pedal" or throttle body from your vehicle.
How To: Learn Vietnamese commands
Linguist Bud Brown shares some insights and advice about learning Vietnamese. This video talks about how to say the imperative (command) form.
How To: Learn Vietnamese tag questions
Linguist Bud Brown share his insights on tag questions in Vietnamese. Bud first explains what are tag questions, then teaches how to form the tag question in Vietnamese. It's fun and easy, isn't it?
How To: Learn tagalog "My and Your"
Linguist, Bud Brown shares his insights into the personal possessive forms "my" and "your". You gotta know these words and how to use them for everyday conversation for tagalog.
How To: Obtain a neutral grip on your golf club
BPS golf instructor Steve Bishop discusses how to put your hands on the club properly to form a neutral golf grip. This grip video is different from his first. He goes into more detail about the function of the grip and some finer points not usually discussed.
How To: Ask questions in the present perfect tense in English
An English teacher shows how to make the present perfect tense in the form of a question.
How To: Construct past tense yes/no questions in English
Learn how to construct yes or no questions in the past tense in English. The helping verb "did" and the simple form of the main verb make a question.
How To: Use the negative form of the verb "to be" in English
Learn how to make the verb "to be" negative in English.
How To: Work your horse drawn carriage's air suspension
Air suspension (or pneumatic as it is sometimes called) is now fitted to many new carriages. It takes the form of very tough, rubberized air bags that are used throughout the world on industrial plant machinery. Learn how to understand and use it.
How To: Pick arpeggios on acoustic guitar
Charles Sedlak shows you how to perform arpeggio picking - a note played in single chord form, or a broken chord. This video is good for beginners.
How To: Make a vortex with the Tesla CD turbine
Use the Tesla CD Turbine running off tap water-pressure as an experimental testbed.
How To: Read crochet instructions
Crochet instructions are the linguistics of crochet. Crochet instructions normally come in the form of crochet patterns for example crochet baby blanket. Learn how to understand them by watching this video.
How To: Play paradiddles on your drums kit
In percussion, the paradiddle is a four-note pattern of the form RLRR or LRLL. When multiple paradiddles are played in succession, the first note always alternates between right and left. Paradiddles. Isn't that a funny word? It's reason enough to watch this.
How To: Use the noatikl generative music VSTi with Cubase
This video tutorial shows how to use the noatikl generative music VSTi with Cubase, for both Windows and Mac. noatikl is a generative (MIDI) music engine. It creates musical information in the form of MIDI notes, and can also generate and send MIDI controller information.
How To: Increase invisibly in knitting
This video explains how to increase a knit stitch by knitting into the same stitch twice. This forms an invisible increase.
How To: Make a magnesium reaction in dry ice
This reaction is between metallic magnesium and carbon dioxide. Magnesium reacts with oxygen in the air to form magnesium oxide, but when the only source of oxygen is from CO2 the reaction becomes much more energetic. The products are white magnesium oxide and black carbon.
How To: Do the bodybuilding incline superset exercise
Here is a great chest superset you can do at home with a cheap dumbbell set. Big gyms are nice but when you can get a killer workout at home without the overhead of getting to and from the gym. In this chest superset I am going to do incline press followed immediately by an incline fly variant. Make sure and use a really light weight on the flys so you can maintain good form.
How To: Make a glass flower
Watch to learn how to use fire to make a flower out of glass. Manipulating glass like this takes a lot of patience and requires separating and joining the glass together until it forms into the shape you want. Make sure to wear gloves and goggles!
How To: Use the passive voice in the English language
In this three part video language lesson, Jennifer goes over the passive voice: what the passive is, how it's formed, and why it's used in the English language. This is great for all levels of students learning English as a second language (ESL). Watch this video language tutorial and learn how to use the passive voice while speaking or writing English.
How To: Warm up for basketball with back pedal drills
Learn the correct form for running the "Back Pedal" drill around half the basketball court, then learn the correct way to warm up with this backward running drill.
How To: Warm up for basketball with Russian March drills
Learn how to warm up for basketball with an effective stretch walk for the legs and core known as the Russian March. First see the proper form to use, then some drills.
How To: Warm up for basketball with lunge walks
Learn how to warm up to play basketball with a great stretching exercise for your leg muscles: lunge walks. First see the proper form, then see some drills.
How To: Do a seated spinal twist pose
Joe Kulak is a dedicated and passionate yoga teacher certified through Yoga Synthesis. Joe has been studying and teaching various forms of yoga for over a decade. Here he shows us how to do a seated spinal twist pose.
How To: Glue PVC pipes
Learn some basic plumbing skills. Watch this video to learn how to glue PVC joint pipes together to form your drain lines.
How To: Harvest Lophophora peyote pups from grafted scions
Lophophora harvest. This video is a quick demonstration on how I harvest Lophophora pups from grafted lophophora stock. When harvesting lophophora make sure of the following: Its spring or summer; You place your pups in a dry shady spot to heal; Also dust the mom and pups with sulfur to prevent rot.
How To: Do plyometric push-ups
Plyometrics is a form of exercise where you get the muscles to stretch before contracting. It also tends to get your heart rate up more. This video shows you how to do a plyometric version of a push-up.
How To: Make needle felt animals
In this video Corinne Bradd shows Kristy Clark the technique of felting, by matting together the fibres of unspun of wool with a barbed needle to create a dense form that can be shaped.
How To: Automate web testing with PAMIE
This Pamie Demo shows how to setup, install and run a simple automation script. It shows you: how to install Pamie, how to create a Pamie test script to Automate a form using PythonWin IDE, how to write the script and how to run the test. The volume is really low so crank your speakers way up and make sure you have the proper Python and programs downloaded.
How To: Grout tile
Customize your kitchen or bathroom with your favorite tile. Learn how to grout tile to get professional-looking results. You will need several large buckets, several sponges, several rags, clean water, grout in powder form, a grout float, a triangular trowel, and a dust mask.
News: DigiLens Vision of Cheaper Smartglasses Becomes Clearer with Crystal Reference Design
If waveguide display maker DigiLens has its way, enterprise businesses and consumers will soon be able to purchase smartglasses for less than $500 — as long as they can supply their own computing and battery power.