How To: Build a USB popcorn maker
Watching a movie on your laptop again? Well, make some popcorn to go with that with this USB popcorn maker. With a little electronics know-how, you can easily get popping in no time!
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How To: Vote with Connecticut's optical scan voting Machines
Today is election day, or maybe not, but you're going to have to learn how to vote sooner or later anyway.
How To: Eat with chopsticks correctly
Learn how to use chopsticks properly! Impress all you friends the next time you go to an Asian restaurant. The simplest trick to using chopsticks like a pro is to not have your chopstick ends crossing.
How To: Build a giant floor mat Nintendo controller
Remember the good old days before “aerobic gaming,” when you could just sit on your butt and wiggle your thumbs?
How To: Win at a heads or tails coin toss every time
Go ahead and take that bet. This how to video shows you how to win at a heads or tails coin toss every time.
How To: Shove a straw through the bottom of chin
Want to gross out your friends with a magic trick that makes it look like you pierced your chin with a drinking straw? Well, here goes. This is a really simple prop trick. You need a pre cut straw.
How To: Create bump maps from color maps in 3ds Max 8
This 3ds Max video tutorial goes over how to create bump maps and how to quickly create one using your existing color map as a starting point in Autodesk's 3D Studio Max digital graphic modeling software in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop. It will also cover how to breakup your bump map with high frequency noise at the shader level for those closeup shots.
How To: Create specular maps from bump maps in 3ds Max 8
This 3ds Max video tutorial goes over the concept of specular maps and how to paint one using an existing bump map as reference in Autodesk's 3D Studio Max digital graphic modeling software. You'll work in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop, so if you don't have one or the other programs, why even bother building digital 3D characters?
How To: Refine organic models with EditPoly in 3ds Max 8
This 3ds Max video tutorial will go over several ways to refine and add detail to your 3D model, like using EditPoly. More specifically, you will be adding polygons for a nose, then refine them until we achieve our desired shape in Autodesk's 3D Studio Max digital 3D modeling software.
How To: Use selection masks in Maya 8.5
Something that's particularly useful in Autodesk Maya 8.5 is masking. Check out this video tutorial on masking for your animation. There's going to be all kinds of nasty little things in your character development, like bones, curves, geometry, and a lot more. This video will help you in those 3D animation situations in Maya with masking techniques, like lattice points.
How To: Play Ricochet Robots
Do you like chess? Well, you just might like this board game: Ricochet Robots. What is that, you ask. Good question, very good question.
How To: Do the compressor arm lock and break
Here is one way to get the hands free when someone is grabbing around your waist as you go for the gangsta lean position. This is a very helpful and effective martial arts technique.
How To: Assemble shocks on your radio controlled vehicle
This video will show you how to build shocks for your RC vehicle. It's pretty simple, if you know anything about shocks for radio controlled vehicles. If you don't, well, then maybe you should just go buy an RC instead of making one.
How To: Make lye solution for soap safely
Lye can cause chemical burns and the fear of getting burned prevents arts enthusiasts from making homemade soap. Watch this video to learn how to safely make lye solution so you can go ahead and unleash the creative child in you.
How To: Do a chair massage for arms and hands
The hands are one of the more overworked parts of the body. Watch this video to learn massage techniques that can be used to relieve aches, pains and knots in these regions while the client is relaxing on a chair. A word of advice though, use lotion instead of oil because most clients go back to work after a massage and you do not want to leave their hands greasy.
How To: Solve a Rubik's Cube with one hand
This does not teach you how to solve a Rubik's Cube, only how to twist the cube with one hand. Which means you're going to need one loose Cube to do this. You should already know how to solve the 3x3, otherwise you should stick to two hands.
How To: Add a resonant charging choke to a hydrogen fuel cell
Here are some concepts that Stanley Meyers had related to his patents regarding the Resonant Charging Choke, which is basically Telsa's BiFiler Coil Design, which basically is how to connect the WFC to the bifilar coil for maximum efficiency and if you have higher resistance and impedance than the WFC you can inhibit amp flow and allow voltage to go to the maximum.
How To: Talk to your teen son
Many teenage boys have a unique way of communicating, so resorting to a confined one-on-one discussion may not be the best way to go. Learn the most effective ways to talk to teenage sons.
How To: Obtain free and legal music for your amateur filming
Several great YouTubers have had their accounts suspended for illegally using copyrighted music from those easily agitated big record labels. This episode of Jim Shorts covers places you can go to find awesome music for your videos that won't end your YouTube career.
How To: Put on your Stormtrooper costume
Tom goes over his method for putting on his Stormtrooper costume.
How To: Perform a mountain biking pre-ride inspection
Ellsworth's Ron Sawiki explains what to do before you go on a mountain bike ride, including lubing your chain and checking pressure.
How To: Go downhill on a mountain bike
Pua Sawicki shares her mountain biking tips for a technical descent.
How to Beat Halo: Combat Evolved level Keyes
This is a video tutorial on the original Halo Combat Evolved level Keyes. It shows you how to beat it and where to go.
How To: Use the tangent line in pool
Learn what the tangent line is and how to use it to improve your pool game by sending the object ball where you need it to go.
How To: Unlock Han Solo in Lego Indiana Jones
This video explains how to unlock the ability to buy Han Solo. You must find 5 characters in order to unlock him.To find them, they are in these levels:
How To: Unlock Ganondorf in Super Smash Bros Brawl
To unlock Ganondorf you must go to classic mode, choose Link or Zelda/Sheik, as many lives and continues and must be hard level or higher. Now beat the Master Hand, and you'll unlock Ganondorf.
How To: Make an RC plane
In just under 4 hours, leftover parts were used to make a neat RC airplane called "The Junkyard Dog". Using mostly COX airplane parts from models gone by the wayside, you can make one with no plans or a kit.
How To: Get your kids to go to the dentist
Do you struggle taking your child to the dentist? Well, taking your children to the dentist doesn't have to be like pulling teeth. Watch this video to learn the best ways to keep your child happy during this doctor visit.
How To: Tone your back with speed single cable reverse flys
Learn how to do speed single cable reverse flys. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits
How To: Pick a Master Lock #175 with a paper clip
Even though I am not the best locksmith in the world, the four-digit #175 model Master Lock is so easy to pick that all the hardened steel in the world isn't going to protect your belongings.
How To: Make pickled ginger
If you make your own sushi, then you should watch this video. Ginger is a necessary side dish for sushi, and in this video you learn how easy it is to make pickled ginger. Go and start pickling!
How To: Dance the "drop-catch move" in salsa
Learn how to turn with the drop-catch move with this salsa tutorial. You are going to use a right turn for this move as well as a cross body lead.
How To: Drive a stick shift car and start it on a hill
This tutorial explains how to drive a stick shift (manual) car and also goes over how to start the car and start driving on an uphill.
How To: Paint in Zbrush
In this Zbrush tutorial Jason goes over everything you need to know about painting textures and more.
How To: Solve a Siamese Rubik's Cube
Alright, you've made a Siamese Rubik's Cube, now what are you going to do? Solve it? Yeah, why not? See how to do it.
How To: Reverse magnet rotation with a Tesla CD turbine
Balls go flying as MrfixitRick attempts to show how certain conditions cause a magnetic ball to reverse its direction, mysteriously revolving backwards to the rotating magnets of the CD Turbine.
How To: Use a planisphere and binoculars for stargazing
This video gives you some advice for beginning your hobby in amateur astronomy and how to use a planisphere and a pair of binoculars in this Amateur Astronomy for Beginners - Planisphere and Binoculars.
How To: Make a Tequila Sunbreeze with Playmate Sara Jean
Sara Jean Underwood,Playboy Playmate of the Year 2007, teaches us what goes into the delicious exotic drink Tequila Seabreeze.
How To: Make a cantenna, an antenna made from a can
Dr. Kiki makes a homemade cantenna, an antenna made out of a can, duh! Moujan reports back from the ultimate DIY event, Maker Faire 2008, and Heather goes beekeeping in the Fringe - all on PopSiren.
How To: Build your own microscope
Dr. Kiki explores the inner workings of microscopes while our Magic Creator, Moujan Z, remixes empty Altoid cans into a cool and useful container, Sarah makes you a a Muxtape, and Heather goes fencing - all on PopSiren!