Household Hacker brings you fun hack how to projects in a variety of areas: electronic hacks, computer hacks, pranks, etc. Search Household Hacker on WonderHowTo for more videos by this creator. In this video, learn how to cheat with a blank piece of paper.
Here's a helpful house and apartment video tip to help you succeed in your home. Watch this tutorial to learn how to change your household lightbulbs.
Because life's just not fun unless someone is getting pranked. Whether you need to pull these pranks out for a party or to get back at your younger brother for stealing that last piece of fried chicken, you'll learn a whopping list of 8 different pranks in this video.
This video teaches you how to make homemade playdough through a few easy steps. Each ingredient is a common household product.
This short video tutorial will outline the process of making acoustic wall panels using a simple wooden frame and rockwool insulation. These DIY broadband acoustic panels, or bass traps for treating music studio rooms, performance rooms or home theater rooms, will save you tons of money.
Check out this video to learn from Owen Bailey how to save money and energy by installing a water heater insulation wrap.
This video shows how to spray papercrete directly on to a metal 20' shipping container for insulation and aesthetic purposes.
The Knights of Gray... um... The Pirate Guild? Bored of being indoors? Well, see what PVC pipe, duct tape, and foam insulation, otherwise known as a boffer weapon, can do for you.
So, you're into LARPing? Need a new foam boffer? The Knights of Gray show you in this two-part video tutorial, how to make a simple and basic boffer sword.
This video will show you how to insulate an exterior door or window frame using Great Stuff expanding foam insulation. Easy to use, works great for sealing out the elements.
Parrot Trainer Chet Wombach shows how to use 'positive imprinting' to get rid of negative feelings towards objects, people, or things. Exotic birds may not immediately adapt to a domestic situation and may find household life unnecessarily threatening or stressful. Watch this video training tutorial and learn how to use the technique of positive imprinting to better acclimate a pet parrot, cockatiel, Macaw, or any exotic bird into the household environment and to be a happier, healthier, and ...
Household cleaning products are some of the most toxic things in your house. If you want to get them out and replace them with all-natural alternatives, watch this video to learn how to make alternative cleaning products yourself out of common household ingredients.
Poisoning can happen to both children and adults, and is one of the most preventable forms of illness that exists. Poisoning can sneak up on your in various ways including household products, expired medications, foods and even alcohol. So, take the tips in this clip from Dr. Savant and avoid this unnecessary illness in your household.
Few household products can turn ordinary milk into cool solid balls. Check out this instructional science video to learn how to turn milk into solid balls using average household products. This is a great experiment to make with your kids. Just don't let them eat the balls.
Bed sheets can be a good solution for some household dilemmas. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to use bed sheets as a bed skirt, a Duvet cover, a sling or as a furniture cover.
There are a lot of great pranks that are NOT appropriate for children to perform. Not only are they in the wrong environment, but their limited emotional development hamstrings their ability to handle serious pranks properly. This video will show you three pranks that are appropriate for all ages and use common household materials. The include the Ceiling Bowl Trick, the rubber-band-sink-sprayer, and the classic egg-in-the-doorframe prank.
Household Hacker demonstrates how to hack flash games. To get started, you need:
About a quarter of a million homes sustain damage from broken pipes every winter. Here's how to avoid a similar fate. Watch this video to learn how to prevent pipes from freezing.
To make roman columns, ideal to create space between door and living room. Materials required :
This video tutorial belongs to the Autos, Motorcycles & Planes category which is going to show you how to replace a power lock on a Ford Excursion. This activity is neither easy nor cheap. But, you will save a lot of money if you do it yourself. Before starting you got to remove the side paneling, speakers, outside door handle and insulation. Then you remove the door lock system. Remove the cable connectors and replace the solenoid unit. Now you can check that the power lock is working and th...
Okay, you're ready to go out and kick some serious ass with you boffer? But wait... you don't even know what a boffer is?
You've manage to get your hands on some ruthenium, and now you want to destroy the hard silvery-white metal of the transition series. Well, you're going to try all kinds of ways to dissolve this odd metal, but the only successful way to dissolve ruthenium is with a common household cleaner… bleach.
People used to bring poison into their homes willy-nilly, but now that we realize how bad most household pest-killers and other chemicals are natural ways are becoming more popular. This video will show you how to kill bugs in your home without resorting to poison that could hurt your children or pets.
Just like windows and doors, using the proper insulation or seals can help prevent valuable cold or warm air from leaving your home. The same holds true for oven doors. If you have a worn or broken seal, your oven may not warm up like it should and you can be wasting energy.
In this tutorial, we learn how to drywall your attic & loft with Fermacell. First, you need to consider the nature of your build and how much you will need to drywall. It is recommended that you install a film to ensure air tightness. You can place this down with a staple gun and tape it down as well. Large holes should be properly sealed as well, to enforce building regulations. Once you do this, you can add the boards on top of what has already been installed. Insulation will be now place o...
If you look around your home, there are numerous areas that can be worked on to help you save money and energy. From your tv, to your laptop, to even your sink, it's all around you. You can even find it in your basement. Those water pipes that are exposed underground, are perfect areas of where you can easily save money.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to use googly eyes to liven up household items. This video provides 3 crafts that viewers can make with the googly eyes. The first craft is a homemade snake with googly eyes. The snake is made from a draft blocker that is stuffed with rive. The second craft is to apply two googly eyes on your footwear. The third craft is glue the googly eye around the frame of a pair of glasses. This video will benefit those viewers who enjoy making arts and crafts, a...
This video tutorial explains how to strip insulated wire the right way. You'll learn how to adjust your wire strippers to make the process easier. Some people don't even use wire strippers, they use a knife or maybe even their teeth, but this causes nicks in the copper. To get the insulation off with ease and without gouges in the copper wire, use the proper sized wire strippers and adjust them right to fit the gauge of your wire. It's as simple as that. You don't need to go to vocational sch...
A perfect project for the budding roboticist in you! This video shows you how to make a small robot gripper using basic household items. Press the button and make the robot's come together! You will need: a small blow torch or butane lighter, a glue gun, a dremel or rotary tool (along with several different bits), the free cutting pattern, a permanent marker, a micro servo, some small nails or pins, a small piece of Plexiglass and a paperclip. If you don't have access to a dremel, you can fak...
Do you find that ordinary Nerf guns lack power, DIY flair, and intimidating looks? This video can take care of that. It provides instructions for making a sort of Nerf crossbow out of common household materials. It shoots like the dickens, and looks like it could kill a vampire. Very cool.
It's time to teach your kids about animals! To get your little one thinking like an animal, why not help them look like one? In this tutorial, featuring John Lithgow, learn how to turn common household items like paper plates and paints to create fun, realistic looking animal masks with your kids! You will also learn how to make special doggy treats and bird feeders so that you can really get on all fours with your animal buddies! Have fun!
This video illustrate us how to make a hovercraft with common household items. To build one, first of all, collect all of the items required for making it. You need a CD, bottle cap, balloon and super glue. Then start by applying glue to the lower end of the cap and sticking it to the center of the CD and let it dry. After it has dried, blow up the balloon and secure it up on the bottle cap tightly. Now open the bottle cap and let the balloon deflate.
Shatter glass with your mind!… Um, no… with speakers! This little video shows you how to shatter wine glasses with your own speakers. Yep, those normal, everyday home speakers that you have can break a wine glass just like a jackhammer.
Hey guys. Here's a guide to making the best green screen studio without paying too much cash! Not cheap like our first one, Today we're balancing price AND quality. Can't use green poster board forever.
Here's a collection of 5 of the best household pranks you can pull off on friends and family members! some are very easy and some you'll have to go out and purchase a couple of items but no matter who you are there is a prank in here for you. try it out!
The following are 5 very simple pranks that you can do at home on friends and family. Only a few household time are needed which would include, magnets, eggs, pantyhose stockings, dustpan, cups and a party popper. Just watch the video tutorial to get a better idea of how you can turn those items mentioned above into a hilarious pranks and booby traps.
The following are 5 simple household pranks you can pull off on friends and family members. All materials needed are common household items such as baking soda, rice, cups, among other things.
With April 1st fast approaching, you'll need to start thinking about what kind of pranks you're going to pull off and on who. Well, here are 5 silly household pranks you may consider for April Fool's Day.
If you're the "FUNNY ONE" in your home then why not live up to it by pulling off these 3 simple practical jokes on family members!
You can easily make an inexpensive silicone mold in your kitchen for cheap! This is a great project to do with your kids, or just for fun! You can also use this method to easily make theatrical props and prosthetics.
