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How To: Make cheap lighting & barn doors

Check out this instructional lighting video that explains how to make cheap barn doors for your lights. For this project, you will need a total of 4 hinges, 12 nuts and bults, a screwdriver, cardboard, scissors, and a lighting fixture. This is a simple guerrilla filmmaking tutorial on how to design your own barn doors. A great addition to any low-budget filmmaker's lighting kit.

How To: Make a fast breakfast wrap

Make a five minute breakfast. This instructional cooking video demonstrates how to make a fast and healthy breakfast burrito and a breakfast smoothie. It's also a good idea to keep Eggology egg whites in the refrigerator for a microwaveable, low-fat omelet.

How To: Make a Peach French toast bake

Make this dish in advance and pop it right into the oven on Sunday morning. Use whole grain bread, eggs, low-fat milk, vanilla, frozen peaches, brown sugar, and cinnamon. There is nothing better than a peach French toast bake to supplement a healthy breakfast.

How To: Glitch or circuit bend a Nintendo gaming console

By circuit bending low voltage electronic devices, you can transform your old unused toys into musical devices or to create visual manipulations. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to bend an old classic Nintendo. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to circuit bend the NES in such a way that you'll be able to produce cool distortions while in gameplay. Remember to exercise caution when circuit bending.

How To: Make thermal curtains

This video is an instructional tutorial on how to make thermal curtains. Thermal curtains are a low cost method of reducing your heating bill by increasing the R value of your windows with an aesthetic, insulative curtain. Watch and learn how easy it is to keep the cold out and the warmth in with homemade thermal curtains.

How To: Barbecue spare ribs in two hours

Low and slow is not the way to go if you're real hungry and looking for a quick way to grill up some moist and tender barbecue pork ribs. Try this easy to grill pork ribs recipe as demonstrated by one of the BBQ Pit Boys and in as little as 2 hours you'll be eatin' mighty fine! All you have to do is watch this how to video and follow the directions.

How To: Create an easy tape dispenser

Low tack tape or painter's tape is essential when doing a paint job in your home. In this how to video, home improvement expert Danny Lipford teaches you a great way to keep your tape on hand. This is a cheap and more helpful alternative to the store bought tape dispensers. All you need is some coated wire and you can make this tape dispenser.

How To: Use a composting toilet

The regular toilet is a huge waste of water, and those low flow toilets don't always get rid of your "business." The Keep it Green girls discover an eco-friendly way to discard human waste and create compost for your garden. Learn how to turn your waste into compost with the composting toilet.

How To: Cook a southern style black eyed pea Hopping John

Hoppin John - What the heck is Hoppin John? Well, its some awesome Cajun cooking, and also a low country recipe popular in South Carolina. Watch this how to video to learn how to make Hoppin John, a black eyed pea recipe. All you need for this Cajun recipe is: black eyed peas, canola oil, diced onions, bells peppers, garlic, celery chicken stock, tomatoes, jalapeno, bay leaves, ground thyme, ground cumin, Cajun Creole seasoning and pork sausage.

How To: Perform poi hip reels

This is a quick how-to video to help some people who are having trouble with the wrist action for low reels in poi. Getting this rolling action with the wrists will make your reels easier and will make learning advanced poi simpler. This is not a flashy video, but should still help some of you improve your poi.

How To: Snell a fishing hook

Captain Jay Howell shows you a good way to make a low-profile fishing knot to attach a hook to a line. This knot is one you've seen on any factory-snelled hook: a Snell Knot. Now, you can snell your own! It's an invaluable knot to learn and a great knot to use for just about any application.

How To: Solder a resistor to an LED

A basic instruction for electronic enthusiasts. I use an RGB LED and a 510 ohm resistor as I may change from 6 to 9 volts later, but with my LEDs i could go as low as 330 ohms. I sacrifice some brightness for the sake of longer life. To choose your resistor, the value in ohms = voltage of your batteries or power supply / (as in divided by) the amperage that your LED needs to run.

How To: Count cards in Blackjack easily

So how does a card counter keep track of the cards in blackjack? While there are many different systems and variations, counting cards is usually as simple as adding and subtracting the number 1. Subtract one when a high card is dealt and add one when a low card is dealt. The greater the count, the more high cards in the shoe, and the more high cards in the deck, the greater the counting edge for the player.

How To: Make whisked scrambled eggs

Scrambled eggs are a delightful addition to a breakfast or brunch menu. Watch how to properly whisk and cook eggs. You will need eggs, low-fat milk and butter. You can add a lot of your own touches to this basic recipe. Add sausage, cheese, or vegetables for a variety of scrambled egg breakfasts.

How To: Make low calorie spicy orange chicken

This is a healthier twist on the classic “Orange Chicken.” The main problem with the Chinese take-out version is that the pieces of chicken are first dipped in a batter, fried in oil, then wok fried again in the spicy, sweet orange glaze. While very delicious if done right, it is incredible high in calories. So, be warned, my version uses no oil and should not be compared to the style you many be used to.

How To: Make easy cheesy potatoes

You can use any cheese in this dish, of course, but a nice sharp cheddar is the way to go. Chef John used a beautiful hunk of English Farmhouse Cheddar and it was great. Especially with the apple and shallot reduction that went over the pork loin he served with these potatoes and used low fat 1% milk for this dish.

How To: Make a chicken salad

Franklin Chef Becker shows you how to prepare a great chicken salad with off the shelf products. To make this salad, wash your lettuce, then add lemon juice, vinegar and olive oil. Mix peppers, cucumbers, scallions, salad, and chicken to complete this low carbohydrate dish for health watchers. Don't ingest any e-coli.

How To: Make a cheese omelet with meat or veggies

Serve up a delicious cheese omelet for breakfast. This simple recipe can be dressed up with meats or vegetables. You will need eggs, low-fat milk, butter, your favorite grated cheese. You can add a lot of your own touches to this basic cheese omelet recipe. Add your favorite meats or vegetables to make a variety of omelets.

How To: Bake cranberry walnut muffins

This recipe has a lot of ingredients but it sounds good. You will need white and whole wheat flour, sugar, baking powder, canola oil, salt, low fat milk, orange zest, vanilla, egg, cranberries and walnuts. Even though there are a lot of ingredients these muffins are quick and easy.