Radar has made much of modern life possible, and if you're into building your own electronics building one is a fun and useful project. Watch this video for instructions on how to build your own simple radar out of cheap spare parts from a satellite dish or a toy radar gun.
A deck is the perfect place for any kind of get together. You can use it for a party, family event, or just to hang out and relax. Decks can help add a certain style to any backyard and help raise the price of the home.
With the proper planning and education constructing your own fence can be a breeze. This video tutorial offers an in depth look at how to build a fence for your own home. Learn the basics of building a fence with the help of The Home Depot.
Are you an aspiring mechanic? How about a hands-on person with a couple free days and a spirit of ingenuity? In this three-part video tutorial, learn from Evans Tuning how to build a B-series Honda engine. Get step by step instructions on how to build this engine from scratch, from start to finish.
Crochet a cool house-tent for your little homeless friends. This instructional video will walk you through a super simple pet project. Whether you're out to craft dwellings for a dog, cat, pig, or free-range snake, this tutorial demonstrates how to build and combine all the necessary components, including the frames, walls, and personalized decorations. The results are quite cozy.
K'NEX is one of the most popular construction toys on the market, right next to Lincoln Logs and LEGOs, but what makes K'NEX stand out is the fact that children can build mechanically derived toys. Instead of blocks or little logs, kids use interconnecting plastic rods and connectors, which give them tons of contraptions to build and play with. Today, K NEX has even more possibilities with wheels, pulleys, panels and flexi-rods to make amusement park roller coasters, airplanes, animals, bikes...
Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University demonstrates how to build a jet band using Jeff Heaton's jet pack code. What is a jet band? Well, it's like a jet pack but smaller and allows you to go higher than 200 meters when flying in Second Life. Part one shows you how to create the code for the jet band. In part 2, the code is modified to remove the altitude reading below 70 meters.
The final version of Build a Bulb, an Edison creation.
Build a tepee diorama. Watch Papa Tom build a Native American Indian tepee using the Scene-A-Rama Building and Structures Kit. He'll then show you how to place it on a realistic wooden diorama.
Build a log home diorama. Papa Tom shows viewers how to build a log cabin home for a diorama using the Building and Structures Kit. Simple and easy to make a realistic miniature log cabin.
A step-by-step guide to building a Google Gadget.
Social engineering makes headlines because human behavior is often the weakest link of even well-defended targets. Automated social engineering tools can help reclusive hackers touch these techniques, but the study of how to hack human interactions in person is often ignored. Today, we will examine how to use subtle, hard to detect persuasion techniques to compromise a human target.
Many people deal with motion sickness on a daily basis, and if you're reading this, chances are you're one of them. Kinetosis can make your stomach roll, your entire body sweat, and make you feel fatigued and dizzy at even the slightest movement, whether it's related to carsickness, seasickness, or airsickness. And let's not forget the worst part—vomiting.
Checking the weather ranks among the most mundane but essential tasks you can do on your smartphone. Thankfully, both the iOS App Store and Google Play are loaded with weather apps that add some much needed spice to this daily routine, giving you less of a reason to be caught unaware.
There may be no kitchen appliance as controversial as the garlic press. Professional kitchens and many avid cooks despise it, while others staunchly defend it.
One shrinks their nose when the name of Durian fruit is brought up but are you aware of all the health benefits it can provide? The Durian fruit on its own can help control Blood pressure, blood sugar, Anaemia and depression. Not only this, the fruit has the miraculous qualities that can prevent cardiovascular diseases, better the digestive system, better the Libido and provide instant energy. For all the skin conscious people, here's news for you! The fruit can delay ageing process and make ...
Our workdays are typically filled with one thought: get as much completed as possible. Whether you face an inbox filled with tasks or just a project or two, both our bosses and our inner workhorses encourage us to knock out as many tasks as we can each day. But is being super-productive the best course of action for our minds and our employers?
Prying into people's lives without them putting up their guard can be difficult, unless you can convince them that you already know them very well. Most people don't have many friends they can be honest with, and this can be exploited. Once they're convinced you already know their secrets, they'll start to fill you in on the little details.
Here's a great video that shows how make make a hand drill fire from scratch using Stone Age tools...
There are plenty of times when very aggressive poker players will make life difficult for you because they're always looking to put max pressure on their opponents to try and get them to fold out their medium strength hands. Knowing how to play against loose aggressive opponents is an important part of beating the games you play, especially the more aggressive online 6-max games. It’s important to know some fundamental strategies outlined in the video below. The common strategy used for each ...
When your clutch pedal is dropping down and not coming up again, the cause is most probable one of the cylinders in the hydraulic clutch system. The video will give you a step-by-step tutorial on how to replace both, the master and the slave cylinder. In addition, it is a good idea to also replace the pressure hose in-between the cylinders.
Opening a brand new carton of juice can be disastrous if you're not careful. The air pressure on the inside of the carton is waiting to exit, but does so in a vigorous force when opening a carton for the first time.
Need a good way to hold your iPhone up? There are a ton of smartphone stands out on the market, but they can be pricey or just downright ugly—and potentially phone damaging. But like the Une Bobine above, they do have their perks, like movability at almost any angle. But to alleviate pressure off of the connection port, Sharon Vaknin from CNET developed her own flexible iPhone stand—from an old desk lamp and suction cup.
How to drill a hole in a ceramic wall tile. How to tile.Wall tiling. Bathroom wall tiling.
Zynga's newest game is CityVille, where you build your own city from the ground up! This video shows you a few good strategies and tips that you can employ to build up your city without having to rely so much on friends who also play.
So you've managed to build an awesome tower in Minecraft, but you're tired of walking up and down the stairs to get in and out. The solution is to build a water elevator! All you need now is a boat!
When starting out in Minecraft, the first thing you focus on is creating a shelter to seal yourself into to make it through the first night without getting eaten by a zombie or shot to death by a skeleton. But if you want something a little more conventional, try building a house to start in instead of a hole in a hillside! In this video you will get a quick walkthrough of building the house with a working door and a roof.
If you've always wanted to build your own Classical Acoustic guitar, this video series can get you started! You will watch he starts with some simple blocks of wood and an idea and crafts a great classical guitar! He will also show you his mistakes along the way and his own fixes, so that way if you make the same mistake, you will have an answer right there!
So, you know how to stop a Zerg baneling bust, but what's the build order for one? This video will show you the secret behind the Zerg baneling bust in StareCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. Learn how to pull off this build order. There are a few renditions of how to pull this off, but this is one good example - and it's in an actual game.
In this 2 part how-to video, Simon Leach, who normally shows you how to make pottery, instead shows you something else. In this tutorial, Leach shows you how to make and build a small propane downdraft kiln. Follow along with Simon Leach, and you too could be building your own kiln in your backyard.
Give a bird a home with help from this handyman tutorial! Learn step-by-step how to build a professional looking Bluebird nesting box bird house. To build this nesting box you will need the following tools & materials: rough cedar or pine, a tape measure, pencil, speed square, hand saw, compound miter saw (if possible), exterior wood glue, drill bits, screw gun or drill, paddle bit, coarse thread drywall screws, deck screws, galanized finished nails, and a hammer.
This is a video tutorial describing how to build an outdoor couch for your porch. First measure out where you want to put your outdoor couch onto your porch. Then start building the first post. You should use concrete block to build this post. Then build out from the post the back wall of the couch with more concrete blocks. Then build the other post. Then stack the second course onto the first course. Then add the third course to the top of the second course. If you want then you can add a f...
If your yard is full of pests in the summertime that you can't get rid of, consider building a bat box. Bats are great animals - they eat any unwanted insects and only come out at night so they don't bother anyone.
MAKE and Kipkay brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. Make Magazine celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.
2 roommates play a prank on another roommate that is away, they build a wall over the door to his room. This is a long and arduous process that involves lots of sheet rock, spackle and tools. You essentially need to cover his doorway building a false wall that blends in with the rest of the wall. This makes it look as though the wall was never there.
This video tutorial from IndyMogul shows you how to build a cheap and portable green screen.
In this video tutorial, you'll see how you can build a homemade steadycam camera stabilizer for under fifty bucks. This is more specifically how to build the JayCam MkII Merlin-type camera stabilizer from Jay Shaffer. He demonstrates how to use inexpensive parts to make a versatile stabilizer for camcorders like the Canon HV30. This is a great steadycam addition for anyone in need of DIY cinematography tricks, because real steadycams can be costly.
Even if you don't have kids, this project is so useful that you're going to want to build a folding chair yourself. Just because we're building a kids project doesn't mean it has to be just for kids!
Put together a metal swing set for under $20. Part 1 of 2 - How to Build a tripod tepee swing set.
This video outlines the process of building your own floating island inside of Terraria, the hottest new indie game on the market. Just build a platform using stone blocks and then start building the island with dirt blocks. Then pimp it out with some grass seeds (or jungle grass seeds or corrupt seeds).
