How To: Create a zero budget sci-fi laser gun
Here's how to make a cool laser gun using some household junk and silver spray paint. It's a Sprite bottle, by the way. It's best if it's empty too. Really.
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How To: Percolate a paint gun
Kevin Tetz of Paintucation shows how to percolate a paint gun to properly clean it.
How To: Use the scarab gun in Halo 2
Kristin Holt from G4TV shows you how to find Halo 2's elusive and all-powerful Scarab Gun with this walkthrough
How To: Shut off your alarm clock with a light phaser
We'll base the project around a digital clock radio and a light gun for gaming; huge selections of both of these are available inexpensively second-hand, with many beautiful and well-designed examples. To enable our FPSI (First Person Shooter Interface), we'll outfit the gun with five tilt sensors, arranged at different angles on a small circuit board. A cable tethers the gun to the clock and carries your tilt and trigger signals to the clock's time and alarm control button contacts.
How To: Fix a ball chop or a barrel break on a paintball gun
Here is the difference between ball chop, and a barrel break. This will help you understand what your paintball gun is doing, and make it easier to fix
How To: Do a Krav Maga one handed defense against a gun attack
Jarret Waldman explains why Imi the founder of Krav Maga uses a single handed defense instead two in other systems for gun from the front attack.
How To: Install the violent series trigger in a paintball gun
Learn how to install the violent series trigger on a proto-rail paintball gun.
How To: Build a Lego bionicle snake and cordak gun turret
Learn how to build two custom Lego bionicle props. The first is a Bionicle snake and the second is a cordak gun turret. Both are made from various Lego bionicle pieces.
How To: Hide Your Nexus 7's Soft Keys to Maximize Usable Screen Space
I know all of you softModders love these little modifications, like enabling the hidden battery percentage on the Nexus 7 or getting the exclusive Google Launcher on your Nexus, so here's an easy one that lets you hide the soft-keys from your tablet, which will actually expand your screen to look a little bit longer.
How To: Use the Helghast StA-11 SMG in Killzone 2
Killzone 2 is the latest iteration of one of the Playstation 3's only reputable exclusive series. It's a great shooter, and has many guns that are well-balanced and each offer distinct advantages. If you want to master the game, you'd better know how to use each one properly. This video will teach you everything you need to know about the Helghast StA-11 sub-machine gun. This SMG is great for close-quarters combat with it's high rate-of-fire and small size.
How To: Build a really cool futuristic prop gun
If you're making films on your own, good on you. Do you ever find yourself without the money or means to get the props that you need? Every day most likely. This video is here to both inspire and provide practical aide. It describes the construction of a really cool sci-fi gun (dubbed the MKX300) that this filmmaker made for his webseries out of mostly old bottles. It was cheap and looks incredible, so watch this video and either make your own MKX300 or apply these lessons to the construction...
How To: Make soft focus wedding photo effects in Photoshop CS4
Want to grab some great shots at your friend or family member's wedding? Create a glowing, diffused, soft focus wedding photo effect through the power of Adobe Photoshop CS4. Add a whole lot of "mood" to an image by softening and increasing contrast, that also features a vignette around the focal point of your choosing. The beauty of this technique is that by using adjustment layers you can have full control over the final effect's strength and color. Create the perfect wedding photo and give...
How To: Create a silver winter makeup look inspired by Hayley Williams
Hayley Williams is a rock chic with a soft side, as evidenced by the constant contrast between her disarming red hair and her romantic, soft makeup. While the girl amps things up when she's on the red carpet, for the most part she prefers light, shimmery colors to emphasize her pale porcelain skin.
How To: Make a soft shell crab dish
In this video we learn how to make a soft shell crab dish. First, start making the sauce with white wine, honey, peppercorns, lemon juice, and heavy cream. Let this reduce and then start another skillet with chopped onions, red peppers, green peppers, and olive oil. Add in some chopped celery and then add these to some cooked cubed potatoes. Then, add in some mayonnaise along with some cooked bacon and pepper. Sprinkle in some salt and horseradish then mix all of this up and place in the frid...
How To: Soften polymer clay
In this tutorial, we learn how to soften polymer clay. If you have crumbly clay and you want it to be soft, then you can make it softer easily. Now, take the clay and break it up into small pieces. Then mush this together with some translucent clay that is softer. Work this together with a jar or put it through a pasta machine. When you do this, it should be pretty soft and the air pockets should be removed. Continue to work the clay until it is all one color and it is really soft, then you c...
How To: Create a seductively soft sexy hairstyle using an InStyler rotating hair iron
Take advantage of your straight hair and turn it into a seductively soft and sleek hairstyle that will drive the men crazy! With the InStyle rotating hair iron straightener, you could have this look in no time. If you don't have the InStyler, use something similar, just shoot for the same sleek and sexy hairstyle that Zhareena's showing you.
How To: Use Soft Body Tags in MAXON Cinema 4D R12
This clip presents a general introduction to the new Soft Body Tag feature in MAXON C4D R12. Whether you're new to MAXON's popular 3D modeling application or are just looking to get better acquainted with Cinema 4D and its various features and functions, you're sure to enjoy this free video software tutorial. For more information, including complete instructions, watch this 3D modeler's guide.
How To: Use the soft light layer mode in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we learn how to use the soft light layer mode in Photoshop with Yanik Chauvin. This will reduce gray in the picture. First, duplicate the layer and then click on the blending mode menu. Click on the soft light option, then your photo will adjust and have saturation in it. The flatness will be removed from the image and the gamma will be increased. If you find this too strong, you can go into the opacity slider and adjust this to what you think fits your picture. When finishe...
How To: Use a straightening iron to get soft sexy curls
In this tutorial, we learn how to use a straightening iron to get soft and sexy curls. First, start out by brushing your hair out so there are no knots in it. Next, take a section of your hair, Next, add in heat protector to the hair. After this, heat up your straightening iron and take a small section of our hair. Twist the hair up and then run the straightening iron through it. When it comes out, you will have a very soft curl. You can also place the iron onto the top of the section and pul...
How To: Rip audio from a YouTube video & remix it in Audacity
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to download and edit any You Tube video. Users will need to download the DVD Soft Video You Tube to MP3 Converter and Audacity software. Begin by opening the DVD Soft program. Then go to the You Tube website and find a video with the audio that you would like. Now copy the video's URL and paste it into the DVD Soft program. Click Download & Convert and wait for it to finish downloading. Now open the MP3 file in Audacity to edit it. This video will ben...
How To: Soft boil eggs perfectly
This video shows you how to easily soft boil eggs. The first thing you have to do is boil water in a pan or in a pot. Please note that the water should be at a rolling boil. Next, you have to take the egg with a spoon and gently place it in the pot. Leave the water with the egg boil for 2-3 minutes. A soft boiled egg should have a runny center with runny white. After 2-3 minutes pass, take the egg out of the pot with a spoon. That's it! Good Luck!
How To: Clean gold jewelry
Looking to polish up some old jewelry? Your skin, soap, and even the air can dull your gold jewelry. Bring the luster back with a few household items and these five steps.
How To: Build a paper blowgun
This video tutorial will show you how to build a paper gun that can shoot. The idea behind this is to build a paper gun that can shoot paper pieces and other items, with power from your mouth. This video should help you in the making of your paper gun, which is more like a blowgun.
How To: Clean chrome
If you like things shiny and bright, you're probably a fan of chromium, a metal used to plate other metals, commonly known as chrome. Watch this Howcast cleaning guide to learn how to clean chrome. Keep your chrome nice and shiney.
How To: Choose an umbrella or a softbox in the photo studio
Do you have a preference for using an umbrella or a softbox with studio strobes? This instructional photography video demonstrates the strengths of each. The umbrella can spread light over a wider area and creates a softer light. The soft box creates a soft light with a defined edge to it.
How To: Solder metal for model airplanes
To build a model airplanes, you're going to need to know how to solder. Any electronics specifically cannot be crimped, but have to be soft soldered. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to soft solder for model airplanes and even electronics.
How To: Create gun sounds in FL Studio 7
This three part tutorial teaches you the basics of using FL Studio 7 with the free version you can download. First you will learn the basics, then part two will explain how to add in some effects to make your song more... lively, and part three covers how to make Automation Clip patterns with volumes and pitches.
How To: Stitch the soft knot for silk ribbon embroidery
This tutorial video will show how to do the typical soft knot used in silk ribbon embroidery, or the preferred method of the quilter's knot. Most ribbon embroiderers do not use a knot and just pierce tails or come back with another needle and thread and secure the tails that way.
How To: Join two pieces of soft clay
Check out this video to learn a technique for attaching soft clay to soft clay. No scoring or slip is needed. By just applying firm pressure to get a good strong joint. The small clay coil is used to reinforce the joints, and the blending is to make sure both parts are joint securely. Finally give a little pull to the new piece of clay that was attached, to test how good the joints are. If it comes loose than you are not applying enough pressure in joining the two pieces together. Finally, if...
How To: Tie the Partridge & Orange Soft Hackle for fly fishing
Jeff Hines demonstrates tying the Partridge and Orange soft hackle fly for fly fishing.
How To: Use soft and hard light when shooting videos
In this video podcast episode, Izzy describes hard and soft light and how it affects shadows. He also demonstrates how to soften sunlight when shooting videos.
How To: Cut soft, fresh cheese
Slicing soft, fresh cheeses, like chevre, can become a sticky mess. The cheese either clings to the knife or crumbles into an unwieldy pile. To get perfect slices every time, head to the medicine cabinet and grab the dental floss. Wrap the floss (use unwaxed and unflavored) around your fingers and then use to slice through the cheese. Floss works for slicing cheesecake, too.
How To: Make a Super Cheap Soft Box for Pro-Looking 'Soft' Light in Your Photos
Remember the young Parker who taught us how to make fun things like the ghost trap from Ghostbusters and the cheap severed leg effect? Well, he's definitely grown since then, and in his latest video he takes a more practical approach to DIY with a cheap and easy soft box for you home photography studio.
News: 4 Touched-by-the-Lord Potato Gun Video Tutorials
All of these four videos are excellent. You will notice that while all the videos and articles have slightly different design dimensions, they are fundamentally very similar. I urge you to view and read everything I am serving up. Then, my final words of advice are simply....choose between a barbeque switch and a taser gun. (Hint: there is a right choice, and there is a wrong choice.)
How To: Build a Deadly (But Practical) Minecraft Machine Gun
Have you ever felt like you wanted to totally annihilate someone in Minecraft with a machine gun? Yeah, me, too. Thankfully, you can!
How To: Unlock the Mr. Toots easter egg in Red Faction: Armageddon on the Xbox 360
The Achievement Hunter demonstrates what steps to take to unlock the unusual weapon 'Mr. Toots' in the Xbox 360 game Red Faction: Armageddon. 'Mr. Toots' is a unicorn that the protagonist is able to carry and use as a gun.
How To: Fix your Xbox 360 using a heat gun
Some repairs on an Xbox can be repaired with a heat gun. Turn your Xbox off first. Take it apart. Remove all of the bolts and screws. Set them aside. You will need to remember where everything goes to reassemble it. Remove all of the heat sinks. Clean off all of the paste. You will only be heating the GPU. Do not use it on the CPU. You'll need Arctic clean and a cotton swab to remove all of the paste. When it is clean, turn on your heat gun. Set it for 1000 degrees. You can test it by seeing ...
How To: Get soft kissable lips via two homemade methods
Need to get kissably soft lips for an upcoming date where some lip locking action is expected, or just want your puckers to look perfect under lipstick? Then watch this two-part tutorial for two ways to exfoliate and moisturize lips.
How To: Clean a Tippmann 98 Custom paintball gun
This video shows how to clean a Tippmann 98 Custom paintball gun. Materials needed are Pliers, gun lubricant, paper towels, Tippmann 98 Custom and Appropriate sized Allen Wrenches.Step 1. Unscrew barrel, take off hopper connector and tae off bolt cap.Step 2. Next use the Allen wrench to take off Co2 connector and handle grip.Step 3. Then take out the 6 screws that hold the 2 sides of the gun together.Step 4. Take out the front and back bolt.Step 5. Spray lubricant on the places and on both O-...
How To: Make a trigger-operated paper gun
This is an instructive guide to making a trigger operated paper gun. You will need an A4 sheet of paper. Start by rolling the sheet of paper horizontally (breadthways) and as tightly as possible, . Once the roll is completed, attach 3 lengths of sticky tape at each end and the middle, so it doesn't unravel. Then proceed to wrap another sheet of A4 paper around your existing roll, making sure that is as tight as can be so it is strong and sturdy. Again, attach sticky tape at each end and the m...