HOW TO - Give your low-end Canon digital camera RAW support
Nathan @ Linux.com has a great how-to on making a cheap Cannon camera better with a firmware mod.
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Archive for DIY
DIY LEGO ice cube trays
First things first: Making your own Lego ice cube trays is emphatically not cheaper than buying them straight out from from Lego. It is probably more fun, and since I wanted to learn mold-making, it gave me an excuse to buy a few materials and take a stab at it. Details after the jump.
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How To Make The Coolest, Cheapest And Most Practical CD Case
After you watch this video you will be able to take one single piece of paper and transformer it into a CD case. You’ll be happy to learn this one. Video after the link.
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HOW TO: Take better photos with a $10 light tent
Light boxes are an effective way to take gorgeous photos of small objects. Using a cardboard box and some tissue paper, you can assemble a decent one with only a few minutes of effort. There’s really no reason not to make one!
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DIY Photo Ornaments in 15 Minutes or Less
Eggnog, gingerbread houses, Santa Clause, Sinterklaas (for our Dutch friends), “Christmas Man” (any Germans in the house?), holiday cards, endless holiday shopping, and lots and lots of holiday cheer.
[Via Photojojo]
Poor Man’s DIY Flat Panel TV
So maybe you can’t afford that spankin’ new HDTV that was recently announced or perhaps you’ve already blown your entire life savings on a massive DLP set. Well, here’s the next best thing. Just cut a hole in your wall and lodge your DLP/CRT right in. It’s not the route we’d take, but if you’re low on cash and have a sledgehammer handy, it’s definitely the cheapest.
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DIY Halloween - amazing costumes, scary tech, pumpkins and gross food - officially awesome
There’s still plenty of time to enter the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contest (details/enter here) but here’s a quick look at just *some* of DIY, hacked, modded, geeked out Halloween fun Makers around have scared up! There are about 500 and counting, they’re not just pictures either, many are complete how-tos! … It’s frighteningly awesome!
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Seven ways to light a fire without a match
Field & Stream round up 7 ways to start a fire without a match… starting with the ole’ rub sticks… - “Friction-Based Fire Making - Rubbing two sticks together is likely the oldest of all -fire-starting techniques, and also the most difficult. Besides proper technique, you have to choose the right wood for the fireboard and spindle. Sets made from dry softwoods, including aspen, willow, cottonwood, and juniper, are preferred, although a spindle made from a slightly harder wood, combined with a softer fireboard, can also work. The friction of the spindle against an indentation in the fireboard grinds particles from both surfaces, which must heat to 800 degrees?F before a glowing coal forms. This must then be transferred to tinder and -gently blown to life.” Thanks MattR!
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15 minute self-propelled hovercraft
Here’s another simple DIY hovercraft you can make in about 15 minutes from a foam meat tray, battery, motor, propellor and some glue…
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$.05 Toy Hovercraft / Helicopter
Here’s a super-simple flying-thing project suitable for kids from the Howtoons group on Instructables, Hoopajoo writes… - “This instructable will show you how to make a simple toy hovercraft for small children. It is suitable for daycare projects, science projects (aerodynamics and gyroscopes) as well as general fun. This is a project can be built by small children since it requires no cutting.”
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