Archive for February, 2008
Build Your Own Free Cardboard Furniture
Looking for practically free dorm furniture, or disposable furniture that you can be pretty sure your kids won’t destroy? FoldSchool has three free furniture designs, including a stool, a chair, and a rocker, with step-by-step instructions and downloadable PDF plans. Made of readily-available 4mm thick cardboard, this furniture looks to be as durable as it is design-conscious. [...]
Do it Yourself Flash Drive Mods
Rachel, a student at UCLA, has put together a new site to help you spice up those ubiquitous keychain flash drives that everyone seems to be carrying around. (Mine is full of newspaper clippings about myself, so that I can dazzle at a MOMENT’S NOTICE.) She plans on having a library of tutorials and a [...]
High-Velocity Lego Mindstorms CD Thrower
Man, the New Lego Mindstorms sets, named “Mindstorms NXT,” really are capable of some amazing things. And while categorizing this entry under “Media Management” may be a bit of a stretch on my part, this high-speed CD thrower is nothing short of astonishing. Never before has it been so easy to send your old AOL [...]
The Diet Coke and Mentos Trick
Buy Mentos
Buy Diet Coke
And here’s why:
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HOW TO: Resurface a CD
Got a CD that’s scratched beyond repair, but don’t want to buy one of those Got a CD that’s scratched beyond repair, but don’t want to buy one of those expensive (and often, ineffective) resurfacing machines? Turns out its easy to resurface them yourself. A little Brasso and a little elbow grease is all you [...]
Welcome to the New Movement
The very notion of the Do-it-Yourself (or DiY) ethic is different things to different people, and the definition changes depending on who you ask. To your grandfather, DiY could well mean slapping together a makeshift guide for his router table, rather than paying for one that would cost many times more. Your dad might tell [...]
