Jun 26th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 11:06 am 
Johna from Stop Staring and Start Sewing took this three-dollar plain t-shirt and transformed it into a swanky stylish shirt with just a few cuts and stitches.
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Jun 26th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 10:06 am 
It is a tool for desoldering (multi leg) electronic components with 3 or more pins.
Theory behind this project is fairly simple. Dissolved solder in heated container heats all contacts of electronic component placed together with PCB on this tool. All you have to do is remove component from PCB wit…
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Jun 26th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 10:06 am 
When I got married, way back in the last century, big puffy sleeves complemented with bold colors and super shiny fabrics still ruled the world of weddings. Wedding gowns were over the top, bridesmaid dresses were the stuff nightmares are made of, and cake toppers were often sickly sentimental or big, gaudy affairs.
I got married in a redwood grove, in flat shoes, and surrounded by a carpet of rose petals I gathered and dried myself. For the cake I wanted simple — a few flowers, a few tiers, and we were happy. But the cake topper became a bit of a problem. We didn’t like the big ones, and the traditional ones seemed out of place in the forest.
Finally, I decided to go with humor — I found a couple of bride and groom troll dolls with hair colors that matched ours. Trolls are native to the forest, I thought to myself. And to really make them ours, I cut some of the hair off the groom and carefully glued it to the face of the groom troll. My husband-to-be had a beard, and so did the cake topper groom.
The caterer joined in on the theme, and created some amazing sculptures out of vegetables — swans out of whole melons, groomsmen and the bride out of crookneck squash, and an assortment of flowers out of red cabbage, radishes, jicama, and green onions. I always thought they’d be fun to try to re-create as a DIY project.
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Jun 26th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 10:06 am 
In the UK, lines outside Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery (estimated to be an hour wait time) are testimony to the popularity of notorious street artist Banksy. The museum is proud to present a unique collaboration between the city’s foremost cultural institution and one of the region’s most infamous artists. Most widely recognized for his subversive stencil art, Banksy needs no introduction to many. And of course in true Banksy fight-the-power style, admission is free. The exhibit will run until August 31st. Wish I was on the other side of the pond for this one! Since the installation seems beyond words, check out the trailer for some flavor:
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Jun 26th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 10:06 am 
No we’re not stealing musical beats of any kind but we are going to make leds flash to music using a joule thief circuit with a slight modifacation
finding parts
you could buy parts or salvage them like I did , but anyways you need :
toroid bead
3.5mm audio jack
thin wire
led (any colour)
270 oh…
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Jun 26th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 10:06 am 
I originally made this as a gift to my mom. It takes about a whole role of duct tape about 2 hours. I made 2 more after that for both my grandmothers.
well anyways hope you enjoy!!!
what you will need
This is a list of things you will need,
time,
a roll of duct tape,
a crayon or marker either work…
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Jun 26th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 10:06 am William Grill needed a better view of his work surface for project prototyping. Using an inexpensive color video camera, he was able to create a simple display system that shows his work at 12x on his PC monitor. “It’s amazing what detail you can see when you view your solder surface mounted parts at 7-, 10- or even 15-times,” he writes.
Gadget Freak Case #135: Magnify Your Workbench
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Jun 26th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 10:06 am 
Well I have an Indonesian crafted Squire Strat (I normally tell people its a vintage Fender). As With all cheap beginner electric guitars especially ones with single coil pickups you get a lot of feed back and un-wanted noise.
After a days work the improvement even surprised me and was worth every…
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Jun 26th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 10:06 am 
Build It Solar has a great collection of solar DIY projects, including stills, cookers, food driers, and water heaters. But the gem of their solar-distillation collection, for my money, is this paper, from 1985, by Horace McCracken and Joel Gordes. It’s unformatted ASCII and black-and-white GIFs, but it provides a better review of the various designs of solar stills, and the theory that informs their design and operation, than anything else I’ve found in the tubes.
From the pages of MAKE:
If you’re interested in all things solar, be sure to check out Parker Jardine’s Solar Power System Design in MAKE 14.
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Jun 26th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 10:06 am 
A few days ago i bought some battery holder from a radio shack.
I glued them to my device, soldered the Pins.
After very short time i realized the poor quality of the holders.
The batteries pop out easily and on one the spring had only unstable contact to soldering lug.
So i decided to make my own…
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