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Make Your Own Light Painting Orb Creator
Long exposure night photography can be a fun pass-time especially on a cool summer evening. "Light painting" can make things even more fun. If you've looked into light painting you've no doubt seen...
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Bring a Vintage GI Joe Walkie-Talkie Back to Life with Bluetooth!
I had only one circa 1970, GI-Joe green Walkie-Talkie that, to the untrained eye, only sits there and occasionally generates static. But to an observer of the correct age and attitude, this toy can...
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How to Fix a Microwave Turntable Motor
What's the matter Wall-e, why so sad? Is your microwave making funny noises? Is your gourmet dinner all chewy in spots 'cause it's not cooked evenly? Well I can relate! The turntable on my...
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How to Patch a Wire or Barbed Wire Fence
What the heck is that big rusty yellow thing? ....that's what they used to say about my car back in high school, but no, I'm talking about the big rusty yellow thing in the picture! It's an old Fence...
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Create Your Own Solar Powered Mason Jar Nightlight from Junk
It's spring which of course means two things: - Rain, snow and snow-shovels have left wornout, damaged and broken solar garden lights in the yard. - Garden centers are running specials on new solar...
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Make Your Own Cigar Box Guitar / Mp3 Player Amplifier
I've wanted to create a Cigar Box Guitar and Amp for quite some time, and it seems like the Instructable Sound Hack and Battery Powered contestst were just the extra incentive I needed to give it a...
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3D Printing with Shapeways.com and Google Sketchup - Secret Decoder Wheel !
I've wanted to try 3D printing for quite some time but I also didn't want to spend a bunch of money on it. So when I found out about Shapeways.com and how I could use the free 3D drawing tool Google...
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Hack Your Furby into Zombie Furby!
Hmm, a rainy day find at Goodwill...a crusty old Furby with one broken ear for only $1.99!!! ..what to do, what to do? Well ToysRUs happens to have the "Megaphone Voice Changer" on sale for only $4.50....
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How to Repair a Weak USB cable with Sugru
Hurrah! Our Hacker space is having a Sugru build night! I've never tried this stuff out but I've heard great things about it. Let's see, should I make a bloodshot blinking LED lamp? or a protective...
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Add a "Flusher" to Your Favorite Outhouse
Over the 4th of July holiday, we like to stay at a backwoods cabin that has years ago, added Indoor plumbing, electricity, and (egads!) even TV AND the internet. But the owners have decided to keep...
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Make Your Own Vintage Bike Buzzer
It's prime bike trail weather right now! Have you ever been on a busy bike trail where a simple "On your left" or "Coming through" is not quite enough to alert headphone wearing, walkers, talkers, and...
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How to Hack a McDonald's Happy Meal Minion into an Electric Slide Whistle
How to Hack Phil McMinion: Who doesn't love Minions from the movie Despicable Me? ...well when McDonalds recently had Minions as the prize in their Happy Meals, I had to make several trips to collect...
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Build Your Own Low Cost Pickup Truck Canoe Rack
It's prime canoeing weather and our Maker Space "The Rabbit Hole" planned a canoe trip, awesome! Problem is, I had one canoe of our own, and a truck, but no canoe rack (and didn't want to drive all...
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How to Build a Soda Pop Bottle Rocket Launcher
How to Build a Soda Pop Bottle Rocket Launcher So we were having a work picnic and we wanted to have some kinda geeky fun ... a Soda Pop Bottle Rocket Launch was suggested....problem is we didn't have...
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Build Your Own "Turbo Time" 555 Timer Demonstration
What can a 555 Timer do? Our maker space, The Rabbit Hole recently had a Jameco build night where we (this project was worked on by group members Mazzmn, Hydrotron and theZuke) experimented with 555...
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3D Printable Robot Money Clip with Grip
Instructables has eaten into my evening once again!! They put out this 3D Project Challenge in combination with 3dcreationsystems.com. So simple, all I have to do is design or modify a money clip...
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Let's Have a Rockets and Lumi Picnic - Yay!
Our hacker space - the Rabbit Hole - received some Lumi.co Inkodye from Instructables.com and came up with a fun idea: Since Lumi Inkodye requires bright sunlight to make custom Tee-shirts, let's go...
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How to Create Lumi Inkodye Tee-Shirts!
How to Create Lumi Inkodye Tee-Shirts! In this Instructable I'm going to show you how to create cool looking Lumi Tee-shirts, but I'm also going to reveal some lessons learned. I'm hoping you can avoid...
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How to Coil Extension Cords with the "Shepherd's Knot"
This Instructable explains a handy way to store an extension cord. Instead of a tangled mess, or trying to wrap the entire cord around your arm only to have it fall apart, try the Shepherd's Knot, it's...
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Create an Internet Connected Pill Dispenser
The P.I.L. Box - A Better Medication Reminder System Studies show the consequences of patients not taking medications according to doctor's orders can be serious, especially in older patients.With...
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