Blow your own air-horn
Most sports-fans are familiar with the extremely loud air-horns powered by a can of compressed air.This Instructable tells you how to make your own air-horn from common house-hold scraps.With a little...
View ArticlePower LED's - simplest light with constant-current circuit
Here's a really simple and inexpensive ($1) LED driver circuit. The circuit is a "constant current source", which means that it keeps the LED brightness constant no matter what power supply you use or...
View ArticleSpeaker Art
This is a very simple and fun way to make a regular canvas painting a bit more interactive. I recently moved to a small town in Scotland with my wife for educational reasons, and was getting a little...
View ArticleSlowflow watering decanter
This improvised watering decanter is perfect for watering small plants that don't need a lot of water but do need it regularly. It's simple and is made of dirt-cheap items that most people probably...
View ArticleHow to Make Bacon Soap
Soap can be made from just about any kind of fat. Even though fat from bacon, called lard, isn't the finest of fats to use for making soap, it somehow seemed to be the most exciting. Why? Because bacon...
View ArticlePentax DSLR cable shutter release from hands-free cell phone kit
I'm trying to get into HDR photography, which usually requires some very long exposure shots. The best way to do this is with a tripod and a shutter release. I got the tripod off Craigslist, but the...
View ArticleAdding motion control to a projection clock
Goal: Add a motion sensor that lights up the clock at night when it detects movement, and make the backlight brightness manually adjustable.Why: I only have a few requirements for a good bed-side...
View ArticleGas Powered Blender
So you'd like to have a nice blended margarita out in the middle of nowhere? So did I. All you need is gas trimmer and a blender to make blended drinks in remote areas. Of course, I'm still working on...
View ArticleRGB Color Controllable High Power LED Room + Spot Lighting
Color Controllable High Power Lighting - no longer for billionaires only! Build your own fully color controllable RGB room or spot lighting for under $100. Perhaps you are asking yourself: "why would i...
View ArticleAluminum and Bamboo Table
Using extruded aluminum, some pre-fabricated fasteners and a couple of pieces of nice bamboo plywood we put together a few good looking conference tables.By: noahwContinue Reading »
View ArticleBuild a Nintendo NES PC
Ah, the Nintendo Entertainment System. Brings me back a lot of good memories: Super Mario Bros., Double Dragon, Megaman. It also brings back not-so-great memories. The agony of changing cartridges,...
View ArticleThumb Piano
I saw one of these somewhere a while back and always thought it would be fun to play with. A quick Google came up with several including the one in this picture. It's available online for about $33....
View ArticlePost Office Drawings
This project was the genesis for an instructable I posted earlier called Drawing Machine http://www.instructables.com/id/E0NF3EW9NQEWIJM3KK/.This project takes a more mellow approach and makes the post...
View ArticleDuck Mouse
Captured on video: a duck-footed mouse, created through the wonders of taxidermy. This is an advanced project; see mouse taxidermy for the basics and Conjoined Twin Mice and LED Throwie Rat for other...
View ArticleDiamagnetic Levitation Experiment
Magnetic levitation is really fun to experiment with, and can make a great science fair project. However, it's hard to get dramatic results--the problem goes back to Earnshaw's theorem from 1842. He...
View Article3D Anaglyph Camera Attachment!
This device lets you take 3D anaglyph photos and movies with an ordinary camera. The parts cost about $30. It's pretty simple to build and you don't need any special software or camera equipment....
View ArticleQuick Repair for chipped Plastic
from http://www.RedBinary.comRepairing the plastic handle of my son's paintball gun with pourable urethane. By: RedBinaryContinue Reading »
View ArticleWireless Headphones Mod
Mod to make my heavy wireless headphones work just as well with lightwieght and much more comfortable ear buds.By: Instant ArcadeContinue Reading »
View ArticleWooden faced wristwatch
I have a thing for watches, and nicely figured wood, sadly I've only been able to find a couple of wood based watches. It sounded like a lovely weekend project to fab up a new face for a regular watch,...
View ArticleHappy Little Mac Pinhole Camera
We have all heard of Macquariums, and I have even built a few, but have you ever heard of a Mac Pinhole Camera? Here is how I built one for International Pinhole Camera day (4/29/07). I just know there...
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