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How To: Make a Concrete and Copper Bedside Lamp curbly.com I’ve been on a bit of a lighting kick lately and I think I might just have to try this bedside lamp project. Especially since it involves two of my favorite materials: concrete and… Continue reading on Curbly.com How To: Make a Concrete and Copper … Continue reading DIY copper and concrete lamp
Pack Multi-Layered Meals in Mason Jars for a Grab-and-Go Lunch You Can Make in Advance Alan Henry, lifehacker.com Finding time to pack a lunch ahead so you can eat well and save a bit of cash can be tricky. Thankfully the solution to making a healthy, tasty lunch that you can grab in the morning … Continue reading Mason jar lunches: safe, healthy and mobile
Man Transforms Old TV Screen into 2000 Degree Fahrenheit Solar Death Ray That Can Melt Pennies Lori Zimmer, inhabitat.com DIY expert Grant Thompson has a use for those heavy old rear-projection televisions that have been collecting dust in your basement—he transforms them into solar-powered death rays! Thompson takes advantage of the convex screens’ ability to … Continue reading Turn an old TV into a solar death ray
Tentsile’s New Stingray Hanging Tent Lets You Sleep Comfortably Suspended in the Trees! Morgana Matus, inhabitat.com Forget about soggy sleeping bags and competing with rocks and debris on the cold, hard ground on your next camping trip – Inhabitat favorite Tentsile just launched a brand new suspended tent called the Stingray that lets you rest … Continue reading Tensile canopy tent
Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room - Images gizmag.com Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room - Images http://flip.it/YoSlL http://flip.it/SxMah Related articles Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room (gizmag.com) Curbed Maps: Homes With Hot Tubs And Saunas Keep … Continue reading Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room
A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com To get definitive evidence if oil from the BP spill has seeped into water sources, citizen scientists need a device called a spectrometer. Sounds fancy and expensive. But a new project will send you one made with nothing but a few … Continue reading A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated
The Future of Firearms: DIY Guns You Can Make at Home By Eliza Shapiro, thedailybeast.com School shootings be damned. Companies like Defense Distributed are moving forward with newfangled 3-D printers that let you make guns at home, writes Eliza Shapiro. Four days after the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Cody Wilson wa… RT @thedailybeast: … Continue reading DIY firearms means unlimited guns for anyone
DIY History crowdsources the transcription of 17th century cookbooks By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk Culture “We are what we eat,” the old saying goes. If so, there’s no better way to digest culture than to comb through painstakingly handwritten cookbooks. Now, the University of Iowa Libraries has made the task exponentially easi… RT @WiredUK: DIY History … Continue reading DIY history digitizes ethnomedical recipe books
How to make calves’ head soup, and other culinary treats from the past By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk Culture The University of Iowa Libraries has made the task exponentially easier with the launch of DIY History, a crowdsourcing initiative that allows volunteers to transcribe the Szathmary Culinary Archives, centuries’ wort… http://flip.it/m6bBi Related articles BioCurious DIY BioPrinter … Continue reading DIY history identifies forgotten bio prospecting knowledge
Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a stylish skateboarding video shot with a drone By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Skateboarders have been taping their tricks with jury-rigged video setups since the advent of camcorders, but the producers of short and beautiful video Firefly took the next logical step: using a camera mounted to a hexacopte… Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a … Continue reading DIY drone filmmaking replaces expensive Hollywood tech
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