All Entries Tagged With: "DIY"
Magnetic Coffee Cozy Lets You Hang Your Cup On A Street Lamp
Do you like have your coffee with a cigarette? So what happens when your phone rings while you’re on a coffee break? You only have two hands. What are you supposed to do? Exactly.
The DIY Magnetic Coffee Cozy solves that dilemma. Instead of having to hold three things in your hands at the same time, you can simply attach the coffee onto any available steel surface, such as a streetlamp (as in the above photo) or a parked car. Day saved.
Even if you don’t smoke, this thing is hella useful. Need to fiddle with your bag while walking in the street? Simply park at the nearest mailbox and do what you need to do. No need to worry about the cup falling over (like when you simply put it on top of the mailbox), since the sleeve is designed to hold it securely.
According to creator AP, you can make your [...]
How To Squeeze Even More Mileage Out Of Your Car: The DIY Boat Tail
Darin Cosgrove is serious about MPG savings. How else, after all, would you explain the decision to give his car a boat tail for even better fuel economy? It’s not a discreet spoiler-like attachment either. He slapped a huge-ass homemade boat tail that extends the rear in both a visually painful and uncomfortable-to-drive manner.
Cosgrove used a 1998 Pontiac Firefly as the canvas for his creation, adding what’s effectively a snout on the car’s rear end. While that eyesore on the back guarantees no one’s going to get laid on that ride, it’s not like you’ll have girls lining up to take a spin on that econobox anyway. Probably, even back when it was brand new.
The frame of the tail was built using cardboard, dressed up with a black-painted aluminum skin to match it with the rest of the car. Looking to make the addition as minimally invasive to the vehicle [...]
Famicom Guitar Gives Your Six-String Some Gaming Cred
Done with console guitar games and ready for the real thing? Good for you. If you don’t wish to abandon your gaming roots completely, you should steer clear of the usual brands and wax your string-bending prowess with something like this: a Famicom Guitar. Take that, Les Paul and Fender.
Why pay for a guitar that looks bad-ass when you can make yourself one that’s styled like it’s straight out of a kid’s wet dream back in 1985? Sure, it’s not a real Famicom on the body (that will probably sound disastrous), but it definitely looks close, doesn’t it?
I’m not sure if it’s a kit of some sort available in Japan (I don’t think it is, though I can’t read Japanese, so I’m not sure), but it’s a very cleanly-built instrument. The dimensions aren’t quite the same as an actual Famicom (the original size just won’t work as a guitar), but [...]
Breathe New Life On Your Dying Shoes With The JGoods Sneaker Restoration Kit
Your favorite sneakers nearing their inevitable end? Hold your favorite kicks’ eventual demise just a short while longer with the JGoods Sneaker Restoration Kit, an all-in-one outfit that lets you breathe new life into your old and battered rubber footwear.
Got absolutely nothing going in the fix-it-up department? Not a problem. This kit lays out the process simply, putting together everything needed to get you started on the path of putting that 1989 Reebok Pump you picked up for a dollar at the Flea Market back to wearable form (despite the wife’s objections).
The JGoods Sneaker Restoration Kit comes with a complete guide to the process, starting with a comprehensive guide that takes you on a tour from start to finish. Set includes a 12 x 12 inch towel, a stiff poly scrub brush, a melamine foam pad, a scourer sponge, a paint brush, cotton swabs, a can of finish remover and [...]
NES Bartop Arcade Cabinet Makes You Rethink What A Kitchen Computer Is Supposed To Do
It’s nice to get an arcade cabinet for your game room. Scoring one with a beer tap on the side (see Arkeg) is even better. Having it in your kitchen counter right next to the fridge where all the beer hides, however, is just sublime. This homemade counter-top Nintendo arcade cabinet just made me drool with envy, not to mention want to spend more time in the kitchen than I normally do.
The machine’s guts consist of an old spare PC (running Windows XP), with a 17-inch LCD used as the screen. A custom program listing all available games auto-loads during bootup, with a NES emulator and pre-installed ROMs providing the on-screen entertainment.
Measuring 24 x 18 x 24 inches, the cabinet was built using 0.25-inch thick MDF. One set of joysticks and arcade buttons have been soldered into the board, along with two USB and [...]
Customize Your Walls With The Frames Wallpaper
Looking for a customizable wallpaper to bring new life to a room? Try the Frames Wallpaper, which outfits your walls with unevenly-drawn frames that you can fill with any sort of imagery to your liking. The result is a wallpaper that is outfitted as uniquely as you can dream up.
Created by artists Taylor and Wood, Frames is a simple white wallpaper with varying sizes of rectangular black prints. You can treat it like a coloring sheet, laying crayons (or any shading material you fancy) across its surface. You can also draw illustrations or stick photos inside the frames, instantly creating encased (looks like it anyway) art without having to hang anything.
Each sheet measures 20.5 x 396 inches and are made from 50% recycled materials. While it might not make the classiest living room decoration, it should work out great for children’s bedrooms and rec rooms, allowing you to exercise your [...]
Box Kit Guitar Amplifier: Smash It All You Want, It’s Only $30
A great-sounding guitar amp for $30? Gotta be kidding, right? Well, that’s what Critter and Guitari claims to deliver with their Box Amplifier Kit, a DIY package that lets you turn any throwaway box (cardboard or otherwise) into a functional amplifier that you can plug real instruments into.
As with any box kit, the set contains everything you will need to slap together a working amplifier. Simply solder the parts as directed and find a container to pack them in (cutting holes for externally-accessible parts, of course). You can stuff it just as easily in a shoe case as in a garbage can, allowing for a wide variety of cool enclosures.
It comes with a 1/4-inch jack for plugging in your instrument cables, along with a speaker and a small set of controls. You will need a 9-volt power supply to crank it up, although it can be modified to work with [...]
