Tag: Do It Yourself
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How to Make a Solar Water Heater from Water Bottles for $20
This DIY water heater uses simple materials and is great for camping.
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Worn Out Furniture Gets a Statement-Revamp by Brazilian Artists
Curitiba-based studio Fetiche created a set of chairs and tables that expose their imperfections as a statement against serial design.
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Howcast Launches Video Website, Shows You How To Do Anything
Howcast has reached 1 billion views since its start in 2008, and has now launched a website that teaches you how to do all sorts of stuff from fixing gadgets to saving gas.
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Gaia Soda: An Ethical Alternative to Soda Stream Home Carbonation?
A new start-up is accusing the big home soda machine manufacturers of ripping off consumers and selling unhealthy products.
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5 Creative IKEA Hacks for the Garden
Hack these IKEA products into something new for your garden.
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Make Your Own Plant Tags From Discarded Fountain Drink Cups
Upcycle fountain drink cups into plant tags to label your seedlings and plants.
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Grow Alliums for Spring Blooms Deer and Squirrels Won't Eat
The ornamental cousins of onions grow beautiful blooms deer don't like, but you'll fall in love with.
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Solar-Powered Firefly Jar Creates Summer Fun without Killing Bugs
A DIY kit simulates the light of fireflies in a jar and doesn't require capturing the insects.
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Build a Robot! Arduino-Based Four-Legged Robot Your Can Make Yourself.
We love biomimicry in robots, especially those that look and move like animals and insects. Now here's an opportunity to build your own!
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Make Your Own Electric Motor with Buckyballs (Video)
Using buckyballs, you can make your own little electric motor.
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Ridiculously Easy-to-Build Scrap Wood iPhone Stand
If you've never done a woodworking project, this is the one to start with. And you'll end up with a very cute little stand for your phone.
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How to Build a Solar-Powered Lawn Mower
If you must mow your lawn, this is a good way to keep your carbon footprint in check.
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20 Top Tech Stories From April
We saw loads of interesting stories this past month, but here are 20 of the best.
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Super Simple DIY Beach Chair Is Made from a Towel and Broomsticks
The "sand chair" is an open source project that makes chilling on the beach simpler than ever.
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High Tech DIY Sensors Could Help Keep Billions of Gallons of Raw Sewage Out of NYC Harbor
An entrepreneurial design student may have found an intuitive, relatively simple way to keep 27 billion gallons of raw sewage from being dumped in New York City's harbor every year.
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Build a Micro-Hydropower Generator from CDs and Repurposed Printer Parts
Think you need to be an engineer and spend a bundle to create a mini-hydropower generator? Think again.
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Build-Your-Own Cell Phone Kit Created by MIT Media Lab
If you've ever wanted to craft your very own cell phone, this kit coming to market soon is a good place to start.
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Hack Your Own Descriptive Camera In Minutes
Everyone loves Matt Richardson's Descriptive Camera, that turns photos into a text description. We offer a cheap and easy alternative.
