DIY Pedal Powered Snow Plow is fun even for your Kids!

For the ultimate snow plowing this winter, you might want to consider making one of these DIY Pedal Powered Snow Plow which even your kids would love to ride on.

Kevin Blake, who by day is an engineer at Trek Bicycles, came up with the idea of using pedal power to push show about 13 years ago. In 1993 Blake built a recumbent commuter tricycle with a friend and remembers thinking “could I put a blade on the front and push snow?”

His friend was skeptical about it working at all because of traction and weight issues with the light weight trike. Undeterred, Blake figured that if he could “snowplow” with a regular shovel then it should be possible to use the legs in a pedaling motion to do the same thing.

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DIY iPhone HACK - How to get

Whether you have the original iPhone or the new iPhone 3G, you are in luck because there’s a hack to allow focusing of the camera simply by removing some glue after you hack it open.

This glue was applied at the two indented points on opposite sides of the camera as indicated, but is rather rubbery. I found that slicing lightly along the division and then scraping with the backside of the blade, I could remove almost all visible glue (it may leave light marks, but as long as some “crumbs” of the rubber glue come out, you should be fine. Now, you may be able to rotate the inner assembly by hand if none seeped in further, but if it still won’t budge, try grasping the raised area with protruding “grip” sections with the pliers and rotate clockwise gently. It should break free, and now be turnable by finger. Rotating counterclockwise makes closer objects in focus, while rotating clockwise goes back out.

On both the first-gen and 3G, you can use the camera app to give a live preview.

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Check out this DIY PacMan Mini Portable Gamer, pretty amazing how everything has been compacted to fit this little box.

-2.5” Intec game screen (CCFL Backlight)

-Uses a PCB taken from a Jakks Pacific - Namco TV Games

-Runs off 4x AA batteries (2.5 Hours Play)

-Charging port for when rechargeable batteries are used

-Power LED and reset button

-No sound support (maybe in the future)

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DIY - How to Build Your Own HDTV Antenna and use Direct TV Satellite as Mount!

Don’t get the wrong idea here.  The idea is to use an existing Direct TV Satellite as a mount for the HDTV antenna.  This does awfully better than anything you can buy and probably get really good reception with this method.

I got my Tv converter Box (with the Government program Coupon). I hooked up with a regular rabbit ear antenna and although the signal and quality are waaaay better that the analog ones, I couldn’t get all the stations and some where a bit erratic. I went on Google and start looking for HDTV antennas and I found several easy to make DIYs setups, but they can be big and ugly to keep in my living room. So, I build the antenna but and I use an old Direct TV dish mounted in my garage (I don’t have the subscription and I don’t want too), the dish has been in my place since I move, and the best thing, it’s wired to my living room.

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Do you have a lot of pretty little birds in your yard?  Then, you might want to consider building your birds their own birdhouse to live in and breed.

So bring some modernism to your house, whatever its era, by creating a home for your native avian population by building a mid-century birdhouse. I’ve included my measurements and process here, but feel free to model yours after architecture you love. And don’t worry if you don’t have a full collection of woodworking tools (I don’t either…) You can build a birdhouse with any handsaw, an electric drill, and glue. Or, you can borrow tools from a local tool lending library or have the employees at your local lumberyard or home center make the cuts for you.

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If you have been using computers since the early 90s or even before, you probably have couple of these DIN keyboards lying around.

Here’s a DIY that will show you how to solder on a PS/2 style cable to your old DIN keyboard so you can re-use it again.

This instructable is for anyone out there with a perfectly good older style din 5 keyboard that they just can’t seem to throw away. With a little work you can save something from the land fill. Sure you could just buy an adapter cable but that wouldn’t exactly be recycling.

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This isn’t really, technically a skateboard but it is a type of a skateboard you can make.

Here’s a great instruction on how to hack your own skateboard from scratch although I do suggest buying one if you can afford it.

I just finished out my latest project. A contribution for the DIY (Do it yorself) community. Since I love skateboards I just couldn’t start anywhere else. Inspired by the amount of waste produced by the growth of consumerism in Europe, specially here in Frankfurt, seen through the weekly dispose of old stuff in the middle of the streets. I wanted to show one way of rethinking the use of old materials in the example of a DIY skateboard.

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Recently, I have been actually looking for a table to buy a table for a small spot that needs one.  With this DIY, I will be able to make a new small table with some of my old magazines I’d throw away eventually anyways.

I like the concept, of re-using magazines for DIY furnitue design.  The most amazing part is that it requires very little hardware.

If there’s anything we have too many of in our apartment, it’s magazines and plants. So we solved the problem by re-purposing six magazines (and that’s all you need–no glue or scissors required!) into this plant stand. It took about ten minutes. Here’s how…

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Here’s a fun DIY for those of you with too much time in your hands, a DIY on how to make potato plastic! (or make plastic from potatoes that’s what I meant)

I am not sure if the potato plastic itself is edible but does look like a real good alternative to our traditional air-polluting plastic.

In this video we make a batch of potato plastic based on an instructable by Brandon121233. For this project you will need potato starch, white vinegar, baking soda, water, and glycerin (which can be found at most pharmacies). The tools for this project are a stove and saucer pan, in addition you’ll need a blender, knife, and peeler if you’re making your own starch.

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