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Halloween DIY – How to Make a Werewolf Mask Costume!

Posted on October 7, 2009 by max

Werewolf has always been the most awesome creature at Halloween, here’s a great guide on how to make yourself  a werewolf mask costume!

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Lock Hack – How to Hack MasterLock!

Posted on October 7, 2009 by max

We featured couple different posts on how to hack a masterlock, here’s a “graphical” guide you can use to hack a MasterLock.  Of course, my advice is actually not use a MasterLock as it can easily be hacked. (

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Halloween DIY – How to Make Halloween Hanging Mobiles!

Posted on October 7, 2009 by max
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Halloween is certainly just right around the corner and you might be interested in how to learn to make Halloween Hanging Mobiles!

I really happened to like this one as the project involves using a computer-controlled CNC machine to do “exact” and “precise” cut-outs.

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Oven DIY – How to Make an Awesome Brick Oven!

Posted on October 7, 2009 by max
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Looking for a a way to make an awesome brick oven?  Well, look no more as Mike has a great tutorial on how to make a brick pizza oven.  Supposedly this is temporary fire oven but I think it might also work just as well for a permanent, outdoor oven.

This is a great, low-cost project for someone who wants to test out the ins-and-outs of brick oven cooking. With minor modifications, it can be assembled semi-permanently and get you through a season of baking delicious breads and pizzas.

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Watch Hack – How to Make a Spanner Wrench for Taking the Back out of a Watch!

Posted on October 7, 2009 by max
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Fixing most watches involve two things, either a spanner wrench or a simple tool to pull the back out.  Well, if you happen to replace those batteries on you expensive watch all the time and pay at least $10 to the watch repair shops, there’s a better way.  You can learn how to make your own spanner wrench custom0-fitted to your watch so you can replace the batteries yourself.  (There’s also a guide on how to make a pla

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Halloween DIY – How to Make your own Halloween Paper Bag Mask!

Posted on October 6, 2009 by max
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For those of you looking for a simple Halloween costume that is cheap yet highly “unique”, you might want to consider learning how to make your own Halloween paper bag mask by simply cutting up your favorite celebrity’s face and glueing in on a paper bag.  Why not?   Don’t spend a ton of money on a Halloween costume you will only use once a year, recycle a paper bag and get lots of attention at your next Halloween party.  Well, just my 2 cents on saving another 2 cents in this recessio

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Bike Hack – How to Add a Stepper Motor Powered LED Light!

Posted on October 6, 2009 by max
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I’ve seen a ton of bike lights that use the power of pedaling to provide bikers with nice array of lights as they drive down the road.  Well, here’s another awesome bike hack that shows you how to add a stepper motor-powered LED light.  I really like this one as I do actually have a bunch of unused stepper motors laying around. (and I am sure you do too if you hack around a bit…)

Steppers come with different resolutions. Virtually all steppers are either 1.8° or 7.5° per st

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Ribbon DIY – How to Make Ribbons from Recycled Materials!

Posted on October 6, 2009 by max

Hurray, it’s pink ribbon month this month, don’t forget to check out the Top 5 pink ribbon gadgets for raising world-wide awareness for breast-cancer.  Of course, if you have some recycled “pink” materials laying around, it might be actually a great idea to make you won “recycled” pink ribbon.  (Follow this guide here)

Also, this might be a great way

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Auto DIY – How to Jump Start Your Car with 12V DC Adaptors!

Posted on October 6, 2009 by max
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For those of you who are desperately needing to jump start your car (and for some reason even all your cellphones died/you don’t own land lines), you can try this simple method of connecting 12V DC adaptors in parallel to jump-start your car.

So long as you can provide ample 12VDC power, it really doesn’t matter how you jump-start your car.  One time, I even used a 12VDC laptop battery to jump-start my car so…

Rummaging through the parts on hand, [Richard] went with his old friend Sonic the Hedgehog. He used two 12-volt, 1 amp Sega Genesis power adapters in

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Laser DIY – How to Make a Super Powerful RGB Laser System!

Posted on October 6, 2009 by max

Lasers are always fun (and dangerous to point in someone’s eye), here’s an awesome DIY laser project that shows you how to make super-duper-powerful RGB laser system that can rock your next party at home!  (Well, I wouldn’t really use it for parties though…)

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