You know every year, solar power is getting cheaper by the dozen, solar lights are everywhere including front yard of many homes that I see in my neighborhood. Well, there’s a way you can hack those cheap solar lights into solar LED bricks, this instructable shows you how. Brilliant.
With this in mind, I combed craigslist for some suitably shaped glass blocks, went to Home Depot for the appropriate solar light, stocked up on speaker wire and came up with the Solar Pow
The folks at RocLok just tweeted to me about their cool RocLok, a rock key stash with combination lock. I think this is a great idea for stashing your house key without making it too easy for burglars to steal your keys if they found your rock stash.
I’ve never felt safe about using rock key stashes but this one might be sensible to use, finally!
You can get if for $49.95 at RocLock.com.
Here’s a great idea for making something useful, a DIY thermoelectric LED lamp that uses that generates electricity off the temperature difference between the hot candle and the cool heat sink. I have to say this could come in handy when your power goes out. Rather than using the candle itself to see in the dark, use it to power this cool LED lamp.
I am sure this idea can be applied for many other things, brilliant indeed.
The thermoelectric lamp generates electricity off the temperature difference between the hot candle and the cool heat sink. This we can us
I feel that American companies try too hard marketing their stuff to buy refills and whatnot including printers. Well, for Swiffer dusters out there, you don’t have to keep buying refills if you on a budget, try this Swiffer bottle hack so you can refill with Mr. Clean and water instead, practically the same thing for a lot less.
Drill a 5/16″ hole in the top (when upside down) of the bottle. Hot glue a 5/16″ nut around the hole you just drilled. Once cool, insert your 5/16″ bolt into the hole. We refilled ours with half Mr. Clean, half water.
Have an old iMac G4? Well, you don’t need to throw it away, make one of these awesome DIY iLamps!
On January 7, 2002 Steve Jobs introduced a beautifully redesigned iMac loaded with an 800 MHz PowerPC 7445 (G4) processor and 15″ Flat Panel LCD screen. The new iMac was nicknamed the “iLamp, since Apple advertised it as having the flexibility of a desk lamp.
Almost eight years since the official launch, our old friend iMac has actually b
For those of you looking for ways to make your Christmas Tree “cooler”, you might want to try making this floating Christmas Tree. Actually, the Christmas Tree is hanging from the top but still, this might be a great mod to make more room for your Christmas gifts at the bottom.
A few years back the puddle under the tree said it was time for a new stand. The faithful plastic one (with a cool built-in adjustable tilt feature) had cracked. A scramble to find a new stand a few days before Christmas proved fruitless…with the popularity of artificial trees
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Well in this case, it’s also true that a lounge chair is worth a thousand recycled plastic bottles.
I think this lounge chair might actually be rather comfortable to sit on, what do you think?
Honestly, I have been boycotting IKEA because every furniture I bought there has broke in less than a year and plus, I don’t like having the same furniture as rest of my buddies. Well, enough about that but there’s a great way to make a chandelier using a bunch of cheap IKEA lamps.
Perhaps, IKEA furniture can be useful after all, if you can hack it a bit to make something else with it. As for me, I will have to boycott IKEA in favor of more expensive furniture that won’t break on me.
This Instructable shows you how to build large spherical lamps o
Winter season is hitting its peak soon around the world and this might be a great time to learn how to make newspaper logs. Not only these burn easily but they can actually be great fire starters for your regular wood logs that need to be started right. Also, you might benefit from the newspapers that are have been stacked in your garage. (I hope not, who still reads newspapers by the way?)
It’s kind of like hardcore paper mache. To get a solid log, you must change the structure of the newspaper. That is from sheets to pulp. Usually there’s no shortcuts in p
If you are Batman-movie-lover like I am, you might be interested in making your own DIY batman lamp, that allows your house to light up Batman 911 signals.
