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diy project: kate’s painterly silhouettes


i love the crisp, graphic nature of silhouettes. I know that you’ve seen a lot of silhouette designs though, so i tried to give you a project that rethinks the traditional form a bit by allowing you to add your own style to it. the great thing abo...
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make it! secondhand chic + filing cabinet kitchen cart DIY

i’m always excited when a new ebook from curbly is launched. their last title, make it! mid century modern, was a big hit and i was excited to hear that they were moving on to tackle my favorite subject: reusing found and secondhand objects to crea...
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made with love: wild violet centerpieces


Regardless of the fact that I work full-time at a spectacular flower shop, elbow deep in stupidly fancy and pretty flowers, deep down I’ll always be a wild violet girl at heart. Each spring the yard of my childhood home would fill with little pur...
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$3 MIT Plunger Heals Wounds Quickly with Suction [Medicine]






Using mysterious-yet-well-known medical knowledge about negative suction healing and a $3 plunger I swore I just helped my friend buy for his new apartment, MIT Grad Student Danielle Zurovcik may have inv...
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sewing 101: how to make a shower curtain

My bathroom is quite old and somewhat grungy, so until I can afford better real estate, I thought a loud and colorful curtain would help draw the eye away from some of my bathroom’s less savory qualities… and thus, this patchwork shower curta...
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diy project: refreshing old bed linens

Time and time again I grow bored with my plain old bed sheets, or they become dingy and I yearn for the freshness of new linens before the time comes that I can afford them. A quick fix to freshening up sheets, shams, duvet covers or any other household ...
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diy project: recycled upside down planters


well it’s the middle of april, and i must have springtime on the brain, because all i want to do is look at plants all day. i have had my eye on the sky planters by boskke since christmas time; something about upside down plants really strikes me ...
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How To Hack Mind Reading Toys [DIY]






Mind-controlled toys are one of those little things that remind you we're sort of living in the future today (also: Disney FastPass). If you have some brain/computer schemes of your own, here's a thorough...
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Insane MMORPG Rig Lets You Farm For Gold with Six Computers at Once [Obsession]






You're really into MMORPGs when you spend hours repeating the same tasks over and over again to acquire gold. You're way, way too into MMORPGs when you create a custom six-computer setup to do it that muc...
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Make a Cheap Stylus for iPad and Other Touchscreen Devices
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DIY Soft iPhone and iPad Stylus from adam kumpf on Vimeo.
Whether you’ve got an an iPad, a different snazzy tablet, an Android phone, or some other touchscreen device, sometimes your fingertip isn’t the ideal in...
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DIY Tutorial Crams Accelerometer Into Your SNES Controller [Mods]






The classic SNES controller, often imitated but never duplicated, is borrowing motion controls from its Wii brethren courtesy this DIY hack over at Hackaday. More »






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iMac G4 Gutted to Make Swiveling 17-Inch Windows 7 Touchscreen [Touchscreens]






Modder Jon Berg took an old, broken 17" iMac, removed the insides, and taught the whole thing a few new tricks. Mainly, that it was now a giant touchscreen running Windows 7 skinned to resemble Leopard. ...
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post card gardens + painted cabinets


i think i’ve finally achieved amateur indoor gardener status now, as opposed to the dreaded black thumb i was for the past few years. i’ve managed to keep a few large-scale plants going for more than a month and i’ve feeling like perha...
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Hair Dryers Are Being Converted Into Superman's Worst Nightmare [DIY]






A bunch of Danish students turned old hair dryers into mobile phone booths. They supposedly think that this is the perfect way to let people make private calls in public. I just plain think they're trying...
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Make Your Own Ebooks With This $20 Rig [DIY]






OK, sure, that Winnie the Pooh iBook looks pretty slick. But what about all of those real books that are gathering dust on your real bookshelf? Well, with this Instructable, those can become (slightly les...
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spring floral how-to from janie of jmflora


i’m a sucker for beautiful flowers, so i couldn’t resist the chance to share a fun floral how-to this morning. janie medley at the bride’s cafe and jmflora specializes in beautiful wedding flowers, and offered to share a fun how-to tha...
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diy project: paper bag lanterns


the bbbcraft sisters love parties! and what’s more important at a party than lighting? with a couple of photographers in our family, we have always had to focus on both indoor and outdoor lighting at parties, making it soft and cozy and above all,...
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made with love: rose body lotion


We’ve reached that time of year when off go the heavy coats and thick tights and on go the scandals and sun dresses. I don’t know about you, but the first day my bare legs are exposed sans tights to the world is rough. Winter tends to leav...
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josh blackwell + plastic bags

just yesterday i was talking about my love of celebrating everyday “disposable” goods and now i’ve found a new artist working in that vein that love, thanks to one the lovely deanne cheuk. yesterday deanne featured artist josh blackwell...
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diy project: garden pot pick-me-up

planting season!! so exciting. i want to admit right here and now that i am NOT a green thumb, by any means. i have the desire to improve though, so i guess that counts for something. i know there are lots of fancy new garden pots on the market, but if y...
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Use Vaseline To Make Scratched CDs Work Again [DIY]






Rubbing Vaseline on scratched CDs to make them readable again is a new one to me, but Instructables has a DIY project up claiming it works perfectly. Mind you, they also say peanut butter works a charm to...
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Iron Man Wannabe Builds His Own J.A.R.V.I.S. For $691.98 [DIY]






Chad Barraford has designed a "digital life assistant" who recognizes him, cooks hot dogs, and alerts his friends when he has a migraine. Unlike Tony Stark's J.A.R.V.I.S. though, this one only cost $691.9...
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How a Robot Sidekick Is Made [DIY]






For some reason, CBS decided to actually allow late-night talk show host Craig Ferguson to have this robot skeleton companion. Mythbusters' Grant Imahara built the odd—and slightly freaky—fell...
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HDD Reborn as Bench Sander [DIY]






This week is tool tech: YouTuber [Mhkabir] opened up an HDD, removed the read head, and added some sand paper. The result is predictably predictable. Also, loud and marginally effective. [Hackaday] Mor...
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beyond the big day: a pancake breakfast

[image credits: Bridesmaid, couple, and napkin/plate images by Max Wanger, Couch image by Ye Rin Mok, Pancake image unkown, Calligraphy by Rifle Design, Ranunculus image]
When researching inspiration for this shoot, we kept coming back to the beautiful w...
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Print Out This 35mm Camera [DIY]






Printer. Paper. Rubber band. Two rolls of 35mm film. Do you have these things? Great. Let's make you a camera. More »






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Build a Kick-Ass Liquid Cooling System in 6 Simple Steps [LiquidCooling]






In the pantheon of nerd achievement, water cooling ranks near the top-somewhere between installing Linux and becoming fluent in Klingon. And there's a reason the hardest of the hardcore prefer water cooli...
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Percussion Instrument Made From Old Floppy Disks [DIY]






Making pleasing noises your ears will appreciate, and looking like dinosaur bones that have been strung up together by a crafter, this is a 21st century version (or should that be 20th century?) version o...
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diy project: ikea celeber decal food jars

i have eyed ikea’s celeber jars for some time now, but something has always prevented me from buying them. i realized that i while i love the mix of white ceramic and dark wood, a row of them on my kitchen shelf seems like too much white. i love an...
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diy project: teapot flower arrangement how-to

last week sarah brysk cohen from blossom and branch joined us for a fun floral arrangement how-to using a cocktail shaker and coffee tin. this week sarah is back for another fun arrangement how-to using something we all have around the kitchen- a teapot!...
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sewing 101: tissue box cover

[i'm thrilled to welcome brett bara back to d*s as a regular contributor! brett will be joining us every other week with one of her great sewing 101 how-to's. click here to check out her previous posts. so glad to have you as part of the team, brett!]
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DIY Lamp Requires No Glue, Nails or Screws [DIY]






You can build this lamp yourself with no glue, nails or screws...but there's a small catch. You'll need access to a CNC machine. Still game? Of course you are! More »






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That's Not A Flashlight, This 500 LED One Is A Flashlight [DIY]






500 five millimeter white LEDs have been affixed to a flashlight, turning it into a 50-watt behemoth that'll ensure you're seen in Timbuktu. More »






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How to Make Beautiful Light-Transmitting Concrete [DIY]






Making light-transmitting concrete sounds like an impossible and ridiculous task, but it turns out that it's actually a simple project with mesmerizingly beautiful results. You'll just need to grab some c...
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Inevitably, Yet Another Lego iPhone Dock Now Exists [Lego]






Apple-loving Lego collectors rejoice: There is now another (very 1980s looking) dock that combines your love for both things. It's somewhat gray, but these are Lego bricks—take the basic design and ...
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A DIY Turing Machine [DIY]






Mike Davey wanted to build a real Turing machine, but unfortunately he could not find the infinitely long tape required for the project. His solution? Using 1000 feet of white 35mm film leader and a dry ...
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Nothing Says 'I'm an Adult' Like a Wooly Willy Coffee Table [DIY]






Unless you grew up on Mars or were home schooled or something, you're familiar with Wooly Willy. And now one Instructables user has turned an Ikea coffee table into a gigantic Wooly Willy installation. I ...
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made with love: plant propagation


As an apartment dweller, I feel crazied each spring with dreams of having a real proper outdoor garden. Sadly, it isn’t in the cards so I usually redouble my houseplant efforts. Instead of buying new houseplants to feed my addiction, Ipropagate...
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diy project: ikea bedside chair

when we decided to move our bedroom to a different room in the house, we no longer had the space for our old bedside tables. i decided to use an old chair because it was narrow enough and it looked pretty good. unfortunately, i lost two important things ...
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diy project: ukrainian eggs made simple

every easter while we were growing up, we made ukrainian eggs with the help of our mom. we love how beautiful the traditional eggs are, whose patterns are intricate and geometric, but they are truly time consuming! we wanted to use the same great method...
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diy project: cocktail shaker + coffee tin arrangements

i love flowers the way i love good food: i like to surround myself with both as often as humanly possible. for me, flowers are the fastest (and prettiest) way to bring life to a room, and they always make my day a little bit happier. so today i’m h...
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The Incredibly Shrinking Arduino Nano 3.0 [DIY]






The latest Arduino surface mount board is now available, with double the memory, but lacking a power jack. It's got two layers, and as the name suggests it's much smaller than other Arduinos we've seen be...
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LightForm LED Strips Are Bendy, Cuttable, and Perfect For DIY Decorations [LEDs]






Ever struggle to find an LED strip that's just the right fit for your odd decorating project? Me either. But it's good to know that there's such a thing as these flexible light strips which can be cut to ...
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Become the King of Summer with a DIY Super Super Soaker [DIY]






Buying a water gun at Target is all well and good, but you'll have the same equipment as everybody else. If you want a leg up, you need to build it yourself. And you might as well go crazy. More &...
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diy wall decoration

i know it’s not DIY day yet, but i loved these wall decoration projects too much to wait until wednesday. photographer stephanie williams recently shot a lookbook for clothing company ruche that involved creating all sorts of playful backdrops for ...
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small measures with ashley: diy natural stress reducers

[image sources, clockwise from top left: tongue in cheek, tourism bc, thorny pup at flickr, the daily green, join my candle team, prevention.com]
There are certain times in a person’s life that are characterized by stress. Waiting to find out if yo...
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Cardboard Record Sleeve Doubles as Record Player [Record Player]






This is pure genius: Audio engineering company GGRP Sound sent a 45rpm record in a corrugated cardboard sleeve that doubles as a record player. You can put it together one single step. More »...
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DIY Steve Jobs Cheese Head Gets Real Creepy [Image Cache]






Hellooooo, weirdtown! Not only did someone go through the trouble of carving a giant Steve Jobs head out of mozzarella cheese, they've also given detailed instructions on how to make your very own. In thr...
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diy project: ikea blankö woven jute table

last week’s project really got me excited about woven materials. creating a simple weave is so easy (over, under, over, under…), but it creates amazing texture and a nice handmade touch. i spotted these new ikea blankö stools (so new they don...
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sewing 101: making a duvet cover

I don’t know about you, but I never cease to be shocked at the price of bedding. And nothing sets off my “I could make that myself so much cheaper and better” instincts like duvet covers. It’s just a big flat case of fabric, yet even the simplest options...
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