Daily DIY

Are the big contest deadlines too far away? Want some instant gratification? Want to win a robot t-shirt? Here’s your chance!



We’re running another 1-week speed contest: the Inst…


By: canida

Just looks cool. Take sume pennies or any other type of coin currency and make one stack of them!







MAterials-



Pretty easy-



All you will need are some pennies, glue, and a large binder clip.







Gluing the pennies



First step- take one penny and put a little dab of glue on it. then, make a sandwic…


By: Denial94

This is the workbench we designed and built for the apartment living room. The workbench needed to allow us to work on our electronics projects either standing or sitting on a stool. We also needed to build a workbench that would come apart easily enough to make moving it bearable. This same basic d…


By: splendidus

I’m a product designer, videogame geek, and apartment hobbyist. I got bitten by the MAME arcade bug, and needed to get a wedding present for friends Dorothy and Arvon, so I decided to design and construct an arcade cabinet that would be unobtrusive and could hopefully become a family heirloom.



Usin…


By: mydian_nightshade

Teach those moochers a lesson, and push their drink off the table!





Supplies Needed

2 drink pouches , identical one full one empty

1 switch like device (i used alligator clips instead you can use whatever you have on hand)

1 Vibrating motor (I got mine out of a ps2 dual shock controller, you can bu…


By: unununium

Tablet PCs are hot. In early 2007, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, no less than three landmark tablets made their public debut:

• Flybook A33i - an 8.9-inch foldable touch screen computer by Holbe Dialogue Europe; $2…


By: PSdp

Firefox only: Just posted an upgrade to Lifehacker’s own Better Flickr Firefox extension, which adds extra functionality to our favorite photo-sharing web application, Flickr.

This update fixes a MAJOR bug in 0.1 with disabling features (oops), and adds 4 more fabulous scripts that offer HTML controls on comment boxes, handy user and photos size links and rollover access to photo metadata. After the jump, see the new features in action and grab the download.

Note: Current Better Flickr users can use Firefox’s Add-ons dialog box in the Tools menu to upgrade to the newest version; just hit the Find Updates button.

Better Flickr version 0.2’s new features include:

That’s just the new features, you see. See Better Flickr’s full option set and download the latest version at its homepage. As always, bug reports, script addition requests, suggestions, criticism and adulation are all welcome in the comments.

A vacuum pump is just an air pump, like a compressor, where you use the input side for suction, rather than using the output side for blowing.



Many air compressors make good vacuum pumps if you can find the air intake, enclose it, and attach an appropriate hose or fitting.



In this instructable, I…


By: drcrash

Web app Screencast-O-Matic lets you quickly create and host video screencasts (with audio) in a jiffy.

All you need to do is head to the web site, click on Create, choose your capture size, audio preferences, and then hit Go! Screencast-O-Matic runs a Java applet that handles the screen captures, and though it could use a little work smoothing things out around the edges, it’s really easy to use (check out my done-in-a-minute demo here). We’ve covered free screencasting apps before (like Wink and CamStudio), but Screencast-O-Matic shows a lot of promise, would be great for quickly creating and sending simple instructions to your less computer-literate friends or family, and since it runs through a Java web applet, it works on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers.

Windows only: The Picasa2Flickr plugin adds a button to Picasa that lets you directly upload selected pictures to your Flickr account from the comfort of Picasa.

If you’re a Flickr die-hard who’s love for Picasa has turned your eyes to the Picasa Web Albums more than once, this little plugin adds the same simple one-click upload capability for Flickr. It’s currently not the prettiest implemenation the world has ever seen, but it works like a charm. Picasa2Flickr is free, Windows only, requires Picasa and Java.