Daily DIY

One of the problems with macro mode on many digital cameras is the flash washes out details. The best way to control this is, of course, to avoid using the flash or us an accessory light like the one Whiteoakart linked to in the brilliant instructable http://www.instructables.com/id/EREFVJIHC1EQHO9ZEU/. However if you do need flash, and your cheap POS camera has poor flash metering here’s what to do.



First you’ll need

1(one) Cheap Digital Camera

1(one) sheet mailing labels

1(one) pair scissors




By: Tool Using Animal

All that is needed for this project is a old power adapter and a christmas light postfrom a string of christmas lights with the color light bulb of your choice, some eletric tape or heat shrink and a wire striping tool. CAUTION: do not use a red colored bulb as red is known to cause agression in some species of fish.


By: NaTeB1

i got tired of not being able to see my keyboard so i thought i’d post what i did.


By: Jack Daniels

Create interior auto lighting for cheap using parts lying around your house plus some leds. Sorry for lack of pictures this is my first instructable.


By: shsh75

In this instructable, I’ll show you how to install bias lighting on your LCD monitor. Bias lighting can really help to improve your perception of contrast, and make panel monitors much easier on the eyes.


By: bowdie

Something a little more professional looking than a bunch of foam board stuck together… Costs about $40 bucks.


By: mr2monster

Install this lighted door handle and your roommate will know when the coast is clear, or when you’re doing the bouncy bouncy with that babe from across the quad. The handle glows red or green, which you select using a small lever underneath.

Too bad it requires a power outlet to operate, and doesn’t use a highly efficient combination of long-lasting batteries and low-voltage light. But this is no cheap thing, nor is it easy to install; its $440 price tag probably will confine its use to luxo-sport cribs or the bathroom just off the boss’s corner office. – Charlie White

Door handle [Bim Bam Banana, via Gadget Candy]

This digitized couch was designed by a UK’er and has the ability to tell when a girl is not interested in you. It may be apparent to everyone around you because of your wretched BO, bad teeth, ugliness, etc, but finally you will know when you are not wanted because the couch lights up blue patterns. Using electroluminescent technology and pressure sensors the couch will know where the two persons are sitting and if it is far apart the blue patterns will light up. Once the lady gets drunk enough to become attracted to you, the couch will switch to more passionate red patterns showing that the two persons are together, canoodling. – Travis Hudson

Couch Counseling [The Cool Hunter]

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Instructables user nak has added a DIY guide for converting a solar garden walkway light into a solar bike light.
“Modify a solar garden walkway light into a solar powered bike light that charges during day riding and can be turned on at night!
Needed:
1. Solar Garden Light (G15439)
2. LED Lamp, from flashlight, […]

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Instructables has a mod on the usual LED Throwie to support MORSE CODE! Now you can talk to the 0.01% of the population that actually knows morse code with your LED Throwie:
“During the 2006 Maker Fair the Graffiti Research Lab was demoing their LED Throwies and Pat & Ward Cunningham were demonstrating […]