Build a Lightsaber NO NEW LIGHTSABERS FOR ME RIGHT NOW becuase - UPDATE: I've been super busy taking part in Dallas Red Bull Flugtag. I am part of Team Dworks. So you have decided to take the final step to embracing the force. Does your path follow the Light or the Dark side? What ever side you are on, what follows is how to make a Duel-Worthy Lightsabre. Total cost of this project is $60 to $1,000 USD. The Video: NOTE 1: This Instructable is very TEXT intensive. NOTE 2: Most of the parts used in this tutorial came from The Custom Saber Shop (TCSS). * The author of this instructable is not responsible for property damage, personal injury, amputation of limbs, decapitation, and/or death resulting from the building and use of the lightsaber prop.
How to Pick the Right Electronics Board for Your DIY Project Derek on Cast Iron - Cast Iron Recipes: campfire cooking Camp dutch oven cooking involves applying heat from two directions: the bottom and the top. This dual heating, when done properly, simulates the even heat of a real oven. I do all of my camp dutch oven cooking over a campfire (as opposed to using charcoal briquettes). To my mind, charcoal briquettes are just one more thing to buy, another thing to pack, and are loaded with additives like coal dust, sodium nitrate, borax, parrafin, and other petroleum products. If you search around for camp dutch oven recipes, you'll find that the vast majority of them use charcoal briquettes. But these days, a lot of home barbequers (myself included) are using hardwood lump charcoal instead of briquettes. Here's how it works: Preparing the Fire RingsBegin by preparing two fire rings. Depending on where you're camped (and the flammability of the ground surrounding your fire pit) your "cooking" fire ring may simply be a patch of ground next to the main fire ring. The Perfect Campfire for Dutch Oven Cooking
How to Make a Christmas Cracker If you have a bunch of spare toilet paper tubes lying around, you're in luck this holiday season. With wrapping paper, a couple trinkets, and a pack of cracker snaps, you can make your very own Christmas crackers. Traditionally used in holiday celebrations in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, Christmas crackers are party favors that when pulled apart, produce a snapping sound and contain small trinkets such as candy, a deck of cards, toys, slips of paper with jokes written on them, paper Christmas crowns, and other small knickknacks. Usually, two people pull on opposite ends of the cracker. If you're in a big holiday gathering, you can simultaneously pull your Christmas crackers apart in a big circle, with everyone crossing their arms and holding his or her own cracker in the left hand and the adjacent person's cracker in the right hand. Click on image to enlarge.
DIY Cardboard Rocket Ship and Space Play Ideas - One Time Through Welcome to another week of the Love to Learn Linky! This week – we’re all about Rocket Ships and SPACE! We’ve got a simple tutorial for a cardboard rocket ship which you can easily make in under 15 minutes for spacey imaginative fun, space book recommendations for young children, and 15 out of this world ideas for space-themed play! Amazon Affiliate links are included in this post. I don’t know what kicked it off, but my 3 1/2 year old son, Onetime is definitely really interested in space right now. His favourite TV show is Space Racers and apparently, he was telling his daycare teacher the other day about the International Space Station! She seemed really surprised, but I wasn’t at all. The only thing I can think of is that I read him a few awesome space books (see below), he latched onto a couple of ideas, and the interest began to grow. Space Books for Young Children Touchdown Mars! Onetime really likes all of the books in this fun machines series by Tony Mitten. does not disappoint.
DIY Sriracha a.k.a. Rooster Sauce Impress your Chili Head friends by busting out a bottle of this DIY Sriracha Chile Sauce! Sriracha as we know it today has been popularized by Huy Fong Foods and their big red "rooster" bottle (complete with a giant rooster logo and bright green cap, making it easy to identify in your fridge). But the sauce has a rich history and is named after a coastal city in central Thailand's Chonburi Province "Si Racha". Here is a version you can make in your own kitchen. It's not as spicy as the Huy Fong version, but it gives you major street cred -- especially if you bust out these swing-top stopper bottles with hand-carved chili-pepper stamp. This sauce has a great, addicting flavor -- hot, sweet and garlicky -- and just like the real "Rooster Sauce", it tastes awesome on just about anything. (recipe adapted from The Sriracha Cookbook by Randy Clemens) Ingredients: **Gloves** 1 3/4 pounds Fresno Chili Peppers, Red Jalapenos or Red Serrano ( I used Fresno) 3 Thai Chili Peppers 1 tbsp light brown sugar
5 ways to help our disappearing bees In the spring and summer, thoughts naturally turn to the birds and the bees. Except, the bee seems to be in trouble. You've probably heard about colony collapse disorder (CCD) or vanishing bee syndrome, the mysterious and rather dramatic die-off of domesticated honeybees in Europe and North America. Scientists aren't really sure what's going on yet. All that's known for sure is our bee colonies are suddenly disappearing. Affected bees simply leave the hive and don't come back, making diagnosis of the problem even more difficult. In some areas, losses of honeybees are reported to be as high as 75 percent. So what could be happening here? Few of us are research scientists capable of chipping in some lab time to help out, but there are some things we can all do to assist honeybee and natural bee populations close to home. Plant things that bees like Bees particularly like clover. Bees are all about pollen. The good news here is that bee-friendly plants are easy to grow. Provide bee habitat
The Dearthbox: A low-cost, self-watering planter If you already own most of the cutting tools and the drill, this instructable costs about $13-15. We got everything at Home Depot, but you can find similar stuff at any hardware store. Materials pictured: 2 big paint buckets that stack (~5 gallons each)1 lid1 plastic tub OR drain grate (The height of the tub/drain grate should be approximately the same height as the gap between the two buckets when stacked)1 2' long 1" diameter plastic pipe (make sure it is longer than the height of the buckets when stacked)*1 mesh baggie (find them as packaging for fruit, veggies, other stuff!) Tools pictured: drill with 1 inch bit and 1/4" masonry bitutility knife with extra bladesrounded filesawpermanent markertarp (collects all the plastic bits!) Not pictured: black plastic garbage bagsseedlings or established plantspotting mixcompostfertilizer *I've read different things about using PVC after making this first version, which does use PVC.
Turn Any Wall Portrait into Your Own Personal Scooby Dooish "Eye" Spy Surveillance System Remember how the bad guys in Scooby Doo would always use cut-out portraits to spy on people through walls? Well, unless your landlord is super cool, you probably shouldn't start cutting holes in your wall just yet, but you can make a higher tech version, thanks to NASA employee Mark Rober. Mark used a cheap picture frame and a portrait with the eyes cut out to make the "Scoob Cam," which also doubles as a surveillance device. He used an iPhone and an iPad to start a FaceTime chat, then taped the iPhone to the back of the picture frame (where the eyes in the portrait are). The iPad is used as the surveillance aspect, so when you watch the feed, it records your eyes and displays them on the iPhone in the portrait, so wherever you look is where the portrait seems to be looking. Check out the video for details on the setup. For a similar, but cheaper prank, try this creepy motion-sensing portrait with glowing red eyes that light up when someone gets close.
Galaxy Dough {Play Recipe} | Growing A Jeweled Rose Rosie and Jewel got a telescope for Christmas, and they have been having so much fun exploring the night sky. To extend that interest I whipped up a batch of GALAXY DOUGH for them. This dough is really easy to make and so fun! It is super smooth, ultra sparkly, and REALLY stretchy. Needless to say it is quite hard to put down. Galaxy Dough Recipe {For all the best kids activities follow Growing a Jeweled Rose on Pinterest and Facebook} This play material requires no cooking and can be made in just a few minutes. Materials (affiliate links provided) 2 cups of flour1/2 cup of salt1 & 1/2 cups of boiling water2 tbsp of baby oil2 tbsp cream of tartarBlack food coloring {or liquid watercolors}3-5 drops of GlycerinGlitter (we used purple, sliver, gold, & red) Note: You can find glycerin in the health & beauty section of most stores or online here. Method That's it! This dough is so silky & fun! A Few Tips: You will need to use a lot of food coloring to get a rich, black color. Love it?
How To Build A Fireball You Can Hold Video Jon Lech Johansen's blog MagicPlay is an open cross-platform audio streaming standard (think “HTTP for music”) that supports synchronized streaming to multiple speakers (like Sonos). For more details, see this Verge story. In the near future you’ll be able to buy WiFi speakers, TVs and other products that come with MagicPlay support out of the box. If you want to try MagicPlay right now, you can turn an existing device such as the Raspberry Pi into a MagicPlay device and stream music to it using doubleTwist Music Player for Android. Prerequisites: Raspberry Pi ($43) running Raspbian LinuxOptional: USB sound card for better quality (the integrated sound card on the Raspberry Pi has an annoying crackle bug)SpeakersAndroid phone or tablet running Android 4.1 or higher If you would like to skip building the source code, you can download a binary package instead. 1. 4. The MagicPlay service (/etc/init.d/magicplayd) has now been installed and will automatically start on boot.
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