I have a nephew who just turned 1 year old and his parents asked me to build him a busy board / activity center thing for him to play with. In this video, I show the busy board I built and discuss some of its features. Read on…
Busy Board
Category Archives: Make
Screen Printing
It’s not too difficult to screen print at home. In this video, I walk through the supplies and steps needed to screen print t-shirts and point out some helpful tips. This does require some special tools and supplies and does take some time but it allows you to print your own custom t-shirts, textiles, a papers. Read on…
PVC Canoe Cart
I recently bought a canoe but found it difficult to move it around by myself. In this video, I describe a wheeled cart I built out of PVC. The cart is different from other carts I’ve seen online because it allows me to move the canoe around right-side-up or upside-down. This cart would work equally well with a canoe or kayak. Updated 2/24/15 Read on…
Bike Desk
My fiancee likes to ride her bicycle on a trainer indoors during winter. She thought attaching a desk to the bike would be a great idea so she could use her computer or read a book while she rode but she wasn’t sure how to do it. I gave it some thought and figured out a clever way to make it happen. Read on for details or skip to the video.
DIY Cell Phone Antenna
Simple Frozen Fish Food
In this video, I show you how to quickly, easily, and cheaply make some DIY frozen fish food. This is a very simple recipe that I will be feeding to fish fry and other small fish. There are many other ingredients you could add. Do you have a favorite ingredient? Read on…
Piezo Pickup
I needed a way to tune monitor a washtub bass around other instruments and the mic on my tuner kept picking up the other instruments because they were louder than the bass. Plus, I wanted a way to record from a ukulele that didn’t have a pickup. So, I built a pickup from a piezo transducer. It was pretty easy, didn’t cost very much, and works surprisingly well. Read on…
Updated: 13 December 2011
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