MAKE pal Natalie Zee has an awesome article on making your own phone trinkets and dangly things…if you aren’t into Hello Kitty or any of those cutesy characters, there is a more affordable alternative. As I started to use my phone more with the attached Chanel strap, I realized that this was something I could totally make myself. Women make jewelry all the time, why not cellphone jewelry? Link. Bonus link: The Flickr photo set.
This homebrew PSP application will generate a list of the 100 possible combinations for a Masterlock combination lock given the last digit in the code. Check out our HOW TO on running homebrew code. I loaded up the program using KXploit – here is a photo and here’s a link to download the PSP application.
Make your own freestanding PVC pipe bike rack, or lash it down in the back of your ute (aka pick-up). Fits in the back of your truck to carry three bikes in style. Time needed = about 1 hour. Total Cost = Under $20.Thanks Dan! Link.
Cavorting on a roundabout has always been fun for children. Now pure, clean borehole water can be pumped into water storage tanks while the playground roundabout equipment is in use. The Play-Pump is a specifically designed and patented playground roundabout that drives conventional borehole pumps, keeping costs and maintenance to an absolute minimum, while entertaining the children. [via] Link.
Gruel is basically a thin porridge or soup. The main forms of gruel include rice gruel, flour gruel and millet gruel. Other base ingredients you can boil include breadcrumbs or ground crackers. You can best understand it by making it for yourself. Here’s a simple recipe for flour gruel: 2 teaspoons of flour, 1 teaspoon of salt. Boil one cup water. Separately, drip water on flour and salt until it makes a paste. Add the paste to the boiling water. Stir to a semi-fluid consistency. Strain to eliminate film. Serve warm. Link.
Well said- Just because it doesn’t exist doesn’t mean you don’t need it. If you computer case doesn’t have enough lights on it to make you happy, then go ahead and put lights on it! (Or better yet build a case out of lights) If you don’t have a peephole on your front door, go and grab a drill and make it happen. If your Tivo can’t hold all of your favorite shows then add a hard drive and stop complaining. If your car doesn’t have an armrest in the middle, then find one in the junkyard and modify it to fit your car. Link.
You can carry GNU/Linux in your pocket with a functional, quick, and useful USB pen drive distribution. Pen drives are faster than CDs, and the small distros that fit on them don’t require huge amounts of memory for the operating system and applications. Slax is a powerful and complete bootable distro based on Slackware, equipped with kernel 2.6, ALSA sound drivers, Wi-Fi card support, X11-6.8.2 with support for many GFX cards and wheel mice, and KDE 3.4 Link.
