DIY Projects

Ikea kitchen hack: in-board bowl

Ikea kitchen hack: in-board bowl

From the MAKE Flickr pool: user Queen Esoterica hacked her Ikea kitchen butcher block counter to include a bowl. She writes: You shove cut stuff into the bowl (I tend to cut right to left). then you can take the bowl to wherever you’re cooking and then brush the trash into the (soon to be […]

High-pitched nuisance device

High-pitched nuisance device

Quoth the Raven: This is a little device that I designed for the simple purpose of being discreetly annoying. It waits for a predetermined amount of time, and then it starts emitting high-pitched beeps. I have programmed mine to take advantage of an interesting property of sound. That is, in general most people above the […]

Multitool keys

Multitool keys

If you carry a lot of keys and don’t like that jingle-jangle in your pocket or on your ‘biner, this may be the solution. Instructables user pyro22 figured out how to embed keys in a mini multitool. Leave the tools you want, replace the others with keys! And, of course, you still have your pliers. […]