Fantastic ideas for reusing your techno-junk, check out the winners of the Instructables dead computer contest, a few of which have been featured here at Make: Online before! More: How-To: Crane arm game Project excerpt: 62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer by Randy Sarafan How-To: Mad cyborg costume
I am glad that, so far, in life, I have not had to join the ranks of those umpty-many folks who, at one point or another, have suddenly found themselves needing to fill a whole lot of sandbags in a hurry. Hopefully, I will never be in that situation, but when and if I am, I’m going to try to remember this tutorial by Instructables user RiverOakRanch. The jig they describe allows one person to fill six tubes at once, helps to insure equal filling, and, most importantly, frees up another laborer who would otherwise have to stand there holding the bags open.
Check out this excellent instructable that shows you how to bend mains wire into a roller coaster track for a ball bearing. More: How ball bearings are made HOW TO – Make a ball bearing trampoline game Right on Track – Rolling Ball Sculpture
I dig this Cadillac Dystopic Lamp by Instructables user PopEye42, which does something I’ve been meaning to try myself for a long time–using cut 1L Perrier bottles as lampshades. I also like that the dimmer switch has a hose valve handle on it.
What do you do when your toddler’s having trouble reaching the buttons on the guitar for Beatles Rock Band? Why, modify it and make an Instructable, that’s what! Toddler’s Guitar Hero controller
Instructables user zieak upcycled some discarded keyboard circuit sheets into this attractively geeky document folder for his wife.
Is there anything you can’t build with an old blue barrel? Instructables user Kentucky-bum made this Frisbee golf target. More: Recycled barrel chair Weekend Project: Barrel Water Collector
