Microwave Science Experiments - Will it blow up? What can we stick in?...
MITERS is a creative heaven for MIT inventor types and practical physicists. We have build parties every Friday at 7 in N52-115, and anyone is welcome to come check it out and build something. This...
View ArticleHow to Clean Motorcycle Carburetors
This free motorcycle was sitting in David Durlach's garage for 20 years.David eventually tired of it, and gave it to Prank, who cleaned out the brake lines and added a new battery. Then winter...
View ArticleInstant Bike Tire Repair - No tools!
This is a butt-saving trick! Thanks to Mars for teaching me in the nick of time! Do you ever get a flat tire while you're in a bike shop, right there with all your tools? No! You get flat tires on the...
View ArticleHandy Tricks: World Traveler Edition
So you want to go to mysterious exotic foreign land X. What's the best way to travel? What have other people learned? How do you have the most fun? This is a big collection of handy tricks and ideas...
View ArticleHow to Climb a Tree (with prussiks!)
Once you can climb a tree, you can climb the world!I wanted to learn to climb up stuff using rope, so I selected this fabulous tree on a street in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, and climbed it!The theory is...
View ArticleSurrealist Human Hand Stick Shifter!
Here's how to cast your hand, and totally rock out your car's stick-shifter! This is sort of in the spirit of donnauwanna's silicone breast squishy toy, in that I thought it would be awesome if people...
View ArticleHow to Skin a Badger
Drive to Burning Man. Hit a badger on the road on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation. It ran in front of us so fast I didn't know whether to turn left or right. I just yelled really loud and woke Star...
View ArticlePlastic Smithing: How To Make your own HDPE Plastic Anything (DIY plastic...
How to make really good hard plastic while reusing and recycling plastic bags at home! Via this method, you can make ANYTHING you want to, out of hard, lightweight, real plastic that's astoundingly...
View ArticleStylish and Practical Lamp
Here's how to make a stylish and practical room light! Problem: The overhead light in my dorm room is too dim and useless. Solution: Replace it with something more functional, and of my own design!...
View ArticleHow to Pack: Shipping Big Science
So, say you have a $20 million dollar science experiment, and you need to ship it to somewhere like Antarctica. How do you do it??? The KECK2/BICEP radio telescope project here, at Harvard, needed to...
View ArticleFound: Kelp Poi
free poi! on the beach! no, not the kind you can eat! Billy and I were walking near the Sutro baths, and found all this handy kelp!By: stasteriskContinue Reading »
View ArticleThe Sunshine Alarm
Not to be confused with the biological warfare whistleblower's group, the Sunshine Project. This is an alarm clock that wakes you up with light! All Electronics was selling a whole pile of 125VAC...
View ArticleMake a Breadboard Sweatshirt (Instant Wearable Electronics!)
Are wearable electronics The Future? I think so! Here's the quickest, most versatile wearable electronics project ever, The Breadboard Sweatshirt. Mostly, wearables involve conductive thread for...
View ArticleLoft Beds in tEp
Photos from Batman,History from Perlick.Yes, a bit of history on those ephemeral pieces of Tau Epsilon Phi's architecture, those space-economizing sleep platforms...Instructable-ized by Star Simpson...
View ArticleInstant Bike Tire Repair - No tools!
This is a butt-saving trick! Thanks to Mars for teaching me in the nick of time! Do you ever get a flat tire while you're in a bike shop, right there with all your tools? No! You get flat tires on the...
View ArticleHow to Open Doors with an L-Slide
L-Slides are neat, simple tools that can let you open a closed door. Locked out? L-slide!By: stasteriskContinue Reading »
View ArticleOpen a Wine Bottle in the Wilderness
Stuck in the desert with a bottle of wine and no wine opener? Problem solved!By: stasteriskContinue Reading »
View ArticleMake Your Own Sandblaster and How To Use It
Need to make your blue jeans more stylish? Want a gorgeous frosty finish on metals or glass? Want to paint to stick to something? Mr. Sandblaster is your answer! Make one today - it's really easy!...
View ArticleHow to Build a Campfire
So, campfires are the best. They're warm, they give off light, they keep bugs away and they're great for cooking. This instructable is all about how to start a campfire with photos from our roadtrip to...
View ArticleHow to Make an Emergency Hex Key / Allen Wrench
If you need an allen wrench in a pinch, you can use this trick to tide you over until you find a real one. I used this to tighten down my bike seat and ride it a few miles home to a real hex set.By:...
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