Getting Started So some of you may be wondering why would you build an e-bike when you can just pedal it. Well for one I like making things, two im going to college next year and I don't think I will have the energy in the morning to go out and bike a...

I've been living with an electric range for the past few months and it's terrible.. I can't control the heat and scraping baked on shit off of the glass top is terrible when it boils over. Best of all, the oven is busted because some guy came to fix it...

Hello people! It's Sharkiepie here, this is my little DIY gaming closet thread. Bare in mind, this is WIP, i'll update it everytime I do something new. Todo list; Put up my LED Lights: Tommorow Buy a new TV: Check mate. Put up the new TV: Done....

So basically I've been interested in making shit since I was small, but lack of tools and knowledge always put me off. Then like a year ago I had a workshop introductory course as part of my line of education in swedish equivelant of high school, it was...

Hello, I am ordering my first 3D printer next month. I'm gonna get the solidoodle2 pro because it's $600 and has a relativley large 6 cubic inch maximum print size. These things are so cool if you have one what have you been printing? I really like...

Hi, I'm fairly new to plants and I'd like to start a garden, probably with my dad when the hotter seasons come. Are there any good introductory books into plants and gardening? I'm a newbie, so a beginner's guide would be fantastic.

Would a 250PSI rated 12v compressor be suitable for a constant charge of a 140psi air tank in the boot of my car? The compressor is only a Crappy £20 one off ebay. I mean there is no time limit or anything, just would it handle it? And when I say...

If this is in the wrong section, please move it to the correct section. In a thread I made called "I need a hobby" a user by the name of ScottyWired suggested modeling, I decided to put it under consideration along with other idea's that users posted....

Hey, I've got a car sub of which I got bored in car and I was wondering how can I hook it up to my PC? All I have left from previous PC parts is a 200W server PSU. Which says: Output: +3.3V / 19.0A +5V / 19.0A +12V / 5.2A +5VSB / 1.5A -12V / 0.2A...

I looked into a hobby idea I thought of a while back to give em a break during down time between boat projects. I've been picking this up gradually as a hooby, but I have started renovating old (1940-1950s) bakelite tube radios. Mostly they arrive broken,...

So after the obvious fap joke, we get to rasterbation part. here are some tools used with Rasterbation: http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ - Takes some time and tedious if your trying to bet something spot on, but prints at full quality, no dots or...

Alternate thread title: What I did during my ban. Okay, so if you live in the Kamloops area you have all the radio stations broadcasting from the far end of the valley. The TV station is also one of the last in North America to still use analog VHF...

So i need to make a small vacuum chamber, because buying one would just be way too expensive. All I really need is a solid container and thick top to put the inlets/outlets on. I have no idea what materials would be strong enough for the task. I am trying...

So I ended up with a fancy RC transmitter a week or so ago. I went to Hobbytown looking for one of those cheap RC planes to mess around with, got this Flyzone Albatros D.Va. Only what they didn't tell me was it doesn't come with a controller, so I get...

Hello all. I have a question which I'm not sure would completely fit here, but it IS DIY and ya'll are creative when it comes to creation. So for an engineering project we were required to completely reverse engineer a desired assembly, and I chose a...

My house is on the older side, and with a short ceiling in the basement, there is little room to improve lighting by dropping the ceiling further. Is there a way I can get more light from the same units, but with more modern lighting fixtures in the same...

Just finished and tested/trimmed, only crashed a few times so far but it took it like a champ. I spent around 5 hours total in construction, fairly simple design, super light weight compared to what I normally fly. It's nearly 4 am and I need to get some...

Yes, I know everybody and there brother are building quadcopters/multirotors now, but w/e. I wanted something to build as a platform for electronics projects. I did a little bit of research before buying a FlySky 9X transmitter, LiPo charger, and a...

Although I'm not new to the DIY portion of life, I am having some issues making a small (4"x4"x4") paper box with taped corners. I think this ones going to take a trip to the hardware store. Any pointers? Ill post pictures when progress has been...

Hello, I decided to make an AC power supply with a control panel. The output will be around 6kVA, 25A at 240v. It will also feature a 2kVA 250v variac, for a total possible output of ~8kVA continuous. I imagine you could possibly run it at 10kVA for...

With the unfortunate passing of my mothers betta fish, and her testament to not get a new one (at least for now) we now are in the possession of an empty 2 gallon Fluval Spec. (http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=23778) Unsure...

We all know what time does on vintage equipment, mechanical ropes rot and break, now I'm trying to repair the tuner string, the tuner itself is working, but you can only tune the radio when the cover is off, not that handy and dangerous. There are a few...

I hope there's room in here for another Quadrotor build thread, I guess I'll find out! Anyways, after much deliberation, and a somewhat larger-than-anticipated tax return, I'm finally ready to go order a bunch of parts and make my first attempt at a...

I'm preparing to make a wall mounted ant farm. Here's the plan. I've ordered 2 sheets of plastic from here. One is 80mm thick, transparent. One is 40mm thick, bright green. Both around 1200mm by 600mm. The plan is to buy some lengths of wood, at...

the other day i made an oil lamp out of a light bulb which i ended up using part of a bottle cap and have some glass bottles aswell. you can probably make some oil lamps out of some glass bottles along with some neat gardening like things, or even...

About four to five years ago after breaking about a dozen headphones from various minor and major accidents, including one falling of the roof of an apartment building while i was at a party. I compelely gave up on buying headphones that wouldn't last a...

Okay, this is my first time I'm ever attempting some sort of DIY crafting. I've got this leftover sort of rack in my house lying about, and I thought I could really use it. But I'm inexperienced, so I intend to start out with a few herbs before anything...

So I'm going into MCC, basically that means I'm going to spend 10 days at a time in the wilderness of Montana and will have no access to electricity or plumbing of any kind. So I have a cooler, and I plan on placing in it my supplements; L-glutamine,...

I have some cacti that are too tall and growing out of their pots and I have some in need of bigger pots. Is there a way to cut the tall one? I also have four cacti all in the same pot and they're getting too big and are in need of their own pots, is...

I want to custom order a canvas print of a specific album cover and I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with custom order canvas? This is exactly what I am going for, same size and album art. I would contact the guy who made it, but I...

Hi Fp. Im wondering if I can take my ceiling fan, and buy shorter blades for it and bolt them back on? Thanks.

Problem My conservatory leaked over christmas. It had wooden floor in it. So obviously the wooden floor expanded and curved up and got ruined. Along with the skirting board. Solution I have decided to tile the floor so if there's another leak it...

Hello Facepunchers, as the title of this thread says, I want to re-arrange my room. Any suggestions on how to setup my room? My room is farely large, A wild guess of 4.50m by 6 meters or so? I got 5 pieces of furniture, including my wardrobe, a random...

This project is very early on in its creation, But I thought i would start to document its production. As a kid i had a mamod steam engine. Really good fun to watch and play with. I even used it to run some of my mecanno contraptions. Growing up i...

I recently saw a featured video on youtube of some guy shooting a PVC pipe bow. I thought it was awesome that he had made a bow out of PVC pipe and I've always been interested in archery so I'm having a go at it. This is the channel with the tutorials on...

Okay so I did it. I ACTUALLY did it. After months of hemming and hawwing and TONS of research, and even my dad buying me a tank, I just walked into my local reef store and bought literally EVERYTHING I needed. Here's a list of stuff so far. (1)...

This could probably go in the electrical engineering thread in the programming section, but I figured there's enough content to warrant a new one. Hopefully this will keep me motivated, I really want to get the construction done within a week before I...