MacGyver
The name says it all. This category is all about the crazy and wonderful solutions people come up with in a pinch – it’s all about the Mother of Invention, baby.
By Harold on July 26, 2010
Posted in DIY, MacGyver, Technology | Tagged DIY, iPod, MacGyver |
Another useful DIY from instructables could help you resurrect your old iPod without having to shell out FRN’s for a new one.
Via member bryceronie
If you have a broken ipod , with a business card and five minutes it will be fixed!
I enjoy instructionables that are easy to do , short to complete, and will work [...]
By Ben on May 20, 2010
Posted in DIY, Featured Posts, MacGyver, Shelter | Tagged Bob, camping, glue, instructional, makeshift shelter, rope, tarp, teepee, tipi, wilderness |
This is another great how-to from my online buddy, Bob. He is a genuinely self-sufficient soul, living off the grid somewhere on the North American continent.
This time around, Bob breaks down the art and science of building a quick-and-easy teepee (tipi).
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A few days before Christmas I had a sudden hankering for a Teepee. Don’t ask [...]
By Harold on May 19, 2010
Posted in MacGyver | Tagged balloon, condom, fire, firestarting, plastic, survival, wilderness |
A cool technique to start a fire MacGyver style if you have no matces or lighter. Using a condom, balloon or plastic, create a spherical shape to focus sunlight in. These items will have a shorter focal length so will need to hold them 1 to 2 inches form your tinder.
By Harold on May 5, 2010
Posted in DIY, Featured Posts, MacGyver, Privacy | Tagged big brother, cctv, clothing, infrared, infrared LED, LED, Privacy, surveillance, video camera |
“Big Brother” surveillance systems are growing across the globe at an alarming rate, some people believe it makes them safe, while others believe their privacy is being violated.
This step-by-step article will show you how to cheaply make an IR (infrared) LED mask, that will shield your image to the camera with a bright white [...]
By Harold on May 4, 2010
Posted in MacGyver | Tagged liquor boxes, moving, reuse, thrifty |
Spring is the start of moving season, so I thought I would recommend a tip I learned from my latest moving experience a few years back. A friend suggested that I use boxes from liquor stores to pack with, because they are free and sized perfectly for moving and storing. Alleys behind liquor stores usually [...]
By Ben on April 5, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Food, MacGyver, Physical | Tagged apartment, gardening, herbs, planters, plants, tomatoes, upside-down-planter, urban |
Just because you’re short on space, doesn’t mean you have to be short on home-grown produce. The upside-down planter is a low-maintenance, small-footprint method of growing tomatoes and similar plants.
The links below cover different ways to construct these DIY planters, in different sizes, shapes, and looks. Of course, if you’d rather buy one pre-made, there [...]
By Ben on April 5, 2010
Posted in Abstract, Art, Guns and Ammo, MacGyver, Physical | Tagged Adi Zaffran, bullets, jewelry, reuse, tips box |
Designer Adi Zaffran Weisler is a student at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
He has created a set of amazing and thought-provoking rings out of spent bullets:
The rings that were created remove the bullet from its original function and they surprisingly turn into a bejeweled object and emphasize the beauty and aesthetics of [...]
By Ben on April 5, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, MacGyver, Physical, Power | Tagged alternative energy, DIY, how-to, water-power, waterwheel |
An older episode of Planet Mechanics I watched recently inspired me to find out more about the subject of water-power-generated electricity.
I had always conceptualized such devices as being reliant on enormous volumes of water in order to get the job done; but the solution that Dick and Jem devised in the episode made use of [...]
By Ben on March 4, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, MacGyver, Physical, Water | Tagged beer bottle uses, China, solar water heater |
This is the sort of ingenuity that makes me smile.
A Chinese peasant has made a solar water heater – using only beers bottles and hoses.
The beer bottles lie on a board in rows, all connected by hoses which allow cold water to flow through them and be heated by the sun.
By Ben on March 3, 2010
Posted in MacGyver, Physical, Tools | Tagged duct tape, hammocks, lifehacker, rfid, warts |
If the DIY community had a universal symbol, it most certainly would be a roll of duct tape. Inexpensive, abundant, strong, and ready to stick to nearly anything, this versatile DIY companion is a must in your DIY toolkit.
This LifeHacker post list some of the best (and most unusual) ways people have made use of [...]
