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How to Take Great Pictures
Learning how to take great pictures could take a lifetime. After all, photography is an art form and like all art forms, it takes time, patience and practice to master. There is not one clear path to...
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Build your own DIY solar powered mobile phone
This Instructables describes in detail how to build your own solar powered mobile phone. Linear Technology article discussing solar charging, using maximum power tracking - see extracts...
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Single Wheeled Bike Trailer
Tired of bumbling along single track trails with two tires on your trailer fighting for the track? Too full of pride to plunk down the dough for a store-bought one? Never again. With this instructable,...
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Gas to Electric GoCart Conversion - 150cc 2 seater gocart.
I have a 150cc 2 Seater gas gocart that I used for about 2 years. The starter motor stripped a gear 3 months ago and I decided to convert it to Electric Power rather than fix the gas engine.Parts...
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+Bow - Homemade Spring-Powered Nerf Rifle
SpecificationsLength: 36 inchesWeight: 2lbPlunger load: 18-32lbSpring load maximum: 38lbOptimal Barrel Length: 12 inchesPerformancePlunger rod has three notches affording different load rates which...
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Bring Dead Ni-Cad Batteries Back To Life
Are you tired of having your Ni-Cad batteries that refused to charge and simply die?So what do you do with them when they die? Just throw them in the trash - which harms the environment? Or just take...
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Build a solar hot dog cooker
This is a parabolic cooker I built a while ago, so unfortunately I can't show step by step photos of it's construction. However, it's relatively easy to see how it was put together. It makes a great...
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Ultimate Guide to Making a Cheap but Effective Aluminium Forge.
There are many guides and many ideas I've collected and, being that I completed this (the first one... I made a completely new setup just for this instructible... you should feel special.) within two...
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Make Your Own Miniature Electric Hub Motor
In-wheel electric drive motors represent an effective method of providing propulsion to vehicles which otherwise were not designed to have driven wheels. That is, they're great for EV hacking and...
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Concrete Countertops for the Kitchen - Solid Surface on the Cheap
So I wanted to redo the kitchen in my 1916 Foursquare and I was bored with all the countertop options. Unless you're getting formica, they all cost about the same as granite or marble, look just like...
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The New and Improved Brushless Electric Scooter Power System Guide
In 2008, I put together a guide on Instructables about upgrading the power system of your small personal electric vehicle . It was a primer on the basics of an electric vehicle power system and offered...
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Using SEO to increase an Instructable's views
Want to increase the traffic to your Instructables from search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo? This Instructable provides tips and hints on how to optimise your Instructables to boost them up...
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Homemade Mini Bend Brake
In this Instructable I will show you how I made a Mini Bend Brake to bend some 1/16" aluminum. I needed to make clean straight bends in strips of aluminum for my Hidden Bookshelf Light Switch. I had...
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New Guard for a Trouble or Work Light
This is my trouble light, also known as a work light. It needed a new guard to protect the bulb. I decided to make my own, even though I could have ordered one. My local hardware store did not have...
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Making a 3D print of a real object using 123D Catch and Meshmixer
Hi everyone! In this instructable, I'll be showing you (in some detail) how to a make a 3D printed copy of a real object, starting with capturing it with 123D Catch, refining it using Meshmixer, and...
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Wii Kart of Awesomeness - Instructable
Wii Kart Wii Kart is a wireless controlled go-kart with an off-the-shelf Wii Remote serving as the controller. Two 250 Watt DC motors provide a top speed of 15 mph. The Wiii Kart was built in a...
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Gas powered pencil sharpener- for students that spend the entire class...
Every now and then, a student will spend a big chunk of class making sure his/her pencil is SHARP. For some reason, after a particularly long day, I was vegging at my desk staring blank-eyed at my...
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A Preamplifier for Smartphone Oscilloscopes
I am a certified oscilloscope nut, who owns more of them than he needs and is always looking for another one. So when I learned that cheap scope and frequency analysis programs are available for...
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Polargraph Drawing Machine
This machine, a variation on the hanging-pen plotter is a conspicuous and wilfully naive attempt to break out of the pristine, pixel perfect, colour-corrected space that exists inside our computers....
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Marble Pump - 3D Print
This marble pump takes in marbles from one side of the mechanism and pops them out the other. It is intended to be used as the heart of more elaborate marble contraptions, pumping marbles up through a...
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Arduino controlled Ping Pong Balls Launcher
Hi everyone! This is a ping pong balls launcher designed to be controlled by an arduino. It uses a servo to dispense the balls and two motors with wheels to give speed and shoot them. All the pieces...
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How To Sand Cast 3D Printed Objects
As anyone with access to a 3D printer knows, it's relatively easy to print off custom designs from the printer in a few minutes or hours. However, many people come up short in how to translate...
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How to Judge a Contest
At this point you have been asked by the Instructables staff to help judge a contest. You may be a professional outside of the Instructables community, prolific author, or a past contest winner. Your...
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3d printed Cookies
3D PRINTED CHRISTMAS COOKIES Printer is a modyfied BFB Rapman extruder: UNFOLD Claystruder 1.1 thingiverse.com/thing:3604 software: Rhino , Skeinforge I expordet the file as a single surface to make...
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How to Talk to Someone Using Ham Radio
Ham radio is cool, but it can be very nerve-wracking to talk to someone on ham radio. Talking to someone on ham radio is commonly known as a 'QSO' or a 'contact'. Although it can seem really scary at...
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Rapid TP dispenser prank
To truly prank somebody, you have to catch them off-guard. And where are people most susceptible to surprise?... A small project motor and 9V battery power a pulley belt (rubber band) which is attached...
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3D Scan and duplicate yourself (or anything!)
Using an inexpensive XBOX Kinect (~$100) and a free piece of software (windows only, sorry), you can easily and quickly capture 3d models of people, and then send them to your 3d printer to make little...
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Solid Model of a Pumpkin
Just in time for Halloween, this solid model of a pumpkin will make a great base model for you to modify for all of you 3D printed Jack-o'-lanterns. This model was created by making a single loft...
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How to make air muscles!
I needed to create some actuators for an animatronics project I'm working on. Air muscles are very powerful actuators that work very similar to a human muscle and have a phenomenal strength to weight...
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Choosing a 3D modeling software for 3D printing
At our MakerSpace, I am often asked for advice about what should someone use in order to create 3D objects for 3D printing. There is not just one single answer because it depends on a few parameters so...
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Low cost linear actuator for cnc xy table and alike!
Creating a good linear actuator for your personal 3D printer or cnc machine is never easy. Either you try to incorporate lucky eBay finds in your design, which isn’t very dependable as a source for...
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