Caterfall – DIY cat waterfall
VisionFoo made a simple automatic cat water fountain from an aquarium cascade pump – Link.
Month: July 2006
Controlled bleaching with discharge paste
Fungus amungus has a good instructable on using discharge paste for t-shirt designs – “Where bleach is incerdibly thin and can destroy natural fibers if you’re not careful, discharge paste is the opposite. It’s gooey so it doesn’t spill easily and can be used with silkscreens. It’s also nice to natural fibers, which is good […]
HOW TO – Photograph jewelry
Tabletop studio has some good tips and instructions on taking close up photos of jewelry (these techniques are good for other close ups of shiny things too)… – “Taking good quality pictures of jewelry for most is an unsolved mystery. However, there are some simple techniques used by the professional, which even amateur photographers can […]
DIY High heat alarm
ElectricJ writes – “This is a simple alarm that I made so that it would go off when the temperature of a deep freezer or other similair appliance got above a certain temperature in degrees. I thought that this would help by giving you a little bit of indication of when it was time to […]
Seat belt lawn chair…
Mark writes – “…still like the old-style aluminum folding lawn chairs-to me, as a bigger guy, they are much more comfortable than the new collapsible camp-style chairs being sold today. However, the old plastic or vinyl replacement webbing is nearly impossible to find, and if you are lucky enough to find it, it may be […]
Biquad WiFi antenna mod for better cell reception
Graeme writes – “Here’s how I got mobile phone reception where there was no signal – adapting Biquad WiFi antenna designs for use with UMTS (3G) mobile phone networks” – Link.
Shut down a DELL with a text message
Interesting, if you have a DELL Optiplex GX520 and put a cell phone near the CDROM drive as you receive a SMS/TXT (or perhaps a call) – it will shut down the computer – “The bug appears when you put your mobile phone close to the cd-rom unit of the dell and then recieve a […]
