DIY Projects

Papercraft cars…

Papercraft cars…

500 Fiat
Here’s a pretty good group of paper templates you can download, print and make your own papercraft car. The site is not in english, but it’s pretty easy to figure out and best of all – it has a lot of paper cars I haven’t seen on other sites, like 5 different types of Fiats. Link.

The .77 CVS camera helmet mount

The $2.77 CVS camera helmet mount

Mountpreview-1 Cory writes “I got a CVS disposable video camera a few weeks ago with the idea that I would use it to make some videos of local trails to put up on my site. I also saw a nice howto for mounting the camera to a helmet that inspired me. The howto I saw involved drilling the helmet, and I did not want to do that, so I came up with my own design. My mount design is simple, easy to mount and dismount, does not destroy the helmet or affect the balance of the helmet, and is very cheap.” Link.

The Macquarium

The Macquarium

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We’ve covered other Macs made in to aquariums before – and here’s another great one using a Mac plus. The site details the choice of tank, lights activated via the Mac keyboard, heater and lot of interesting Mac-meets-aquarium hacks. The entire thing even fits inside the case. Thanks Liz! Link.

Cardboard PC case…

Cardboard PC case…

Lupo
This is really clever, it’s an all cardboard PC case, you pop out all the perforated sections, fold it up and install your PC parts. With millions of PCs thrown away each year, this could potentially be a great way to cut down on the waste. While this one from Japan looks a little dull, there is a lot of art projects that use cardboard boxes, it’s just a matter of time until these look extremely cool and perhaps will be artwork on their own. [via] Link.

Cheap R2D2 baby costume

Cheap R2D2 baby costume

R2-Fat-Thumb Joe writes “So I was sitting around thinking of what our soon-to-be-born kid should be for Halloween this year. I thought that an R2D2 costume would look pretty cute, so I decided to make an iron-on for a onsie. It turned out pretty good, so I want to share it. Print this on an iron-on transfer. Iron it on a onsie. Bam! Cheap baby costume.” Link.