HOW TO – Stretch a canvas…
Quick and easy how to on Apartment therapy “Stretching a canvas is easy. You take four planks of wood, make a rectangle and pull the canvas over it. (Or pay framing stores a lot of money to do it for you…). Before you get frustrated starting from scratch get ready made heavy duty stretcher bars (best & cheapest:Utrecht Art Supplies). Their ends fit together so precisely that you don´t need glue or nails. Asembly time for the perfect rectangle: 60 seconds.” [via] Link.
Remember that guy who added a generator and a window sill 
GThing has some interesting photos on Flickr, the first is a homemade ECG that appears to send signals through a keyboard. Next up, the Posterity Eradicator, a unique device that will ensure years of trouble free non-reproduction. It’s cell phone that directs the harmless/ful radiation directly at your lap or skull, depending on how you wear it. There’s also a cigar box guitar and retro phone headset if you poke around too, neat stuff! 
MAKE pal Roger Ibars has a great blog with all of his student’s work..I really like the serial zapper – “This is a defensive weapon against the threat of TV-set…Put «serial zapper» in front of your ennemy, Take the gun from the case, Walk backwards 20 feet (depends from the distance of your sofa) and shoot the right target to change channel, volume or to turn the TV off.” 
Chris writes – “This is my (our) first modification. We got the inspiration from