DIY Projects

Milk crate jerky maker

Milk crate jerky maker

Tim writes – “Everyone loves jerky. Not everyone can afford it. Here’s how to make your own with what you’ve got handy…The bottom milk crate has a 40 watt lightbulb in a fixture that keeps it away from the plastic. A little fan scavenged from an old PC blows on it and makes the air […]

Fix an Xbox… with a mint tin

Fix an Xbox… with a mint tin

Dirkus writes – “This altoids tin can help you replace an Xbox’s hard drive without any pesky modifications to the Xbox. It reads the EEPROM off in a fraction of a second, so you can feed it to whatever Xbox drive restoring/locking program you’re using and drop a new drive in the console and get […]

PCB creation process

PCB creation process

Bob posted up a follow up to the previous PCB post – his photo resist PCB process – “Don’t be scared away with this method. It’s easy! The only thing I do different is I use regular ordinary fluorescent lights ($8.00 at WalMart for a small fixture with bulb). Exposure times go from 90 seconds […]