Dance Away Your Paternity Anxieties With DIY “Billie Jean” Shoes

If you have a pair of hard-soled shoes, two pressure-sensitive LED tiles, and some baby mama drama from which you need to extricate yourself, let this Instructable be your guide and recreate the special-FX steps from Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”.


February 20, 2010

Ikea Lamp Used To Make Slide Projector To Bore Friends With

Don’t try and hide that Leksvik table from me, I can recognise Swedish wood from a hundred miles away. We all own Ikea furniture, it’s as certain as death and taxes. But not everyone makes a projector from a lamp.


January 17, 2010

How Could This DIY Light Suit Not Improve Your Weekend?

This may not necessarily be the most practical DIY, but if you’re looking – I mean really looking – at that picture and you’re not thinking “I want to go to there,” well, I just don’t know what to tell you.


October 8, 2009

DIY: When LED Throwies Meet Mouse Taxidermy

Say your pet rat dies. Instead of trashing it, you could shove LED throwie lights into its eye-sockets in a decorative taxidermy experiment that’s as creative as it is graphically morbid. It might be what little Snowy would have wanted.


July 22, 2009
Cameras

How To Build A Snorricam, So You Can Film Your Face

Hey, narcissists and/or filmmakers! Instructables has a guide to making your own Snorricam, that chest-mounted camera holder that points the lens directly at your own face.


July 10, 2009
Gadgets

Altoids Tin Catapult Will Make You Feel, And Act, 10 Years Old Again

Here’s an Instructables to bring back the obnoxious kid that lives not so far down in all of us: Learn how to turn one of those miniature Altoids tins into a tiny catapult. It’ll be fun for nobody but you.


Cameras

How To: Make A Fisheye DSLR Lens For $US16

Over at Instructables, user Banjomaster shows how to make a fisheye lens for his Nikon D90 for just $US16, with the help of one of those wide-angle doorway peephole lenses.


June 21, 2009

DIY Voice Modulator Makes Everybody Do The Robot (or At Least Sound Like One)

This DIY project takes common parts, including a clock from IKEA and a fluorescent desk lamp, and turns them into this sweet robot voice modulator that makes even the most emotional, dramatic vocals seem cold and calculating.


February 26, 2009
Gadgets

Let Your Hello Kitty Watch Be All It Can Be

On its own, the Hello Kitty McDonalds watch is yet another landfill-bound plastic chotchke. Not very green thinking. Luckily, Instructables has put together a handy how-to for turning yours into a cool custom timepiece.


July 18, 2008
Gaming

Guitar Hero and Rock Band Controller Mod For Finicky Fingers

Guitar Hero fans usually hate the Rock Band guitar controller and vice versa. Instructables has a pretty good how-to that can solve the problem for Guitar Hero fans at the cost of a Rock Band controller. It’s a way to mash up an old PS2 Guitar Hero controller with the Rock Band Fender guitar and make a perfect hybrid with raised keys a clicky strum. You could just use an Xbox 360 Guitar Hero controller for Rock Band if you’re on an, but where’s the fun in that? [Instructables]