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Assemble Your Own Pen is too much DIY
slipperybrick.com —
I thought that buying prepackaged goods was supposed to make life easier, but I guess I was wrong. However those who are completely obsessed with DIY will probably appreciate this and find it fun. The Falter 2D pen makes you work to have your pen and write with it.
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5 barrel shotgun
xavierthoughts.blogspot.com — It's hard to believe some Bubba from Czechoslovakia built this thing from copper pipe, but what it more incredible is someone actually shot it. It's a break open rig, and it appears to be a 12 gauge. The apparent cylinder is merely a reinforcement of the chambers. Each barrel has it's own firing pin. The real question is whether the ...More ( Guns )
Amazing wood gunswatch!
Check out these working guns made out of wood. The 900 rubber bands / minute is pretty impressive
More ( Guns )Homemade Rocket Launcherwatch!
With a few household chemicals and a PVC pipe these kids build there very own rocket launcher.
More ( Guns )Fire - More than one way to cook a dog
ssrsi.org — Fire - Man's best friend, or dreaded enemy. Article details the how to's.More ( Survival )
caericHomemade laser tag makes laser tag that much dorkier
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Laser tag is one of those sweet activities that, while fun, isn't enjoyed all too often due to the necessary equipment often being a bit too expensive. Well, you're an industrious and handy individual. What's stopping you from just making your own equipment.
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DIY Pink Pedal-Powered Tank Shoots Hotdogs and Water
uberreview.com — This pink camouflage monstrosity that you before you is truly a work of DIY art. For one thing, it is constructed from junkyard parts, for another it is pedal-powered and uses nitrous oxide to pepper onlookers with vaporized hotdogs, or water for that matter. It is almost too much awesomeness for one package. The man responsible is a 30-year-old from ...More ( Military )
Incredibly Dangerous Home-Made Wrist Mounted Flame Throwerwatch!
Student Everett Bradford is a young man already working on winning a Darwin Award. Marvel at his wrist-mounted death-device in the video below, which he describes thus: The Pyro System is my final project for a mechanisms class in the ...More ( Tech News )
How to Turn Your Vacuum Cleaner into a Bazooka
environmentalgraffiti.com — Imagine my delight at discovering an absolutely epic experiment to turn your household vacuum cleaner into a bazooka. Word. This is where science helps you to shoot your friends in the gonads.More ( Media )
Build Your Own F-35 Lightning II Fighter Jet
flightglobal.com — Have you ever wanted to know what it takes to fully assembly a stealth fighter? In case you have, I've got the file for you. The image above is a snapshot from a manufacturing sequence flow chart sent to me yesterday by Lockheed Martin, after it was approved for release by the US government.More ( Military )
Build World's Smallest Electronic Shocker!
instructables.com — This amazing little shocker is very tiny and can be hidden almost anywhere and give someone a surprise shock! It can operated by almost any 1.5v batteries! Disclaimer: This shocker can be dangerous, it gives out 450 shocking volts, so I am NOT responsible if you or anybody are injured or killed by the shocker, the responsibility is yours...More ( Tech News )
DIY - Cheap flashlight turned into a torchwatch!
When tinkering with our home theater stuff, we often need a good, bright (but small) flashlight to sort things out in that spaghetti bowl of cables. But who wants to spend three hundred bucks on one of those super-bright cop ...More ( Flashlights )
DIY hovercraft built from junk and scrapswatch!
A homemade radio control hovercraft I scrapped together out of a car and a boat
More ( Tech News )Not Just for the Military Anymore, A Look at DIY UAV'swatch!
Self-flying Aircraft Aren't Just for the Government Any More
More ( Tech News )Homemade Flame Thrower
mirror.linnwood.org — Like any red-blooded, masculine man of the male gender, I love PVC weaponry. You should too. If the concept of heading on down to the local Home Depot and transforming $100 worth of random pipe bits into a killing machine doesn't appeal to you, you're a goddamn pansy.More ( Tools )
Chinese DIY Helicopterwatch!
Chinese DIY Helicopter is the Culmination of 10 Years of Ingenuity, Possible Mental Illness
More ( Tech News )DIYer constructs Ultrasonic Batgoggles
instructables.com — What you see is a homegrown device that enables humans to discover how bats must feel when using echolocation in order to judge how far away certain objects are. The main components are an Arduino microcontroller clone, Devantech ultrasonic sensor and a set of welding goggles -- oh, and a sick poker face to really round things out.More ( Tech News )
Build your own Bluetooth handgun handset, or don't
instructables.com — Want to attract attention (and the police) everytime you answer your cellphone in public? Then perhaps this build-at-your-own-risk Bluetooth handgun handset project is for you. As far as DIY mods go, this one looks to be simple enough (if somewhat time-consuming), with it involving nothing more than stuffing a disassembled Jabra Bluetooth headset into a suitably realistic-looking airsoft gun, which ...More ( Guns )
Making a Bitchin First Aid Kit
delsquacho.com — Its probably a good idea to keep a first aid kit on hand for any sort of emergency, ranging from a scraped knee to an accidental decapitation. If youre anything like me though, you dont want just any first aid kit in your house. You want a first aid kit that looks like it could kick a little ass if ...More ( Survival )