Souped Up
Do-It-Yourself Projects to Make Anything Better
1st Edition
Published on 23. October 2013
480 pages
978-1-62873-542-0 (ISBN)
Description
Ever look around your house and get bored with the things you have? Too ordinary? Used it a million times? With Instructables.com's latest compilation, Souped Up, you can turn your ordinary into the extraordinary. Learn how to:
- . Brew a cup of coffee with Twitter
- . Make ice cubes crystal clear
- . Build a tape dispenser out of Legos
- . Light up your bicycle with LEDs
- . Turn your shower into a spa
- . Make your Nerf gun even cooler
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Instructables.com is a bona fide online sensation, a web-based community of motivated do-it-yourselfers who contribute invaluable how-to guides to the site on a wide range of topics, from gardening and home repair to recipes and gadgets that defy categorization.
A photographer, skateboarder, and artist, Michael Huynh is an enthusiastic maker with eclectic interests. Michael has been an Instructables fan since the website's inception, and the opportunity to collect a book of his favorite "souped up" projects was one he could never have imagined when he was 13 visiting the Instructables workshop in the Alameda Naval Air Station control tower.
A photographer, skateboarder, and artist, Michael Huynh is an enthusiastic maker with eclectic interests. Michael has been an Instructables fan since the website's inception, and the opportunity to collect a book of his favorite "souped up" projects was one he could never have imagined when he was 13 visiting the Instructables workshop in the Alameda Naval Air Station control tower.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Editor's note
- TECHNOLOGY
- Do-It-Yourself USB Hard Drive
- Electric Umbrella
- Bluetooth Handgun Handset for Your iPhone
- Do-It-Yourself Cassette Player Turntable
- Double-Ended USB Flash Drive
- Privacy Monitor Hacked from an Old LCD Monitor
- Cheap Lighter Laser Burner
- LED Light Drawing Pens
- Lego USB Stick
- Homemade Nintendo Arcade
- Laptop Tripod
- Simple Animatronics (Robot Hand)
- Explosive Alarm Clock
- DÉCOR
- NES Stepping Stones
- Rainbow-Tiled Bathroom
- Test Tube Spice Rack
- Robot Lamp
- Literary Clock
- Cardboard Cube Lamp
- Recycled Hard Drive Desk Clock
- Homemade Picture Tiles
- Do-It-Yourself Concrete Coasters and Trivets
- Half-Bottle LED Lights
- Alien Abduction Lamp
- One Lamp, Multiple Shades!
- Do-It-Yourself Death Star Clock
- Homemade Gold Record
- FOOD
- Drunken Gummi Bears
- Watermelon Keg
- Beer-Battered Bacon-Stuffed Jalapenos
- Bacon Jello
- Gummi Bear Surgery
- Bacon Roses
- Still-in-the-Shell Scrambled Eggs
- Bacon Kettle Chips
- Chicken 'n Waffles on a Stick
- Jalapeno Popper Crescent Rolls
- Fried Pickles
- Gummi Shot Glasses
- Chocolate Space Invaders
- Apple Pie Bites on a Stick
- Homemade Jello and Heart Banana
- Popcorn Popper-Roasted Coffee Beans
- Engraved M&Ms
- Octopizza Pie
- Bacon Pixie Sticks
- Pig Roast
- Cake Pops
- Bowl of Worms
- 3D Dinosaur Birthday Cake
- Robotic R2D2 Cupcake
- FURNITURE
- Sliced LACK Table
- IKEA Shelf Hack
- Raised Bed with Storage Bookshelves
- Pallet Desk
- Bean Bag Sofa/Bed
- Aquarium Coffee Table
- Duct Tape Hammock
- Skateboard Table
- Ladder Bookshelf
- Hang .10 Coffee Table
- Modular Bookshelf
- Adjustable Standing-Desk Conversion
- SCIENCE
- Magnetic Silly Putty
- How to Make a Synthetic Diamond
- Giant Fresnel-Lens Deathray
- Magic Crystal Tree
- Wave Pendulum
- TRANSPORTATION
- Cart Bike
- Night Bike Set!
- Leaf Blower Engine Bicycle
- Bamboo Bicycle
- Homemade Leather Bike Seat
- Camping Hot Tub
- CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES
- Tie-Dyed T-Shirts
- Electroluminescent Wire Clothing
- Clap-Off Bra
- Chainmail Shirt
- R2D2 Heels
- Bent Wood Rings
- Electronic Motherboard Bracelet
- LED Tron Suit
- Iron Man Arc Reactor
- Soda Can Tab Chainmail
- Smelt Your Own Ring
- 5 Cent Men's Ring
- Woven Paracord Bracelet/Watchband
- Homemade Bath Bombs
- Uber Band
- Do-It-Yourself Shirt-Folding Board
- REUSE
- Mouse Mouse!
- Survive Anything with Just a Cell Phone
- Computer Monitor Cat Bed
- Retro Art Toaster Mod
- Floppy Disk Notepad
- AUDIO/VISUAL
- Animal-Shaped Clay Whistles
- 2x4 Xylophone
- Trash-o-Caster Guitar
- Sound Dome Umbrella
- Cigarette Packet Flash Diffuser
- Long-Term Time-Lapse Photography
- Kite Aerial Photography (KAP)
- Amplifier Dock
- PLAY
- Tiny Catapults
- Bullet Bill Rocket
- Homemade Bound Book
- Full-Size Do-It-Yourself R2D2
- G.I. Joe Action Figure Fix with Condoms
- Custom Lift-the-Flap Children's Book
- Photo Block Puzzle
- Cy-Barbie!
- Blacklight BattleShots
- Modular Origami Sculptures
- Homemade Prescription Swimming Goggles
- WORKSHOP
- Vacuum-Cleaner-Built Skateboard
- DIY Stubby Screwdrivers
- Stained-Wood Pixel Art
- DIY Terrarium
- Wooden iPhone 5 Case
- Copper Rose
- DIY Knife-Sharpening Kit
- STORAGE
- Invisible Book Shelf
- Tetris Shelves
- Framed Vinyl Records
- Rope-Bridge Bookshelf
- Adjustable Bookshelf for Angled Walls
- Concrete Lightbulb Wall Hook
- Cardboard Waste Tower
