DIY Blog

You’ve designed a nice PCB layout and want to order a bunch made? Before submitting the order, be sure to check if your component fit physically using this simple method.

Doing an easy PCB pre-order check [link][via]

Useful plans to build a weatherproof wi-fi antenna. Great for sticking it to the man (your ISP) and sharing the cost of your connection with a few neighbors. This design supposedly triples the gain compared to a standard antenna.

Compact Powerful Weatherproof Wifi Antenna [link]

This is yet another gift wrapping post. This one focuses on reusing old newspapers (or this morning’s newspaper) to wrap gifts.

Wrapping gifts with newspapers is a great idea considering that most wrapping papers are produced overseas, with little or no recycled content, and are used to re-package something that’s already packaged! The general idea is to wrap the gifts as nicely as you can. If you wrap them sloppily, they won’t look good. If done properly, you can make a statement and feel even better about giving.

Remember the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Something that isn’t consumed never needs to get Recycled at all. Whatever you do, recycle all wrapping papers. Keep and reuse gift bags and nice wrapper decorations, such as ribbons. It’s as easy as putting them away for next year instead of tossing them. You’ll also save a trip to the store come next holiday season.

Green Gift Wrapping [link]

Happy Festivus! If you have nothing planned tonight, perhaps you should embrace the Festivus for the Rest of Us.

[???]A Festivus for the Rest of Us: How to Celebrate the Seinfeld Holiday [link]

If you’re to lazy to make it yourself, you can buy a festivus pole here.

Normally, I don’t like that kind of video, but this guy is really good. While It’s hardly a set of instructions - one needs genuine talent to even get close to that level of realism - it’s still interesting to watch and as they say, you don’t learn how to do something by watching someone who sucks at it.

Go see it: How to draw a woman’s eye and how to draw a Ford Mustang. From the looks of it, The Artist (it’s his avatar) just uses various Staedtler Mars Lumograph pencils.

How to Draw the Female Eye - or a Mustang [link]