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Build a home server with FreeNAS
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Build a Network Attached Storage machine using FreeNAS. Got an old PC? Install FreeNAS and you'll have a bomproof box to serve your media files and back up your computers... on this .. show full overview
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Fizzy Eggnog & Sparkling OJ: We Build a Home Carbonation System!
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DIY carbonated drinks! This week we build our own carbonation system that costs mere cents to fill up a bottle. But what else can we make fizzy? Coffee...orange juice...even egg nog?!?!? Our liquid depravity knows no bounds.
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Hollow Book Build Hides Secrets, Covers eBooks, & Makes Tablets Retro Cool!!!
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Need a last minute Secret Santa gift? Make a hollow book! On this episode we make hollow books to stash secrets, cover tablets, and impress your secret santa recipient.
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New Year's Hangover Fix: Make Fresh Donuts!
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Got a wicked hangover New Year's day? Some nice, fluffy buttermilk donuts might be just what you .. show full overview
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Power Tool! Use a Digital Multimeter To Find Voltage, Resistance, & Amperage!
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Whether it's a $7 eBay special or a top of the line Fluke, all multimeters (or multitesters, VOMS) work in the same basic way. We explain what what the symbols on the front mean, the .. show full overview
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DIY Salt Battery Urine Can Charge Your Smart Phone!
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded research to develop a pee powered smartphone battery... but you can make one right now. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has .. show full overview
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Build The Perfect Windows Gaming PC -AND- Get A Great Deal On The Parts!
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We show you our fave tips and tricks building a new Windows machine for our friend Nick... and you'll definitely want to hear how he put together the best collection of parts for his .. show full overview
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Build A Light Box On The Cheap, Take Gorgeous Photos!
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It doesn't matter what you call it: light tent, light cube, light box, macro photo studio, or a mini photo studio... with some cheap supplies, a hobby knife, and a couple of lamps, you .. show full overview
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Build a Custom Suitcase Boom Box!
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Speakers + Vintage Suitcase = Awesome Sound?
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DIY Cardboard Boats Float Two Adults!
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Can we build a cardboard boat with just glue and Gorilla tape? Absolutely.
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Vintage Suitcase Speaker Gets Battery Power & Better Sound!
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A low cost and and car speakers turned a vintage suitcase form the thrift store into a rocking' boom box
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FreeNAS Developers Help Us Build A Better FreeNAS Box!
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FreeNAS is the most popular storage OS in the world, and makes it easy for anyone to build secure, robust network attached storage (NAS) to store files and share files. We love our .. show full overview
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Mason Jar Cold Brew Coffee Experiment!
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Cold brew coffe tastes incredibly smooth, isn't just for ice coffee, and it's easy to make. You don't need to pay $11 for a pint from the local fancy food store!
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Hack a $5 Laser Pointer Into a Laser Communicator!
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A cheap laser pointer from the pet shop, a few dollars in parts from Radio Shack and we were able to send music over a laser beam. We're talking sub $10 laser communicator here... yeah, we got a little sciency this week, Amplitude Modulation rocks
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Print Large Posters with Any Printer!
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Trisha Hershberger joins us to talk about using the Rasterbator! You can make them big, long, and have tons of fun! Get your mind out of the gutter. We're talking about creating huge tiled prints with any sort of printer.
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Save Energy: Hack Yourself A Watt Meter!
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How Much Juice Is Your PC/Xbox One/PS4 Sucking Down? DIY Watt Meter! Ever wonder how much electricity your XBOX ONE, Playstation 4, gaming PC, refrigerator, or window mounted AC unit .. show full overview
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Upgrade Your Router For Free! Better Security, Speed Up WiFi, Throttle Bandwidth Hogs, More!!!
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Make your router more secure, faster, and overall better!
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$10 Relay Board + Arduino (or Raspberry Pi) = Switch Anything On or Off!!!
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Control lights, appliances, and more with an Arduino or Raspberry Pi!
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Build A Raspberry Pi Home Theater PC that Plays Netflix, Amazon & Your Media Collection!
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Turn a $35 Raspberry Pi into a home theatre streamer! OpenELEC makes it easy to turn a $35 Raspberry Pi into a solid home theater PC that can stream your media collection... and while .. show full overview
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Hack Your Nerves with Electricity. Muscle Dancing with MIDI and Arduinos.
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This week we hack our bodies with TENS units and Arduinos.
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Headlight Restoration Makes Your Car Safer
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Make your headlights brighter and safer! We take a look at a few options to increase the brightness of car headlights. First using a headlight restoration kit, then replacing the .. show full overview
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Make a Wireless Charging Stand
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This week, a piece of wood and some wireless charging components almost kill us!
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Turn a Car Battery Into an Emergency Power Charger
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Zombie apocalypse? No worry! We've got a super-simple way to keep your devices charged in an emergency. We take a car battery, add some 12v receptacles, and hook in a power inverter to light up our devices.
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Making Your Own Bacon is Cheap and DELICIOUS!!
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Make your own bacon from scratch! Need we say more?
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Raspberry Pi PirateBox For Anonymous File Swapping
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Create an anonymous file sharing and communications hotspot using a Raspberry Pi!
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How to Replace Your Toilet and Save Money
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Save money and water by replacing your old toilet! It's not the most glamorous of subjects, but we sure had a lot of fun (and issues) replacing an old toilet in Patrick's house. Check it out!
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How to Fix Broken Headphone Cables
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Like us and have a pile of broken earbuds and headphones? Learn the easy way to fix your broken headphone cable.
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Electric Russian Roulette - DIY Extra
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...or maybe reverse Russian Roulette. We've got a short extra of us playing a game with the electric shock setup.
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Weld a DIY Adjustable Standing Desk
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Today we build an adjustable steel standing desk! Michael learns to weld and Patrick learns that he's out of practice.
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Coolant & Oil Change: Make Your Car Last!
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Save money by doing your own car maintenance! This week we're fixing up an old car, starting with a fluid change! We show you how to change your oil, flush your coolant/antifreeze, and more!
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Car DIY Tuneup! Spark Plugs, OBDII with Android, and More
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We're continuing a car maintenance with a full-on tuneup! This week we're changing out old spark plugs, checking functional fluids, and hooking in our Android phone with an ELM327 .. show full overview
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Do-It-Yourself Bed Liner On Truck, Skateboard, Cell Phone Cover, Shoes?!?!
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This week we experiment with roll-on truck bed liner! We figured Heculiner would look great on a truck bed.... watch us make over the (seriously trashed) bed in Patrick's Dodge 2500, .. show full overview
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Build a quick and easy tool for working out! Build Grip Strength with a DIY Forearm Trainer - DIY Extra
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Build a quick and easy tool for working out! Michael decided to use the workshop equipment on a weekend without adult supervision. With only minor scarring, he came out with a simple .. show full overview
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Need to tow your latest project home? Here's how to do it safely! Car Trailer Towing Guide: How to Get Your Next Project Home
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Need to tow your latest project home? Here's how to do it safely! We talk about the basics of towing: whether your vehicle can handle the weight, strapping in your cargo, attaching safety lines, and general towing tips. Check it out!
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Got a problem that needs solving? Try using a Raspberry Pi! Use a Raspberry Pi to Fix Everyday Problems. Become the Office Hero!
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Got a problem that needs solving? Try using a Raspberry Pi! This week, Patrick and Michael become the office heroes by solving a long-standing problem--bathroom waits. With a .. show full overview
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Fixing Broken Screens. Replacing Broken iPhone 5 and iPad 2 Glass
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This week we're going through yet another horrible ordeal--replacing broken screens from iOS devices. Peeling off the glued-on broken bits is no walk in the park, but dealing with the .. show full overview
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Surface Mount Soldering w/ Ben Heck
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Removing microprocessors by hand? Yep, it's possible! The legendary Ben Heck joins us to demystify surface mount soldering. He gives a few pointers on working with these tiny .. show full overview
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Data Visualization and Plotting Made Easy - DIY Extra
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Have a pile of data that you need to make sense of? Take a look at this DIY Tryin Extra! Sample code: https://github.com/palmdalian/BathroomStatus Plot.ly API .. show full overview
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Build Your Own VPN. Browse Securely from Anywhere
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Browse securely while on any network! Setting up your own VPN server is surprisingly easy when you have the right steps. We'll give you peace of mind by showing two ways to configure .. show full overview
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Screw The XBOX ONE and the PS4... We Built a Gaming PC for $380!
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We don't need no stinkin' consoles...or PC cases for that matter. We build a sub-$400 (and even cheaper if you shop around!) gaming PC that can run games like Titanfall on High .. show full overview
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Cable Management 101: Make Your PC Pretty and Improve Airflow - DIY Extra
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Our resident PC elitist joins to show us a thing or two about cable management. Cisco Zarandin, form Rev3Games, is obsessed with orderly cables. On desks, in cubicles, and even INSIDE .. show full overview
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Build A Survival Kit BEFORE The Next Emergency or Disaster!!!
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This week is a little different--we're putting together an emergency kit for when the next big disaster strikes. We don't care if you call it your Emergency Kit, Disaster Kit, .. show full overview
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Gain Complete Control of Your Phone with Tasker
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Home automation, custom trigger, better security. Do ANYTHING with Tasker! Tasker is a $3 Android app that let's you automate almost anything on your Android device. Think of it like .. show full overview
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Control Your PC With Chat Commands! Twitch Plays Anything.
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We turn Rev3Games' Twitch chat into the camera switcher! The DIYtryin crew harness the same technology behind "Twitch Plays Pokemon" to turn the Rev3Games livestream interactive. We .. show full overview
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Pick a Lock for Free with DIY Lock Picking Set
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Make a lock pick set from metal scraps. Ever want to try your hand at picking locks, but don't want to end up on some sort of government watch list? Too bad...if you're watching this .. show full overview
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Can Static Electricity Kill Your PC?
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Do anti-static wrist straps actually protect your PC? We hook up a static electricity generator and shock computer components to find out! The DIY crew are PC-building villains, never .. show full overview
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How to Make An Easy Van de Graaff Generator
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Want to make your hair stand on end? Make a Van De Graaff generator! Michael has a quick rundown of his generator build and how you can make one yourself.
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Building the Ultimate Video Editing PC
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Get ready to burn some cash--we're building a top of the line edit machine that will blow most builds out of the water. Full parts list here: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/b6kXhM CPU: .. show full overview
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DIY Fire Starters and Magic Underwater Matches
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This isn't an overclocking tutorial--think of it more as an experiment to see if overclocking is actually useful. We overclocked the 5820k Haswell-E processor and saw a definite boost in .. show full overview
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Overclocking Haswell-E 25% Performance Boost For Free!
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Does overclocking have any real-world benefits? We test out the latest Haswell-E chip to find out! This isn't an overclocking tutorial--think of it more as an experiment to see if .. show full overview
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Engine Mounts, Oil Change, and a Tuneup - We're Going to SEMA!
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You know those cars that barely sputter to the other side of town? Yeah...we're driving one of those to Vegas. We've got a whole lot of work to do before our old Volvo 240 can make it .. show full overview
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3D Printed Cars, Oculus Rift Meets Welding, Tite-Reach Extension Wrench & More from SEMA 2014
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There were so many fast cars and useful tools at SEMA 2014. We break down a few of our favorites from this .. show full overview
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Parking Lot Car Stereo Upgrade
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Before we left SEMA 2014, we decided to do a stereo and speaker upgrade on our old Volvo. Will we get kicked out of the hotel parking lot before finishing the install? Watch to find out!
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Building an Office Zip Line
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What do you do when the internet is down in the office? Build a zip line of course! We set up a mostly-safe line in the office and let out coworkers have a go. Don't tell HR!
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Make Your Favorite Gloves Work With a Touchscreen!
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Why waste money on gloves that are already "touchscreen compatible," when you can make your own for just a few bucks? Gloves do a great job of keeping your hands warm, but they also .. show full overview
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Best Winter Apps for Android
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Want your phone to be prepared for winter? Then these are the apps you need!

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