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• Homemade Weapon: How to Make a 25 mm Bolt Action Sniper Rifle out of PVC Piping

  Published: September 19, 2007, 6:53 am

  Tags: 25 Mm Bolt Action Sniper Rifle, Home Made, Homemade Weapon, Instructables, Pneumatic Weapons, Sniper Rifle

  How-to website Instructables is running Launch It, a contest for people to send in their home-made inventions. And here's one of the entries, a 25MM Pneumatic Cannon. Boasting a two-and-a-half-foot barrel that is one inch in diameter, the rifle has custom bolt-action mechanism, a modded sprinkler valve as the primary firing valve, and a $40

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• Homemade Weapon: How to Make a 25mm Bolt Action Sniper Rifle out of PVC Piping

  Published: September 19, 2007, 6:53 am

  Tags: 25 Mm Bolt Action Sniper Rifle, Home Made, Homemade Weapon, Instructables, Pneumatic Weapons, Sniper Rifle

  How-to website Instructables is running Launch It, a contest for people to send in their homemade inventions. And here's one of the entries, a 25mm pneumatic cannon. Boasting a two-and-a-half-foot barrel that is one inch in diameter, the rifle has custom bolt-action mechanism, a modded sprinkler valve as the primary firing valve, and a $40

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• Extreme Repair For Extremely F*cked Up CDs [How-to]

  Published: November 19, 2007, 9:55 pm

  Tags: Cds, How To, Instructables, Repair

  Instructables has a tutorial on a CD repair technique designed to bring nearly any disc (barring any cracks, breaks, etc...) back from the dead. The fix requires you to heat the underside of the CD over a gas burner, boil it in water and dry off your freshly resurfaced disc. The process seems to leave a slim margin of error, so if you're trying to

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• Instructables: Copy a Key Using a Coke Can

  Published: November 20, 2007, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Random Stuff, Drink, Instructables, Keys, Spy

  Instructables has a neat if dangerous tutorial on how to quickly make a key copy by tracing the metal from a Coke can. It's pretty obvious, and with that seed planted in your mind, there's probably no need to read the instructions. Let me go one step further and remind you that you can copy a key for like two bucks at the hardware store, and

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• Super iPod Pillow is Plusher than Plush, Plays MP3s [Brilliant]

  Published: November 26, 2007, 7:42 am

  Tags: Bedroom, Brilliant, Clever, Diy, Gadgets, Instructables, Ipod, Make, Mp3 Pillow, Portable Media, Super Ipod

  the pics and instructions at Instructables. [Instructables]

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• Homemade Cellphone-Based Surveillance Camera Is SMS-Controlled, Irresistibly Retro [Gilliamesque Invention]

  Published: December 5, 2007, 5:07 am

  Tags: Camera, Cellphone, Gilliamesque Invention, Homemade, Instructables, Surveillance

  dorks like me. [Instructables]

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• DIY Lightsaber Makes Attacking Whiny Jedi Nerds More Authentic [DIY]

  Published: June 14, 2008, 10:00 am

  Tags: Diy, Darth Vader, Do It Yourself, Eddie Izzard, Fun, Instructables, Jedi Church, Lightsaber, Sci Fi, Star Wars, Star Wars Fans

  of the Sith Lord's weapon, Instructables has a DIY kit to ensure that our next drunken rampage is truly worthy of the Dark Side. The project, from Instructables user Ricardoaraujo, uses a normal toy lightsaber hilt, some AA batteries, a rubber hose and a couple of LEDs to build a weapon you'd be proud to kick Jedi ass with. Now all you need to

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• Give a Bluetooth Handgun Handset a Shot [Bluetooth]

  Published: July 14, 2008, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Bluetooth, Gun, Handgun, Handset, Igiveup, Instructables, Iphone

  still never use. A user at Instructables did just that by rewiring an older Jabber handset inside an airsoft gun. Even though it's probably the biggest and most absurd Bluetooth handset, the workings of it are pretty cool. The trigger has been wired as the call button, the barrel as the speaker and the grip as the mic making it perfect for

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• Give a Bluetooth Handgun Handset a Shot

  Published: July 14, 2008, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Gadgets, Bluetooth, Diy, Gadgets, Guns, Handgun, Headsets, Instructables

  still never use. A user at Instructables did just that by rewiring an older Jabber handset inside an airsoft gun. Even though it's probably the biggest and most absurd bluetooth handset, the workings of it are pretty cool. The trigger has been wired as the call button, the barrel as the speaker and the grip as the mic, making it perfect for

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• Guitar Hero and Rock Band Controller Mod For Finicky Fingers

  Published: July 17, 2008, 9:30 pm

  Tags: Games, Controllers, Games, Gaming, Guitar Hero, Instructables, Mashups, Ps2, Rock Band, Xbox 360

  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

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• Build Your Own Electric Motorcycle for $3000 [DIY]

  Published: July 19, 2008, 6:15 pm

  Tags: Diy, Cheap Transport, Do It Yourself, Electric Motorcycle, Environmental, Instructables, Motorcycle, Save Gas, Stryker

  know-how than cash, an Instructables user has put up a really interesting tutorial on building an electric motorcycle using just $3000. The vehicle has a 70mph top speed, but can only go about 10 miles before it needs to be recharged. It's great for a quick trip to the store, if you don't make any unexpected stops along the way. With gas

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