Valentines Special: Couples Album

post from DIYPhotography.net -DIY Photography and Studio Lighting on 09 February 2010 06:04:39 PM. © DIYPhotography.net -DIY Photography and Studio Lighting

Valentines Special: Couples Album With Valentines just around the corner and all, I thought I'd share one of the wedding gifts wifey and I got about seven years ago when we got married. Amongst all the gifts, this gift is the one single gift that helped us hold our marriage through some very rough times. Really, I cannot over estimate it one bit.

That said, it is full of commitment so only give it if you're OK with smelling your current significant other's morning breath for the rest of your life. If you are that serious, hit the jump for more details.

Hide/Remove Google Buzz Updates from Your Gmail
Inbox

post from Daily DIY on 09 February 2010 06:00:00 PM. © Daily DIY

If you just don't have the bandwidth to manage one more set of social notifications automatically hitting your Gmail inbox, you may not be all that excited about this morning's Google Buzz announcement. Luckily banishing Buzz from your inbox is easy.Any[...]

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Battle Symets are GO!

post from Daily DIY on 09 February 2010 06:00:00 PM. © Daily DIY

The fine folks at Solarbotics have put up another Instructable on how to build a cool BEAMbot, this time, a cranked-up Symet that spins like a maniac and can go to the mat against other bots. It's robot sumo meets the BEAM Jurassic park. Solar-powered[...]

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Banish Google Buzz Updates from Your Gmail Inbox

post from Daily DIY on 09 February 2010 06:00:00 PM. © Daily DIY

If you just don't have the bandwidth to manage one more set of social notifications automatically hitting your Gmail inbox, you may not be all that excited about this morning's Google Buzz announcement. Luckily banishing Buzz from your inbox is easy.Any[...]

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Screw-in coffin patent issues

post from Daily DIY on 09 February 2010 04:59:43 PM. © Daily DIY

This is a choice selection of images from the application for U.S. patent 7,631,404, which has since issued to Donald Scruggs of Chino, CA. The title is "Easy inter burial container." [via Neatorama] Read more | Permalink |[...]

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Make a portable barcode scanner with an arduino
and a cuecat

post from Daily DIY on 09 February 2010 04:54:19 PM. © Daily DIY

Around the turn of the century, there was a company whose business model including giving away free barcode scanners that emulate keyboards. A relatively easy mod to these cuecat scanners removed the encryption and made them suitable[...]

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Heartpuzzle

post from Daily DIY on 09 February 2010 04:48:48 PM. © Daily DIY

Do you want to propose to your darling with an surprise, maybe our heartpuzzle is right for you :-) It is an wooden puzzle. you can pull out the red hearts. On the top is an engraved heart with the text "Do you know what I love about you? Under the[...]

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Portable Fan

post from Daily DIY on 09 February 2010 04:46:30 PM. © Daily DIY

I had a spare computer fan laying around along with some other parts, so I decided to make this portable fan. Materials Parts: 12v. computer fan 2 9 volt batteries (preferably one good and one dead) switch wire solder Tools: dremel [...]

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Make a snow rake from your shop broom

With 30 inches of snow on the ground and another 12 inches forecast, removing the existing snow from a low pitched roof was necessary to prevent a costly ice dam and interior damage. An old shop broom, a scrap of 3/8" plywood, a telescoping[...]

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How to wax (waterproof) a Carhartt coat

If you're like me, you love your Carhartt jacket. They're extremely durable and will hold up to nearly any abuse. The only negative is that they absorb water. Well, I was determined to overcome this and here is how I accomplished it. What you[...]

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