Here’s and oldie but a goodie for all you rednecks out there. Go find a shotgun shell out behind your trailer and use it as a decorative flower holder! This would also make a great decoration for a shotgun wedding. Thanks, I’ll be here all week. Try the veal. [via thanks, Tom!]
Back in the olden days, people used to store motion pictures on some sort of primitive magnetic storage device that the Neanderthals called a “VHS” tape. If you’re lucky enough to find one of these box-DVDs, perhaps in an antique shop or at your local archeological dig, you can turn it into a clever USB Hub and relive the glory days of rewinding and non-digital picture. Let’s just hope you don’t have to adjust the tracking on your USB connection.
As the analog airways of yore go dark next February, you’ll probably be left with a boob tube or two that will only be able to serve as paperweights or landfill fodder (or, in the case of rednecks, a stand for your new TV - for shame!). But Popular Science has shown us the light with a handy-dandy tutorial on repurposing your old junker-ware picture box into a new screen for your iPod or CCTV, among other things. The added bonus is that all the hipsters will think you’re cool when you’re pumping Andrew W.K. videos straight from your new iPod Touch to your 30 year old antique TV.
Here’s on for all you sadists out there - a coat rack made from disembodied doll parts! We recommend this project for people who already live alone and are not expecting any guests in the near future. Also, we’re pretty sure that scarf belongs to Freddie.
These “Do Not Disturb” signs are the real deal - retro-riffic since birth. Well, I guess when they were born they were “current.” Whatever. The point is they’re cool, and they’re available in a high-res printable image so you can make your own and hang them on your door, or the doors of your hotel, or your office, or from your nose in your cubicle as you nap.
Retro Holiday Inn Do Not Disturb Signs.
Just look at those spiffy speakers right up there. They look like someone paid way too much for them and is using them to blast their neighbors’ eardrums. But this wouldn’t be DIY:happy if we weren’t about to tell you how to make them yourself, on the (relatively) cheap. Remember, these are fancy - it’s not just a “put the speaker in a box” operation, it’s more like a “there’s math involved” kind of operation.
Fostex FX120 MLTL Speaker Project. [Thanks, Gio]
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