Reader Chris Bright had too many remotes from various A/V gadgets and no good place to store them. That lasted until he fashioned a picture frame and fabric into a DIY remote caddy. He writes: A few years ago, I upgraded my entertainment system and it was great. I was happy with the results, but I w...

Craft a supremely cheap and furniture-saving scratch-pad for your feline friends with this tutorial from the Design Sponge blog. It's free and friendly to both the environment and adorable kitties. The post author, like many cat owners, noticed after a few purchases that store-bought scratch pads ar...

Turn two salad bowls into a spherical array, ball of sound with amazing results. Thanks go to Michael Zbyszynski for the original article in Make: Volume 11.To download The Ball of Sound MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Ball of Sound article in MAKE: Volume 11 "Ball of S...

Having trouble with people snatching your stuff? Did someone take your lunch from the company fridge? Here is an inexpensive, sneaky gizmo you can make to keep those sticky fingers away. Thanks go to Bob Knetzger for the original article in Make: Volume 16. To download The Talking Booby Trap MP4 cli...

Bath bombs, for the unfamiliar, are chalky feeling balls about the size of a small orange that you throw into a bath tub. They don't explode but they do react with the water fizzing and spinning, filling the water with fragrance and moisturizers. Bath bombs are a project ripe for DIYing, they often ...

Peek over walls and look around corners with a periscope—a long tool that uses two mirrors to show you hard-to-reach places. Over at how-to site Instructables, they've got the step by step for putting together a periscope using a thin mints box, duct tape, two small mirrors, and an X-Acto knif...

When the heat turns unbearable this weekend, get the kids outside anyway: head to the hardware store and pick up some PVC pipe, joints, and small plastic "mister jets." With those supplies, after drilling a few holes, screwing in a few jets, and gluing a few joints, DIY-er m32825 made a "kid wash" w...

Summer is a season to kick back, take things a easier, and indulge in pastimes and projects you couldn't enjoy while hunkered down for the winter. If you've got the DIY bug, that means trips to the hardware store, planning cheaper and better solutions to the heat and other summer challenges, and jus...

Adding another internal hard drive to your desktop computer isn't difficult, but a notebook is a whole other ball of wax. Still, blogger Fewt details how he got the job done and came out the other side with a second 100GB hard drive in his laptop. The process requires an extra notebook drive, a togg...

Instead of buying costly new appliances for your kitchen, it's cheap and easy to give the old ones a face lift. With cleaning fluid, a toothbrush, and some stainless steel contact paper, you can make old appliances look new, and the Handyman Fix Home Repair site details how. The instructions detail ...