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Weird bass guitars

Check out these great bass guitars! Which one is your favorite?
Weird Bass Guitars | Weirdomatic - [via] Link.

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MatchstickMan - The incredible Matchstick Uke

Tony writes -
Jack Hall from England, U.K. proved that a ukulele didn’t need to be made with conventional tools or from the finest materials to play well, sound good and be beautiful to look at.
This one-of-a- kind 1984 ukulele was made entirely from used wooden matchsticks…10,000 of them painstakingly glued together with 2 lbs of hide glue.
MatchstickMan - [via] Link.

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$10 wok keeps TV station on air

Some Kiwi ingenuity sent in from our pal Nat -
Why pay $20,000 for a commercial link to run your television station when a $10 kitchen wok from the Warehouse is just as effective?
This is exactly how North Otago’s newest television station 45 South is transmitting its signal from its studio to the top of Cape Wanbrow, in a bid to keep costs down.
45 South volunteer Ken Jones designed the wok transmitter in his spare time last year when he wanted to provide wireless broadband to his Ardgowan home.
$10 wok keeps TV station on air - 22 Feb 2007 - National News - New Zealand Herald - [via] Link.

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Wings castle - man & family builds castle

Ajit writes -
A short documentary about a man and his family building a Medieval Castle in upstate New York.
No design experience. He wanted to build a house and the first section looked like a castle so he switched to building a full fledged castle. They have been doing this for more than 25 years and have most of it completed.
Very entertaining guy. True story.
SquiggleBooth » Blog Archive » Wings Castle - Link.

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The Torofluxus

Interesting, the Torofluxus looks like a fun thing to make - if anyone has details on how it’s constructed, post up in the comments…
The Torofluxus was invented in the early 1990s by Jochen Valett, then a 70 year old artist and craftsman near Hamburg, Germany. A thirty foot long ribbon of fine “flat spring steel” is woven into a torus and the ends spot welded. When attached to a plastic core, it flows downwards gripping onto the core and shimmering like a silver bubble.
Torofluxus - Link.
Thanks R!

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The “DishMaker”

Leonardo made a diskmaker, not something practical (yet) - but usually nothing interesting starts out being so…
hate dishes? the DishMaker is a new kind of appliance that can replace dishes altogether by making cups, bowls and plates on demand and recycling them when you’re done. the device uses up the same room and energy as a dishwasher, while it replaces all the cabinets and dishes in your kitchen. the DishMaker takes advantage of a little-known shape-memory property of acrylic so that one dish can be recycled a thousand times without consuming the energy that does into a single-use ceramic dish.

DishMaker - [via] Link.
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Pneumatic tennis ball launcher - Potato Gun, spud cannon…

Jenny writes -
“A Spud Cannon that can shoot tennis balls through plywood! I’m soo awestruck and want to make one!” - Link.
Related:

Make a Spud Gun Instructions and 3D PDF - Link.
Make a Spud Gun - Weekend Projects: A Make Magazine … - Link.
The SGTC Mega-Launcher Spudgun - Link.
DIY Spud gun remix… - Link.
Made - Spud gun - Link.

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Homemade Knight Rider K.I.T.T car…

This homebuilt 1984 Trans Am Knight Rider K.I.T.T car took over 4 years and $40k to make.. and now it’s on eBay…
“…features a 2tv dash with real working digital gauges with dual 4″ lcd screens….. gullwing steering wheel, upper console, lower console, pod unit …all complete with buttons and displays as they were in the show ! complete stereo system with DVD/CD/MP3 player, amplifier and speakers. “ [via] - Link.

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A low impact woodland home

Simon writes -
“You are looking at pictures of our family home in Wales. It was built by myself and my father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved in and cosy. I estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).
The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature. Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass produced box designed for maximum profit and convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons […]

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Jeep waterfall - DIY version?

A MAKE reader writes in with a bit of speculation on Jeep’s water fall -
“This is very cool and it doesn’t seem like it should be that hard to do. The tricky part would be finding affordable electronic valves that could open and close fast enough. They say it is similar to an inkjet but an inkjet works one of two ways, (a) desktop inkjets dispense ink into a chamber then heat it until the expansion forces it out onto the page, (b) continuous inkjets like those used to print addresses on mass mail pieces use a continuous drip of electrically charged ink droplets. The droplets it doesn’t want to fall on the paper are drawn out of the stream by a charge next to the falling droplet stream. “ - Link.

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Fish swim around the house, in a custom aquarium

Here’s an incredible gallery of a custom fish tank made so the fish can swim around the house through tubes! [via] - Link.
Related:

Light bulb aquarium - Link.
HOW TO - Make an aquarium coffee table - Link.
Building an acrylic aquarium - Link.
Make an Apple Cube Aquarium - Link.

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Armchair cruisers

Dan makes and sells “armchair cruisers” - features include: Digital Drive systems, Gel cell battery options, Premium Sound Systems, Diamond plate loading docks, “bling kits”, Light packages, Cooler/Storage options, recessed control modules, Theme models, Re-skinnable frames, Guage packages, Security systems, Replaceable drop skirts, Non marking tire options, Flat Free tire options, 500 lb capacity options… [via] - Link.
Related:

Armchair with Built-in Kitchenette - Link.
Grow your own lawn chair - Link.

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DIY Extreme piano

Tom writes -
“Proximasolaris, who claims to be a 41 year-old living in France, spent 250 hours on this incredible piano casemod - installing the guts of a $2,300 Korg Triton Extreme, $300 of motors, $500 of assorted mechanics and blue LEDs.” [via] - Link.

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