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DIY Guy Cranks Out Guitar Amps Made of Ouija Boards, Beer Cans. A mid-20s pop-culture fan, Brenne tends to make amps that reflect his interests and personality.

DIY Guy Cranks Out Guitar Amps Made of Ouija Boards, Beer Cans

Browse his website and you’ll find amps made of vintage Nintendo gear and merchandise from the likes of Pac-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. “I like finding what someone had and really liked as a kid, like a Ghostbusters lunch box,” he told Wired. “Now that you’re older, you can’t really display it in your house, but as an amp it’s functional.” Pairing that collector’s eye with DIY spirit, Brenne turned to the web, where you can find instructions for almost everything, from building a videogame in a box to making zombie makeup out of grocery store items.

He stumbled onto RunOffGroove.com — in particular, plans for the Ruby amp circuit. Then he took a quick soldering lesson from his father and got to work on his first amp. “Building the circuit was very trial-and-error. Brenne built amp after amp, eventually turning his new hobby into a business. Build times vary. How to Build Your Own Speakers: Step-by-Step DIY Tech. The electronic components inside a loudspeaker are actually quite simple.

How to Build Your Own Speakers: Step-by-Step DIY Tech

The drivers and crossovers pictured here are available in a $369 kit. (Photograph by Chris Eckert) It was back in 1924 that a couple of researchers from General Electric, Chester Rice and Edward Kellogg, patented what remains the basic design for virtually all the world's loudspeakers. In the 84 years since, engineers and enthusiasts have invested a lot of thought and energy in the refinement of Rice and Kellogg's concept, creating a valuable knowledge base for the do-it-yourself crowd. I should know--I recently built the speakers pictured on these pages, and in the process I learned quite a bit about the art and science of a good speaker. At its core a loudspeaker is a surprisingly simple device. Hardcore speaker hobbyists take delight in figuring all this out for themselves, designing and building the crossovers and enclosures from scratch to see what comes out. The Jasper Circle Jig: A lifesaver! Box assembly. How to Make Beer - Making Beer at Home.

Making a mash is not always necessary--you can brew a perfectly good lager or ale with prepackaged malt extract.

How to Make Beer - Making Beer at Home

But for this recipe, we're going all out, with an all-grain beer-- we extract the sugars from the grain ourselves. The recipe we're following is for a beer in the Belgian white or "wit" sytle. It's called "Wit Ginger, Not Mary Ann," and was published by the esteemed beer-brewing magazine, Zymurgy. Ingredients: 11 pounds of grain 11 quarts of water Our grains include 5 pounds Belgian pilsner malt, 4.5 pounds of German wheat malt, 1.0 pound of flaked oats, and 0.5 pounds of caramel pils malt. Take the mash (all the ingredients above in a pot) and bring it up to 150 degrees F, keeping it at that exact temperature for 1 hour. * Test the mash: The point of mashing is to turn starches in the grain into sugars and extract them into a sweet liquor.

How to Brew Beer - Home Brewing Getting Started. Serious about making large batches of beer?

How to Brew Beer - Home Brewing Getting Started

Splurge for a propane-powered rig with a three-tiered brew stand. This setup, by Indiana-based Blichmann Engineering, costs about $2000 and features a trio of 20- to 30-gallon pots and gas burners that put out 216,000 Btu per hour. (The high heat quickly boils large amounts of liquid, shaving hours off the brewing process.) More casual or budget brewers can make do with one big pot, heated on a common kitchen stove. Sanitize Yeast and sugar are beer's building blocks—but they're dinner for flavor-spoiling bacteria. TIP: Use a large container (a wallpaper tray will do) filled with sanitizer to douse hard-to-wash items, such as tubing.