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I Want to Make Something on My Day Off

Good for you! You're going to be productive today, but still have fun in the process. We've got a ton of projects for you to try, from gadgets to games to home improvement to food. Check them all out, pick one, and make your day off awesome.

Top 10 Essential DIY Skills That Aren't as Hard as You Think

We feature a lot of do-it-yourself projects here at Lifehacker, but oftentimes they seem undoable because they require a skill you don't have. Thankfully, there are quite a few DIY skills out there that are much easier to learn than you think. Here are our 10 favorites. Instead of waiting around for someone to build the exact program you need, knowing how to code means you can make it yourself—so no matter what your computer needs, you can make it happen. To get started, check out our Night School lesson on learning to code . It'll introduce you to the basics.

Top 10 Repair Projects You Should Never Pay For

Things break down, whether due to accidents, negligence, or just plain wear and tear. Instead of shelling out for an expensive repair or replacement, though, you can often fix the problem yourself for much less. Here are 10 repairs you should never pay for. Bicycles are quick to break down, especially if you don't treat them properly, but that doesn't mean you need to take it in for repairs every few months.

http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2012/03/18/why-do-it-yourself-digging-into-the-value-of-diy/

A few days ago, I spent more than two hours dismantling and reassembling the guts of a toilet tank. There were some issues with flushing, and I wanted to see if I could diagnose it myself (I did, actually; there was a small broken part that was simple to replace). A plumber could have done it in ten minutes and probably would have charged me $25 or $50 for the service (in our area, anyway; it would likely be more in other areas).

Why Do It Yourself? Digging into the Value of DIY | The Simple Dollar

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Mini Maker Faire: Make a Maker Faire - Make Faire Bay Area 2012 May 19th & 20th

Canada now has three Mini Maker Faires—Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. This short documentary of the Toronto Mini Maker Faire captures the essence of a Mini Maker Faire quite nicely. Maker Faire brings together families and individuals to celebrate the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset and showcase all kinds of incredible projects.

What Are You Working on What Do You Need? Back by popular demand, we'll be expanding this section of DIY DAYS. Those attending DIY DAYS will be able to do a 60 second presentation.

DIY Days – a roving conference for those who create

We’re looking for some talented hackers in the LA area to take part in an exciting hack for social good. The goal is to create prototypes that places education directly in students’ hands in an effort to unlock creativity in at-risk students. On Oct 27th we’ll be staging a hackathon in association with the Mozilla Foundation , DIY DAYS , the WorkBook Project , Open Access Week and UCLA . The goal is to develop prototypes that help to reboot education. Prototypes will be presented on stage on Oct 28th at the close of DIY DAYS in front of an audience as well as a special panel of angel investors, NGOs and educators.

Hack for Social Good

Bill Gates recently told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. "If you want to change the world in some big way," he says, "that's where you should start-biological molecules." The most disruptive force on the planet resides in DNA. Biotech companies and academic researchers are just beginning to unlock the potential of piecing together life from scratch. Champions of synthetic biology believe that turning genetic code into Lego-like blocks to build never-before-seen organisms could solve the thorniest challenges in medicine, energy, and environmental protection.

http://www.amazon.com/Biopunk-Scientists-Hack-Software-Life/dp/1617230022

Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life (9781617230028): Marcus Wohlsen: Books

Food Hacking & DIYbio in Southeast Asia :08:00 PM 23/06/2011

– June 21, 2011 Posted in: News , Workshops In 2010 after a short period of tinkering with DIYbio we created the Secret Cooks Club, a joint initiative of food and tech savvy members of Hackerspace SG and Food studies scholars from the National University of Singapore and Keio University in Tokyo. We work on various projects involving food & design in Asia: hacking rice cookers into cheap sous vide equipment for paleodieters, organizing underground restaurant, personalized dinners for people with a 23andme DNA profiles or simply doing food ethnography around Indonesian wet markets to understand and support indigenous food design. Inspired by extreme food practices our speculative design prototypes look beyond the future eating to reflect more generally on the role of design in complex systems – from farm to fork to phenotype.

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If you have not heard about the Optimus Maximus keyboard , let me fill you in. The idea is simple: Use OLED technology to place a tiny monitor on each key; Make each such small monitor completely configurable, and updatable in runtime; have each button display any image depending on what you are currently doing with your computer. The easiest example to grasp is that pressing the shift key will turn all "engravings" on the keyboard to CAPS. But a more interesting application would be a keyboard that displays the icons from your favorite image editing software. No more having to memorize what Ctrl + Shift + Alt + S does (it save for the web). Each key will display an image of its action.

Hacks&Mods | DIYPhotography.net

Maker Faire - Make Faire Bay Area 2012 May 19th & 20th

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It’s a simple idea: Find some bad art, whether original or a print, for a song at a thrift store, then modify it to make, if not “better art,” then at least something that’s more entertaining to look at. (Is it the same thing? Yeah, that sounds like a productive argument.) Anyway. To quote a great sage, “there’s a lot of guys doing it, but only one guy can be the best.”