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Chaîne de Slideschool. Tips and downloads for getting things done. Tips and downloads for getting things done. Become a Command Line Ninja With These Time-Saving Shortcuts. Asciimation » Blog Archives » Building a better NERF gun. January 17th, 2011 Like 90% of other geek offices worldwide we have at work several NERF and similar toy weapons floating about.

Asciimation » Blog Archives » Building a better NERF gun.

These toys typically fire safe foam darts and projectiles. Not impressed with the performance of my colleague Lester’s NERF Maverick I decided to see if I could build a better NERF gun. Click on the pictures to see larger versions. A film is available on YouTube showing the pistol and how well it compares to a standard Nerf Maverick. Homemade pistol with NERF Maverick. Now, this isn’t new. My effort is not quite so impressive. The pistol is made from 32mm ID PVC pipe, some aluminium extrusion and aluminium pipe, wood for the grip and various pieces of metal and plastic. The spring seems to be this one from Century springs. Pistol stripped down to component parts. I will go through the parts in turn. Here we see the aluminium trigger guard and the screws used to hold the pistol together.

Next is a bolt and insert that holds the pistol grip to the trigger housing. Recover from a bad flash. From DD-WRT Wiki So, you're afraid you've bricked your router.

Recover from a bad flash

Don't worry, there are a number of things you can try to get your router working again before giving up and living with the fact that your router is now a paperweight. It is also unfortunately possible to configure your router in ways which make it dead to the world. These techniques may be useful in these cases also. Kindle Screen Saver Hack for all 2.x and 3.x Kindles. Many thanks to clarknova (screen saver hack), porkupan (jailbreak hack) and NiLuJe (revised jailbreak and screen saver hacks).

Kindle Screen Saver Hack for all 2.x and 3.x Kindles

Note: Amazon does not support 3rd party hacks and may void your warranty should anything go wrong. Exercise caution and use at your own risk. Only the user will be responsible for the results (good or bad). Please visit NiLuJe's Fonts & ScreenSavers hacks for Kindles thread on MobileRead. This is the jailbreak and screen saver hack I will be describing. WARNING: Use at your own risk! Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey. Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey. Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey. Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey. The Unconventional Hacker: NES Cartridge Wireless Router.

Remove the two screws veiled beneath the information label on the bottom of the device.

The Unconventional Hacker: NES Cartridge Wireless Router

Refer to the image for screw locations if any complication may arise. Remove the screws adhering the router's mainboard to the casing. This should be rather simple. step 4Preparing the Cartridge You may find that the router's mainboard will not fit into the cartridge for quite a few reasons. Step 5Rewiring the Capacitors Try fitting the board in and you'll find the capacitors cause the housing to not close properly. Step 6Create Label for Cartridge Now you can create a custom made label for the cartridge. Final Result! Thanks Engadget, LifeHacker, Joystiq, Instructables, Kotaku, Go Nintendo! Special Thanks to Scott Williamson, Veronica Stanley, & Ashley Adkins!

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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Erowid. Home – America Speaking Out. Vintage Eyewear and Sunglasses. Franco Brambilla. Cherri wood. Stencil Art...Creating Stencils - Online Tutorial at Melissa Clifton page 1. Classifieds for Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Help. Half.com. South Park Studios. Tech. Urban Legends Reference Pages. Skate. Alcoholic Beverage Control. 4chan. Download Reddit's College Cookbook pdf. Clothing. How to Feed Yourself for $15 a Week. Our discussion about how to eat for cheap generated a lot of great tips.

How to Feed Yourself for $15 a Week

Daiko shared a detailed explanation of how he once got by spending just $15/week on food. This is a great real-life example of how it’s possible to eat well without breaking the bank. I’m posting it here so that more people will see it. Although I don’t do this now, I once lived on $15 a week for food in the early 1990s. This was helped by the fact that my workplace fed me five meals a week, but I was still carrying the weight of sixteen additional meals (for slightly less than a dollar per meal). Here is some of what I did: Never allow leftovers to go bad.

There may have been other tricks that I’ve forgotten, but with only $15 to spend per week I had to think long and hard about buying anything that cost more than $1. It was much harder when I started this radical budget, because I started from nothing.