Tomorrow is the start of the most glorious affair in the macrocosm : a three - solar day weekend . With all that time on your hands , you’re able to marathon those DVDs you ’ve been saving , or re - read George R.R. Martin . But there ’s also another way you could use this foresighted weekend : progress your very own golem , or TARDIS , or Batarang from lucre . Because there ’s nothing geekier than making something cool with your own hands .
Here are 12 geeky projects you’re able to do yourself , from scratch , over the Labor Day weekend .
Top image : Doucette TARDIS , Punk Projects , andMuddy Boots Blog .
The internet is full of instructions on how to make your own Police Box . For object lesson , there ’s theBlue Box Project , which has tons of instructions and helpful diagram . Also , the instructional telecasting at leave alone is precious and mayhap helpful . And then there ’s theTARDIS Builders Manual(PDF ) , which is just chock full of helpful details . And here’sa video on how to make a TARDIS bookcase . Also , Wiki - Howalso has teaching that allow you to scale the TARDIS to your personal time travelling needs . Or if your big cat is the Time Lord of the house , make him or her aTARDIS fort . Unfortunately neither is bigger on the inside than the outside .
There ’s also aprojectconverts a Barbie doll into your very own mini - Weeping Angel . It call for a destiny of hot mucilage , and the willingness to rend Barbie ’s arms off .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-MgYD-bQSM
What better way to spend Labor Day than make your new automaton overlord ? steer over to Lets Make Robots for your firstrobot tutorial , which will wind up see sort of like Wall - E. If all the telegram and circuitry intimidate you or you just want a minion to show your human favourable position over maybe the solar poweredcockroach virbobotis the project for you .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2lsW47Dmw
Candy is awing . Harry Potter is awesome . Combining the two , for a vacation weekend hopped up on sugar , is a great idea . You also win fillip points if your confections gross out all your friends . If you do n’t mind spending some time in the kitchen and feel adventuresome make somejelly slug , cockroach clustering , orpeppermint toads . Or you could make a more normal desert likespotted dick . At left : a video on how to make your own butterbeer .
Enjoy your last summer cookout in vogue , with yourStar Trek apron . You will demand to wear out out the stitching simple machine for this one . I do n’t advise the red shirt apron though — especially if you ’re conk to be standing next to an open flame while barbecuing . It never ends well .
With declination coming , it ’s time to move the gardening and zombie - slaying indoors . UsingTwig Terrariumscool pieceas inhalation , you’re able to design your own little garden of horrors . Set up either amoss terrariumor a moretraditional terrarium , and populate it with the undead . Miniatures used for model train set work well for this , but you ’re believably go to have to rough them up yourself to create undead characters .
The day are fetch curt , but do n’t let the failing light source bankrupt your aim . This homemadelaser guided slingshotcould animate up your evening barbeques , or make your neighbors way too well-fixed of a fair game .
I ’m not sure a craft project perplex more geeky then this . Legend of Zelda . Chainmaille . Dice Bag . This seem like anexcellent tutorial , and a corking project for the slimly OCD . As the source says , “ Making chainmaille is n’t hard . The unvoiced part is actually eat up it . ”
DIY pinhole cameras combine a skill fair projection with artistry . Here is a lean of23 separate television camera tutorialsthat can be made for costless or comparatively little cost . The photos bring forth have an interesting tone and imagine the reaction you get when telling your protagonist you build the camera .
It is still hurricane season — and really , any time of class , a raw tragedy could make long - term power outage . Or perchance you are the kind of person that needs to blame your phone on a camping head trip . This DIY solar charger using an Altoid ’s cannister can organise you for a lack of electricity . There is a tutorial for astandard USB port wine and anIphone / Ipod charger .
This super easylight sabertutorial allows you to enjoy your last day of summer dueling it out in the puddle . Just impart canal tape recording and a body of water system . More tutorialshereandhere .
ThisPortal theme office tutorialcould fill up your intact weekend with geeky home improvement . If you are n’t look for that much commitment of time and energy you might consider the item-by-item projects : test chamber panel wall with Aperture logo , Cave Johnson oil house painting , combustible lemonsorlight up test chamber sign .
survive out your Arkham Asylum fantasy with your own Batarang . Thisfolding , Plexiglas replicadoes require some tools to make — but seriously , if you are making this , you are probably into gadgets anyway . This projection will provide a squeamish break when tec modality starts render you a headache .
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