Posts Tagged ‘diy’

Make Great Iced Coffee with Coffee Ice Cubes

Make Great Iced Coffee with Coffee Ice Cubes

There’s nothing better than waking up to a hot cup of joe on a cold winter morning. And while it’s also great during the warmer seasons, often times you may want a cooler beverage to get you through the day. Nowadays, you can drive by Starbucks or any fast food place that serves breakfast and ...

4 Makeshift DIY Phone Stands for Your Desk

4 Makeshift DIY Phone Stands for Your Desk

Forget keeping a stack of books on your desk to hold your phone up; and don’t even think about buying an expensive case or stand. There are plenty of things you may have lying around that make a perfectly good DIY phone stand. Here are four quick and easy solutions for the times when you ...

Simple DIY: Orange Candle

Simple DIY: Orange Candle

If you’re looking to get a little extra out of your citrus fruit, an orange candle is a great way to start. It’s aesthetically pleasing for either ambiance or emergency situations. You’ll need the following: Orange (more than one if you’re not confident in your peeling ability) Plate or cutting board (skip if you dare) ...

3 All-Natural Odor Removers You Probably Already Have

3 All-Natural Odor Removers You Probably Already Have

You could go ahead and invite that company over or you could do some modest cleanup first. Should you choose the latter (and you’re going to choose the latter) you’re going to have come up with a better way to kill the dirty laundry smell than spraying it with perfume. Cuz they’ll know. They always ...

DIY Smartphone Gloves

DIY Smartphone Gloves

Thanks to capacitive touchscreens, which use the conductive power of the human body to activate, winter becomes a tough time to use a smartphone. But with a little old fashion hacking, we’ll solve that problem. We’re going to turn your favorite pair of gloves into static generating smartphone gloves using the power of conductive thread. ...

Waterproof Your Canvas Bag with Wax

Waterproof Your Canvas Bag with Wax

Going to college these days means that you are almost assuredly carrying some electronic gadget with you in your bag or backpack at any given time. A particularly expensive and likely highly beloved gadget at that. So what if you get caught in a sudden snowstorm, or if you, like me, live in a place ...

Stay Warm with These Winter Heating Tips

Stay Warm with These Winter Heating Tips

For college students living in a rental home, frugality tends to take precedent over comfort. So chances are, you or a few of your roommates are obstinantly refusing to touch the thermostat in favor of being bundled in blankets. Luckily, the DIY experts of Stack Exchange are here to help you stay warm this Winter by telling ...

Make DSLR Lens Case with Plastic Bottles

Make DSLR Lens Case with Plastic Bottles

As a former photography student, I know that taking good care of your lenses is paramount. After shelling out a few hundred for a DSLR telephoto lens, you want to make sure that its as secure as Fort Knox before taking it anywhere. But sometimes it hurts to spend another $50-$100 buying something designed for ...

How To Make Your Own Taco Seasoning On The Cheap

How To Make Your Own Taco Seasoning On The Cheap

Taco Tuesday’s missing ingredient: your own signature blend of seasoning. Who doesn’t love tacos? Name someone that doesn’t like tacos and I’ll show you a bold-faced liar. My understanding of the taco is that it was birthed after a plane crashed into a spice-filled unicorn-cow-hybrid in mid air, landing over a corn field which promptly ...

10 Online Food Delivery Services You Should Know About

10 Online Food Delivery Services You Should Know About

The number of nights where I lay in bed after a final with a petrified mind and body are countless. That being said, the chances that my section of the refridgerator has any consumable food is about zero percent. I realize that there are college students out there who decorate their fridge with a rainbow ...

Use Winter Break to Make Something Cool

Use Winter Break to Make Something Cool

If the thought of heading back to your hometown for winter break has you bummed out, you’re not alone. Leaving college friends, obeying parental rules if you’re still living with them, and negotiating the family drama that holidays bring out is never fun. If you’re staying on campus, there might not be that many people ...

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