Mechanical Mashup DIY for the common guy

Here is a really quick tip for those of you that travel by air. How to take a barf bag and fold it into a phone holder so you can watch your own videos on a flight.

Canada’s Greatest Know-it-all contestant Ben Eadie shows you how to avoid gluing your PVC projects together but instead using a simple pin to fix everything together Gluing PVC together to keep a project together can be a pain in the butt some times. First its messy, second It makes for items that are too large [...]

Camera obscura is well obscure. But just a few minutes can turn your house into a seriously cool science lab / camera. How many of you can say you stood in the middle of a camera? Check it out!

With a 4 inch piece of 3/4 PVC and 10 min you can have a tripod mount for your phone

Here is a inexpensive super easy kettle bell that you can travel with and avoid having to get intimate with the airport security. http://www.fourhourbody.com/ Here are Tims videos on the Tbar and the Kettlebell swing T Bar Kettlebell swing

Dave is a space cadet going to space with his phone and a depleting the peak helium supply for frivolous reasons on this episode

This will show you how to save 50 bucks, donero, bone, cash, scratch, moola, change, bills, loot, cashoruny, cashola, loonies, dollars….. By making a smart phone holder for your iPhone, Android, CrackBerry or other smart phone holder…. Enjoy

Today we have a fan submission to the show. Darren Lundrum from The Eternal Prototyper . Follow him up on twitter as well. He has some mad music skills and you should go and check his stuff out! The links mentioned in the cast: http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/pdf/Slide_rule.pdf http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/cms_misc/media/library/build_your_own_astrolabe.pdf  

Dave shows a really cool mod to make a great hot wire foam cutter

How to make a silicone mold in your kitchen on the cheap! Also how to become a play-dough hero for your kid… The mixture ratio is: 50% Silicone, 50% cornstarch, and mineral spirits to thin. Thats it! The mixture will set up in 5-15 min and cure in 24hours