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Top 10 Places to Find Awesome Things to 3D Print
3D printing is a great way to create something truly personal, make your awesome ideas reality, or just make perfect replacements for broken parts or components. If you’re stumped for ideas though, here are 10 great resources for you to get inspired, or just find something you’d like to have printed yourself.
Store Tea in Airtight Containers to Extend Shelf Life and Keep Flavors Intact
If you’re a stickler for a quality cup of tea you might want to obsess over more than just your brewing method. How you store your tea can affect its flavor and shelf life, and different teas have different shelf lives.
Make a Great-Smelling, Reusable Fruit Fly Trap
There are few ways to make a decent DIY fruit fly trap
, but this one also adds a fresh lemon scent to your kitchen. All you need is a small plastic container and a lemon.
Remains of the Day: BitTorrent Sync Will Soon be Called Resilio Connect
If you’re looking to download BitTorrent Sync
, the file-synchronization software that relies on peer-to-peer transfers instead of the cloud, you might think it’s vanished from the web. It’s not gone, it just has a new name.
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The Non-Awkward Way to Acknowledge Someone You Barely Know as You Walk By
You’re walking down the street when you see that friend of a friend you met at that thing. You don’t want to stop and have an awkward chat
, but you also don’t want to be rude. Here’s a simple eye contact trick that works every time.
Microsoft’s Official Guide for a DIY, Raspberry Pi-Powered Magic Mirror with Face Detection
Smart mirrors have been all the rage this year, and it looks like Microsoft’s getting into the game too. While Microsoft’s mirror is teased as a commercial product, they’ve released the source code if you’re interested in making one for yourself.
I Paid Someone $200 for Permission to Let My Baby Cry
In the spring of 2014, I paid a woman $200 for permission to let my eight-month-old son cry himself to sleep. Technically, what she did was (1) spend an hour drawing up a “sleep evaluation” based on a “walk-through audit” of my apartment and (2) have a brief chat with my husband and me. Those were nice touches, and they reassured us that she was giving us sound and thoughtful advice based on our particular flavor of dysfunctional exhaustion. But a few days later, as we began sleep training our son, and as the cloud of exhaustion began lifting from my eyes, I realized what had really happened. Her advice had been elaborate and carefully worded, but it boiled down to this: Leave the room. Go get some sleep. Let him cry. It will be fine. I wasn’t mad at her about this, but grateful. I respected her hustle. It was one of the better two hundreds I’ve ever spent.
Build a Sturdy, Heavy, and Simple Workbench for Around $65
Workbenches can make your life a lot easier if you work out of your garage. There are tons of variations
for building your own
, but over on Instructables, gearboxdesigns shows off a simple bench that’s pretty easy to make and comes in at around $65.
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