Season 12 features the following hacks:
- How to fix an ugly dent on your car’s bumper
- Make a secret hiding place for your duplicate keys
- How to make a coin separator
- How to make an electric helicopter at home
- How to make a mini vacuum cleaner
- How to make a ring box camera
- Make a simple, cheap non-contact voltage detector circuit
- 10 WD40 hacks you can use around your house
- How to make a mini Tesla coil
- Cloud lamp
- How to make a cute robotic toy snake
- How to make a USB solar charger
- How to repair a dead laptop battery
- How to make an extremely simple electric train
- How to make a sonic paper rocket launcher
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A HACK A DAY: Present running season
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How to fix an ugly dent on your car’s bumper:
If you managed to get a dent in your car’s bumper, you don’t need to rush immediately to the service center to get it fixed. The bumper is made from plastic and can be easily fixed at home. All you need is some water and you’re ready to go. Check out the video which explains how you can get it done.
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Make a secret hiding place for your duplicate keys:
So you forgot to take your keys along and are now locked out of your house or room? Having a duplicate key is the best option, but the main question is ‘where do you keep them?’ Why not create a secret hiding place for your keys? Storing your duplicate keys under the doormat or above the sill is an old trick. This video will show you someplace awesome. Check it out
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How to make a coin separator:
Almost everyone out there have a tiny liking towards collecting coins. Be it a child or grownup, everyone likes collecting coins. You simply put your daily coins or collections into a small coin bank at home and later, when they are full, you start sorting them manually into different values. However, if you want the coins to be sorted automatically each time you put it into the coin bank, you can make a super simple gadget right at home. All you need to do is simply put the coin in the slot and the gadget will automatically sort the coins by size and put them in the respective chambers. Check out how you can make your own coin separator or coin sorter at home under just Rs 100.
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How to make an electric helicopter at home:
In a mood for a DIY? Today’s hack is just for you! We bring you a simple exercise of building an electric helicopter, with most things easily available at home. It will barely cost you any money but you sure will end up feeling like a genius at the end of the DIY.
Here how it’s done, watch and learn:
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It’s Sunday! Oops! Did you just notice fine dust particles in unreachable corners of your computer keyboard or any of the room corners. This invites you to get ready with the cleaning up process. Vacuum cleaners can be of great help, isn’t it? You can make a mini vacuum cleaner at home within an hour.
You will need a transparent tape, electric tape, cutter, scissors, hair dryer motor with a dc motor, empty bottle, a piece of flexible tube, 9 walt batteries, battery clips, driller etc. Cut the bottle into half and attach the blower with the help of electric tapes.
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How to make a ring box camera
Those in love and planning to get married in the future would love this simple DIY. When you propose to him or her, you wait to see that excitement and surprise on your partner’s face. You do not want to miss it for anything in the world. However, you cannot capture the exact moment with your camera or smartphone. Most times, you don’t get the perfect timing or simply forget you have to record it. Most times, you don’t even have the opportunity because it could spoil the moment when he or she looks at a camera pointing to her. So why not hide a spy camera inside the gift box? It will do the job for you, and you won’t miss any moment—be it the answer or the surprised expression of your partner. The video here shows you how you can rig a ring box with a spy camera to capture that precious moment. You can use the same trick for gift boxes during other occasions such as wedding gifts, birthdays, valentine days and festivals. Check out how you can make a ring box camera.
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Make a simple, cheap non-contact voltage detector circuit:
Using a simple electricity tester is one way of checking if your wire is live with electric current running through it. However, it needs you to touch the contact for the tiny light to glow. There are non-contact electricity testers available in the market and these detect electric current flowing through the wire without the need of touching it. The device can be simply placed near the live wire and the induction of electricity into the antenna helps alert the user (either via a light or buzzer) that there is electricity flowing in the wire. We show you a simple video on how you can build one of these circuits at home.
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10 WD40 hacks you can use around your house:
All mechanics and techies know what WD40 is. For those who don’t—it is a lubricant spray and also acts as a moisture repellant. There are more than 2000 uses of WD40 where it can be applied to automobiles, repairs, construction, farming, hobby and crafts, overhauling, and many more. In the video here, we show you 10 hacks where you can use WD40, apart from what the spray is actually used for.
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The Tesla coil is nothing but a high voltage generator. It is an electrical resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891 and is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity. Tesla coils can produce output voltages from a hundred kilovolts to several million volts for large coils. These coils are very popular devices among certain electrical engineers and electronics enthusiasts. Builders of Tesla coils as a hobby are called "coilers". If you want t build your own Tesla coil at home, here is a video on how you can build a mini coil at home with a few inexpensive parts.
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Feel like getting creative each day? What about welcoming the clouds inside your house! Make a jazzy cloud lamp all by yourself and decorate your room. This will create a decorative magical light effect in your room.
In order to make a glowing cloud lamp, you need to first imagine how you would want your cloud lamp to look. This will allow you to decide on the amount of puffy cotton, LED lights and number of lanterns required in the process of making this unique masterpiece!
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How to make a cute robotic toy snake
A robotic snake looks quite fancy and could be a favourite toy for many! Have you ever tried making one at home?
In order to make a simple snake toy, you just need to cut an electrical wire channel in 7 pieces to make the different parts of the creature. The head part of snakes gets an oscillation motion because of this circuit and the motors. This oscillation is then moved down along the body towards the tail, giving a snake like body movement to the toy.
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How to make a USB solar charger
Battery is the main backbone of smartphones, tablets, phablets etc. Tech companies have been launching several wireless chargers to help you charge your handsets on the go!
However, if your portable powerbank dies before charging your phone, imagining a journey without checking your phone sounds quite scary. Isn’t it? In such instances, absence of sockets and failure of powerbanks can often make you feel handicapped for not being able to contact anyone due to zero battery life of your handset.
Solar chargers can come to your rescue! All you need is rechargeable batteries, a controller board, wires, and a few applicable tools. Learn how to make a USB solar charger here.
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How to repair a dead laptop battery
Laptop batteries usually have a life span of around 1.5 – 2 years. However, if you are lucky enough you should get another year or so, but many are not as fortunate and end up with just around a year’s battery life. Laptop batteries are usually made using a few Lithium-ion cells placed in series and parallel combinations to get the require power rating and voltage. Some laptops have a 3-cell battery, while others have a 6-cell or 9-cell. Each cell inside the battery pack is a regular 18650 Li-ion cell. The main reason for the batteries going dead is the internal dead cells. So the only option you have is to replace the entire battery pack, and your laptop is back online again. This can be a costly affair, but more than the cost is the availability. No two laptops have the same battery pack, and even worse, laptop manufacturers don’t stock compatible batteries for long. This forces you to do away with your laptop for lack of battery replacements. But what if we tell you that you can repair the laptop battery yourself and have it working as good as new? Yes, all you need to do is to carefully pry open the battery pack and replace the internal cells with new ones. The hack shown here will guide you on replacing the batteries yourself. All you need is basic soldering skills and a multimeter, apart from a few new 18650 cells that you can buy online.
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Today’s DIY video shows you how you can make one of the simplest electric trains using some copper wire, a few magnets and a single battery. The miniature train works on the principle of magnetism, where the copper coil induces a magnetic field with the help of the battery which propels the magnets forward. Making the toy train is very easy and you can build it within an hour and in a low budget of Rs 200 or less. Check the video which shows you how the train works and how you can build one at home.
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Move away from tech and come down to ‘BOY TOYS’—here is how you can make a simple, yet efficient, sonic paper rocket launcher. All you will need is a paper roll fuselage and a few pipes with an option for compressed air fixture. If needed, you can also make use of a bicycle pump for air pressure. Check out the video which shows you a complete step-by-step procedure on how you can make it at home.
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