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How to Cut Your Hair at Home
Ready to try giving yourself a trim? Let us help you avoid a DIY disaster.
How to Build a Solar Oven
Cook a variety of simple foods—or just heat up last night’s pizza—using our environment’s most accessible heating element.
The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair
The move follows an executive order issued last week by the White House urging the agency to secure consumers’ rights to fix their own gadgets.
You’re All Clear to Make an X-Wing Helmet Suncatcher!
Creativity // JULY 13, 2021 Now let’s craft this thing and go home. Ah, the cheerful summer sunshine is as bright as an exploding Death Star! (Both of them.) Capture a little bit of that energy and joy in a DIY that mimics a stained glass suncatcher. Anyone who spies it hanging in your window […]
Joe Biden Wants You to Be Able to Fix Your Own Damn iPhones
A sweeping new presidential directive includes, among other things, an initiative to secure consumers’ right to repair their own devices.
This DIY Bad Batch Cup Sleeve Gets the Job Done
Creativity // JUNE 15, 2021 Clone Force 99 has a new mission: protect your hands from hot and cold drinks. The Bad Batch have a 100% success rate, and so will you with this how-to! Inspired by Hunter and the other members of Clone Force 99 — as seen in Star Wars: The Bad Batch, now streaming […]
The Colorful, Costly World of Custom Keyboard Enthusiasts
Hobbyists spend hours building their own personalized rigs, while others drop thousands of dollars on a bespoke board. The hype is only getting bigger.
Make Your Space Cozy with a DIY Bad Batch Lula Doll
Star Wars fans know each member of squad in the Bad Batch (the focus of a new Original Series on Disney+) and can list them all by name. But there’s one more teammate you might forget to count: Lula! Wrecker’s black and red tooka doll is a trusty companion for the clones, especially Omega, and proves the […]
SimpliSafe Is a Hassle-Free Way to Secure Your Home
Is this home monitoring ecosystem really simple and safe? We tried it out for six months.