Knitting your first jumper is one of the big milestones every knitter wants to achieve and with this guide, we breakdown all the steps of how to knit a sweater to show you that even a beginner can knit a jumper! The stitches to learn, considerations to make along the way and the answer...
The longer the rope, the longer it takes to complete one jump cycle. Athletes who want to maximize speed must pay attention to rope length then. Inexperienced jumpers need to pay attention, too, because a fast rope requires more skill to handle than a slow or medium paced one. Generally,...
The main reason you don’t want to hook up a car jump starter directly to the negative battery terminal is that doing so can create sparks. If the battery isn't working due to having been overcharged or due to an internal fault, it may be full of flammable vapors, which can seep out...
This Instructable will provide a step by step procedure for building a USB laptop keyboard and touchpad controller. I created this guide and video to hopefully make it easier for people to re-purpose an old laptop. A typical laptop relies on the motherboard for the keyboard scanning and touchp...
Now the drive is ready to go. Install the optical drive next. Again, set the jumpers correctly. The drive fits in the front of the case, and you may have to pop out a faceplate to make room for it. Slide it in and screw it into place, making sure that it's aligned with the ...
Some competitions don't allow the use of tape. You can still use this strategy to build the tower, but you'll have to find a way to make the girders stay together by making small cuts in the ends of the paper and folding them together. Be sure your hands are clean when doing this...
and I can't imagine anything more satisfying within the hardware community than having successfully built your own custom water-cooled machine.You'll be in a rarer, elite category of PC builders that had the courage and the know-how (and let’s face it, the wallet) to make it all ...
The type of wave you ride regularly has a lot to do with what board you should be riding. Make sure you understand what kind of conditions you’re going to be heading out on. If you’re just looking to cruise around on some ankle-biters, you’ll make different decisions for board cho...
Whatever you choose, make sure that it’s an E-ATX case. That’s a standard used for full-size PCs, and it’s important to pick the right motherboard. There are smaller cases for tiny PCs, but in this article, we’ll focus on mid-sized to large PC towers, because they allow for...
For BASE jumpers, leaping out of an airplane at 15,000 feet and freefalling at well over 100 mph isn't quite daring enough. To make things more interesting, they jump off various cliffs and man-made objects, usually at a low altitude with only a few seconds to deploy the parachute, ...