Do-It-Yourself Illustrated

Here is the “green project” of modifying of telescopic table lamp from 25 watts halogen to the 1.2 watts LED cluster. Slightly less brightness, but tremendous reducing of electricity consumption. IKEA table lamp LED upgrade

When I saw the bouncing ball with colour LED flashes inside,  I  guessed, that this can be used as red-blue-flashing outfit for toy police car. Having RC car that was missing them, I made this small top addition to the toy to entertain my son. First, we need to find outfit that will housing the [...]

The 6-volt batteries are sucks, this is a fact.  Besides very low capacity they also cost a fortune in “Toy-R-Us”. Being challenged by efficiency of my son’s ride-on jeep, I decided to rewire it to use normal lead-acid 12-volt battery. Though, the vehicle has two rear 12v motors with independent gears, it originally uses two [...]