Table of Contents
Introduction vii
Section 1 Summer Hacks 1
Ten Life Hacks You Need to Know for a Better Summer! 2
How to Make a PVC Water/Air/Vacuum Pump! 8
Smash the Summer Heat with These DIY Water Weapons! 14
Homemade Sparklers for the Fourth of July! Improvised Handheld Fireworks 17
Section 2 Food Hacks 21
Make an Edible Apple Swan! 22
Healthier Living by Making Butter (Shaking Cream into Butter) 26
How to Make a Self-Freezing Coca-Cola (or Any Instant-Soda Slurpee) 30
Make It Rain Down Chocolate for Real! How to Make Your Own Pneumatic Candy Cannon! 34
Make a Butter Candle, MacGyver-Style! 38
Fight Club Soap (Bacon and Drain Cleaner Soap)! 42
Section 3 Special-Occasion Hacks 49
Ten Life Hacks You Need to Know for Christmas! 50
Pie-Rotechnic Thanksgiving Dessert (Mega Dangerous)! 55
Top Nine Ways to Fold Awesome Holiday Napkins! 58
How to Make an Exploding Pumpkin Face (Blast-O-Lantern) 63
How to Make Carbonated Ice Cream, "Halloween-Style" (Dry Ice Cream)! 65
Things to Do at a Birthday Party with Liquid Nitrogen! 69
Section 4 Money-Saving Hacks 77
How to Make a Super Secret Safe for Less Than $3 78
$5 Home Theater for March Madness 83
Make a Real Working Speaker for Less Than $1! 88
How to Make a One-Way Check Valve for Cheap! 93
Section 5 Water, Ice, and Dry Ice Hacks 99
Awesome Tricks and Pranks with Dry Ice! 100
Instant Ice: How to "Water-Bend" in Real Life 104
How to Make Dry Ice with a Fire Extinguisher! 108
How to Convert Water into Fuel by Building a DIY Oxyhydrogen Generator 112
Section 6 Energizing Hacks 117
The Scariac (Poor Man's Variable Power Controller) 118
Make an Emergency Phone Charger, MacGyver-Style! 120
How to Make Batteries from Spare Change 124
330-Volt "Shocking" Electric Deck of Cards (Electric Shock Kissing Prank)! 127
Section 7 Metal Hacks 133
Making an ARC Welder (Part One) 134
Making an ARC Welder (Part Two) 139
Homemade Stick Welder from Microwave Parts! 145
How to Make a Spot Welder for Cheap! 150
How to Make the Metal Melter 158
Section 8 Miscellaneous Hacks 163
How to Make Char Cloth with a Tuna Can 164
How to Make Slime (Ninja Turtle Ooze) 168
How to Make a Gravity Puzzle (Brain Game) 171
Turn a Mousetrap into a Powerful Handgun 175