你多休息一天有空吗？为什么不把它用在你的厨房、后院或娱乐中心呢？这里有几个伟大的项目，你可以在你的业余时间完成今天。

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厨房和烧烤项目

• Make a DIY Flower-Pot Smoker There are few things in this world as great as slow-cooked, **oked meat, but popular **okers can cost hundreds of dollars. Luckily, you can build your own with just a few flower pots, a hot plate, a skillet and a saucepan.
• Build The Cadillac of DIY Flower Pot Smokers to BBQ in Style Commercial egg-style **okers are extremely expensive. Put off by the high price one resourceful DIYer made an absolutely beautiful homemade **oker complete with stand, chimney, inlet damper, and other polished features.
• Beginner's Guide to DIY Coffee Bean Roasting The writers at gadget blog Tested love a good cup of coffee; today, Tested's Will Smith walks through how to roast your own coffee beans at home.
• Build a DIY Schaschlik Knife Block On the Cheap You could shell out $125 for a very clever Schaschlik knife block, or you could roll up your DIY sleeves and make your own version for less than $15 like blogger Chris Diclerico.
• Six Kitchen Skills You Can Pick Up This Weekend With a second three-day weekend coming up, you've probably got some real free time. If you're not on the road, might we recommend developing some new cooking chops? These relatively pain-free projects and how-tos are yours for the learning.
• Top 10 DIY Food Geek Projects The best-tasting food is the kind that comes from your own efforts, because victory tastes oh-so-sweet. Conquer KFC-style fried chicken, **oky barbecue, wood-fired pizza, five-minute bread, and other DIY delicacies with these great food-focused projects.

后院的乐趣

• Build a DIY Slip 'n Slide for Mega-Sized Fun Why settle for a little Slip 'n Slide when, for around the same price plus a little of your time, you could have a mega-sized-and possibly skull-fracturing-version? Build a super Slip 'n Slide with some basic supplies.
• Create Enormous Bubbles with a Super-Size DIY Bubble Wand Two years ago we shared a DIY bubble wand guide, but this amazing video-featuring a super-size version of that DIY bubble wand-prompted us to dig the old post out of the archives.
• How to Turn Your Backyard into a Bird Refuge If you'd like to see more wildlife of the feathered kind in your backyard but had written off attracting birds as too time-c***uming, expensive, or complicated, this simple guide will help you get started without much fuss or cost.
• Repurpose an Old Washing Machine as a Backyard Fire Pit Want a backyard fire pit but would like something more unique than your basic fire pit DIY? Check out how a clever user at DIY site Instructables made an attractive fire pit from a stainless steel washing machine drum.

电子游戏和家庭影院黑客

• Turn Your Old School Video Game Controller into a USB Gamepad Nowadays, a lot of popular c***oles have USB adapters for their gamepads, but if you really want that nostalgic feel, here's how to convert your old gamepad into a USB controller for your PC.
• How to Play SNES on Your iPad in Four Easy Steps The iPad's capable of 3D games and complex mobile applicati***, but if you'd rather go back to a simpler time, you can install an emulator (or three) on your iPad for some serious classic gaming.
• Speaker Placement Rules for Achieving Optimum Sound If you don't c***ider yourself an audiophile there's a good chance you placed your speakers based on where they'd look best-and stick out the least-rather than where they sounded ideal. Follow some basic speaker placement rules to optimize your setup.
• Build a Lego Router We love the Linksys WRT54GL router for its extreme hackability (it's what we used to turn our $60 router into a $600 router with DD-WRT or with Tomato), so we couldn't help but appreciate this fun WRT54GL Lego mod.
• Set Up a Geeky Media Center that Non-Geeks Can Actually Use I love messing with settings and geeky file-sharing programs. My spouse doesn't, but digs Hulu and appreciates free. So I set up a media center that satisfies my geek cravings but is actually easy-to-use for non-nerds. Here's what I pieced together.
• The Ultimate Start to Finish Guide to Your XBMC Media Center XBMC is a fantastic and free cross-platform media center application we're nuts for. If you've wanted to start using it or just wanted to customize the XBMC installation you're already running, this guide will walk you through everything, from installation to total customization.