James Sarah - How to Do Absolutely Everything: Homegrown Projects from Real Do-It-Yourself Experts

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ISBN: 978-1-62087-066-2

Printed in China

Welcome to How to Do Absolutely Everything! Inside youll find hundreds of useful tips and tricks to get you on the path to doing absolutely everything. Whether youre a beginner or a pro, youre sure to find something you never knew before. Learn how to solder, how to bake bread, how to make your workshop more efficient, how to water ski, a dozen new uses for duct tape, and how to turn trash into treasure. Roll up your sleeves and get started!

instructables.com is the most popular project-sharing community on the Internet. We provide easy publishing tools to enable passionate, creative people like you to share their most innovative projects, recipes, skills, and ideas. instructables has over 80,000 projects covering all subjects, including crafts, art, electronics, kids, home improvement, pets, outdoors, reuse, bikes, cars, robotics, food, decorating, woodworking, costuming, games, and more.

Sarah James

The wonderful thing about instructables is that they come in all shapes and sizes. Some users include hundreds of high-quality pictures and detailed instructions with their projects; others take the minimalist approach and aim to inspire similar ideas rather than facilitate carbon copies.

One of the biggest questions we faced when putting this book together was: How do we convey the sheer volume of ideas in the finite space of a book?

As a result, if youre already familiar with some of the projects in this book, youll notice that only select photos made the jump from the computer screen to the printed page.

Similarly, when dealing with extensive electronic coding or complex science, weve suggested that anyone ready to start a project like that visit the instructables online page, where you often find lots more images, links, multimedia attachments, and downloadable material to help you along the way. This way, anyone who is fascinated by the idea of converting a car to run on trash can take a look here at the basic steps to get from start to finish. Everything else is just a mouse click away.

T ie on your apron, and lets get cooking! In this chapter youll learn everything from how to make butter and rice to how to make fresh cheese and milk an almond. Be sure to bookmark the worlds best chocolate chip cookie recipe, and everyone will love you once youve mastered the 5-minute cake!