Super Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things: Power Devices with Your Plants, Modify High-Tech Toys, Turn a Penny into a Battery, Make Sneaky Light-Up Nails and Fashion Accessories, and Perform Sneaky Levitation with Everyday Things
By Cy Tymony
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The popular Sneaky Uses series continues with an all-new volume of more than thirty outlandish inventions made from ordinary objects and materials.
Author and mad scientist Cy Tymony has turned his passion for tinkering into sneaky science movement, teaching parents and kids all over the world how to turn ordinary household items into amazing inventions. In this volume of his popular Sneaky Uses series, he shares more than thirty new projects, including homemade toys, games, fashion, science tricks, and more!
Each activity begins with a complete list of materials followed by easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, and helpful illustrations. Fans of all ages will use their ingenuity to turn everyday objects into something extraordinary with the help of Super Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things.
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Super Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things - Cy Tymony
INTRODUCTION
People rarely think about the common items they use in everyday life. Sure, they serve their purpose, but can they be used in any other ways? For many, the answer is a resounding, Yes!
You can perform amazing feats with ordinary items around you and with no special knowledge. How? By thinking differently about those items, to make sneaky uses of everyday things.
A sneaky person is curious enough to take things apart, examine them, and combine them with other items for fun and profit—and sometimes get themselves and others out of a jam. When you learn sneaky reuse techniques you also save money, become more self-reliant, and can pass on amazing techniques to your friends and family.
Did you know that you can turn a grocery bag into an air cannon? Or generate electricity with plants or a pencil? In a pinch, do you know what else a 9-volt battery can substitute for?
Super Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things provides you with these techniques and a lot more. In it you'll find innovative, do-it-yourself fashion crafts, sneaky games, and science projects using items you already have around the house. You'll never look at waste
in the same way again. With just a few easily obtainable supplies, you will have the makings of a personal sneaky craft lab.
Each of the projects in this book is designed to teach you how everyday items work and how they can be reused in practical and fun applications. The chapters that follow are crammed with more than thirty crafts and projects. From simple paper clip applications to unique techno-fashion innovations and toy modifications, these sneaky constructs are just the ticket for innovative fun.
One suggestion: Review this entire book before you start any project. The book is organized to help you understand and build on your sneaky skills from simple tricks all the way up to more complex gadget adaptations. And don't be intimidated; it's easy. You'll have a lot of fun thinking about the various crafts you can make and how to go even further with your own creations. You'll probably even modify some of the projects you learn and make them even sneakier!
Studying the Sneaky Fundamentals
section will give you an idea of what amazing new applications you can find for everyday objects. You'll learn sneaky sources for wire and how to connect things. And there's a special Sneaky Uses for a Paper Clip
section that you should not miss.
Professional crafters will enjoy Super Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things too. You'll find innovative techniques that will allow you to make items not seen anywhere else. All the projects are tested safe and can be completed in a short time.
After you make a project or two from this book, you'll be inspired to teach others your sneaky knowledge. Turning your discards into fun toys and making unique gifts for others is another benefit to discovering Super Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things.
Let's get started!
SNEAKY WIRE SOURCES
Ordinary wire can be used in many sneaky ways. You'll soon learn how it can be utilized to make a radio transmitter, a speaker, and more. When wire is required for sneaky projects, whenever possible try to use everyday items that you might otherwise have thrown away. Recycling metal will help save our natural resources.
Getting Wired
In an emergency, you can obtain wire—or items that can be used as wire—from some very unlikely sources. Figure 1 illustrates just a few of the possible items that you can use in case connecting wire is not available.
Ready-to-use wire can be obtained from:
Telephone cords
TV/VCR cables
Headphone wire
Earphone wire
Speaker wire
Wire from inside toys, radios, and other electrical devices
Note: Some of the sources above will have one to six separate wires inside.
Wire for projects can also be made from:
Take-out food container handles
Twist-ties
Paper clips
Envelope clasps
Ballpoint pen springs
Fast-food wrappers
Potato chip bag liners
You can also use aluminum from the following items:
Margarine wrappers
Ketchup and condiment packages
Breath mint container labels
Chewing gum wrappers
Trading card packaging
Coffee creamer container lids
FIGURE 1
Note: The wires used from the sources above are only to be used for low-voltage, battery-powered projects.
Use special care when handling fragile aluminum materials. In some instances, aluminum may be coated with a wax or plastic coating that you may be able to remove.
You can cut strips of aluminum material from food wrappers easily enough. With smaller items—such as aluminum obtained from a coffee cream container—use the sneaky cutting pattern shown in Figure 2.
Making resourceful use of items to make sneaky wire is not only intriguing, it's fun.
FIGURE 2
HOW TO CONNECT THINGS
The Getting Wired
project illustrated how to obtain wire from everyday things. Now you'll learn how to connect the wires to provide consistent performance. (A tight connection is crucial to the operation of electrical projects, otherwise faulty and erratic results may occur.)
Figure 1 shows a piece of insulated wire. The insulation material must be stripped away to make a metal-to-metal connection to other electrical parts. Strip away about one to two inches of insulation from both ends of the wire. See Figure 2.
To connect the wire to another wire lead, wrap both ends around each other, as shown in Figure 3.
FIGURE 1
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 3
When connecting the wire to the end of a stiff lead (such as the end of an LED), wrap the wire around the lead and bend the lead back over the wire. See Figure 4.
To connect the wire to the end of a small battery, bend the wire into a circular shape, place it on the battery terminal, and wrap the connection tightly with tape, as shown in Figure 5.
FIGURE 4
FIGURE 5
ELECTRICITY FUN-DAMENTALS
Many forms of alternative energy, including wind, thermal, hydro, even nuclear, are used to generate electrical power. This is accomplished by moving blades (wind or