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		<title>Grape Jelly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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This year, our third season grapevine finally yielded fruit.  7 lbs!  I picked them all at one go, and decided to have my hand at canning.
I followed the first grape jelly recipe that I found on the internet, which basically said to peel the grapes, cook the grapes for a few minutes, set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Draw Yourself a Cool Glass of Beer</title>
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		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/draw-yourself-a-cool-glass-of-beer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Mark Frauenfelder linked to a really tasty looking &#8220;how to illustrate a glass of beer&#8221; Photoshop tutorial by Eren Göksel at PSDTUTS the other day. It looked so good, I just had to give it a whirl.  No matter how much you use Photoshop, you can always learn a new trick, and Eren has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quickie Projection Screen</title>
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		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/quickie-projection-screen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;ve borrowed a video projector and you&#8217;re finally going to host that Don Knotts film festival that you&#8217;ve always talked about.  Well, Cannonball Run II  doesn&#8217;t look that great on a beige wall, and you don&#8217;t have any white sheets to hang. Rest easy, with a trip to the fabric store and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Flashlightsaber</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/flashlightsaber/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/flashlightsaber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>

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I&#8216;m kind of getting lightsabered out. I promise that this will be my last mention of them for a while.
But I did have some leftover lightsaber making supplies sitting around after Halloween, so I used them to  build a &#8220;saber&#8221; that I could actually use.  In place of the blade, I installed a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Make Boots For Your Costume</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/make-boots-for-your-costume/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/make-boots-for-your-costume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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A rebel x-wing pilot just doesn&#8217;t look right in tennis shoes.  If your Halloween costume could benefit from a pair of jack boots, but you just don&#8217;t feel like forking over the $300, don&#8217;t despair.  You can make a pair of decent-looking costume boot  tops in pretty short order.

Make A Pattern
While wearing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to Make Iron-on Letters</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/how-to-make-iron-on-letters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/how-to-make-iron-on-letters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You say you need a yellow G for your Speed Racer costume but you couldn&#8217;t sew a stitch if your life depended on it?  Rest easy, you can make jiffy iron-on letters using some felt and your hot-glue gun.

There is probably a pre-glued interfacing material made just for this purpose, but I didn&#8217;t know [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Water Rocket Party</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/water-rocket-party/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/water-rocket-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Getting tired of pin the tail on the donkey? Bowling alley booked?  Well, we&#8217;ve found that newly-minted 5 year olds and friends like nothing more than to spend an hour decorating and launching their own water rockets. 
We&#8217;ve thrown this party twice now, and it was blast both times.  

Make The Rockets
Making the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>2 Miniute Dueling Lightsabers</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/2-miniute-dueling-lightsabers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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Whip up an impromptu set of lightsabers and have your little Jedi&#8217;s learning the way of the Force in minutes.  We made up this set of dueling sabers with some garbage and literally about 2 minutes of work.
The tubes that we used are the cores that are left over when the plotter at work [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Make an Opaque Projector</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/make-an-opaque-projector/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/make-an-opaque-projector/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just bought this gargantuan lens from American Science Surplus, and I recommend that you do the same as soon as possible.

Huge Lens
Even if you don&#8217;t plan to build a projector, telescope, or a big red pulsing HAL 9000 eye, you should pick up one of these lenses just to have sitting on your desk [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to Make Concrete Steps</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/how-to-make-concrete-steps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/how-to-make-concrete-steps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 23:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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Got a spot that needs a set of concrete steps?  Readymade wood stair stringers make great, easy forms for small concrete stair jobs.  Intended for use as a structural part of wooden staicases, they also save you the brainwork of figuring out the proper rise and run when bulding forms for concrete steps.

I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sand Scorcher Replica Progress</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/sand-scorcher-replica-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/sand-scorcher-replica-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automotive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I have noticed about model driver figures, is that they tend to end up with a really alarmed, kind of Marty Feldman on crack sort of bug-eyed stare. I thought that by toning down the “whites” of the eyes a bit, I could achieve a more relaxed look.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kid&#8217;s Draw Bot</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/kids-art-bot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/kids-art-bot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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As far as I&#8217;m concerned, you&#8217;re never too young to start mixing art with robotics.  
So, next time you and your budding young tinkerers need something to do on a rainy day, you should have no trouble scraping up the parts to put together this crude, drawing robot project that we saw at the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ramflo 1000 Firegurad FireGuard</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/ramflo-1000/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/ramflo-1000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 06:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automotive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/ramflo-1000/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/ramflo-1000/"><img src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/ramflo_thum.jpg" alt="ramflo_1000" /></a>Fire-guarding the Ramflo 1000 flamable air filter.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Make Your Own Ketchup</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/make-your-own-ketchup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/make-your-own-ketchup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/make-your-own-ketchup/"><img src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/ketchupThum.jpg" border="0" alt="ketchup" /> </a>You can make your own ketchup. Theoretically.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Build a Rocket Coaster</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/build-a-rocket-coaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/build-a-rocket-coaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/coaster_thum.jpg" class="alignleft" alt="rocket coaster" /> Build this Rocket-shaped belly board from 1951 vintage plans.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Make a Ball Clock From Rubbish</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/ball-clock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/ball-clock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/make-a-ball-clock-from-garbage/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/make-a-ball-clock-from-garbage/"><img border="0" src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/ball4Thum.jpg" alt="ball clock" class="alignleft"/></a> A tin can , some minor doodads and an old clockworks can be made into one of those swank, wall clocks that sell for up to $30 ($300.00).]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Erupting Volcano Cake</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/erupting-volcano-cake/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/erupting-volcano-cake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2005 06:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/?p=61"><img src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/cakeThum.jpg" alt="volcano cake" border="0" class="alignleft"/></a>Make an erupting volcano cake!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>68</slash:comments>
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		<title>Get your smoker under control</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/get-your-smoker-under-control/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/get-your-smoker-under-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2005 20:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/?p=36"><img border="0" width="72" class="alignleft" src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/bbqstat.jpg" alt="" /></a>Add a thermostat to your electric smoker.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Slot cars from static models</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/slot-cars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/slot-cars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2005 07:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automotive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/?p=34</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/?p=34"><img class="alignleft" border="0"  src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/cars3thum.jpg" alt="slot cars" /></a>Convert your static models to slot cars for endless hours of family fun.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Multi-purpose incubator</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/multi-purpose-incubator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/multi-purpose-incubator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2005 06:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/?p=31</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/?p=31"><img border="0" class="alignleft" src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/genic1Thum.jpg" alt="Acanthoscuria geniculata" /></a>  Simple incubator keeps things cozy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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