Souped Up

Ever look around your house and get bored with the things you have? Too ordinary? Used it a million times? With Instructables.com’s latest compilation, Souped Up, you can turn your ordinary into the extraordinary. Learn how to:

• • Brew a cup of coffee with Twitter
• • Make ice cubes crystal clear
• • Build a tape dispenser out of Legos
• • Light up your bicycle with LEDs
• • Turn your shower into a spa
• • Make your Nerf gun even cooler

Compiled from the best that the web has to offer, Souped Up is the latest book from Instructables.com and Skyhorse Publishing. Over a thousand full-color images and easy-to-understand how-to instructions make this collection the perfect gift for anyone never satisfied with the status quo. Ever thought “I could improve that”? These authors did too, and we’ve put together their best ideas for upgrades, hacks, and everything you need to get the most out of everything.

Instructables.com is a bona fide online sensation, a web-based community of motivated do-it-yourselfers who contribute invaluable how-to guides to the site on a wide range of topics, from gardening and home repair to recipes and gadgets that defy categorization.

A photographer, skateboarder, and artist, Michael Huynh is an enthusiastic maker with eclectic interests. Michael has been an Instructables fan since the website's inception, and the opportunity to collect a book of his favorite "souped up" projects was one he could never have imagined when he was 13 visiting the Instructables workshop in the Alameda Naval Air Station control tower.