Etching DIY Circuit Boards (PCB)
Electronics hobbyists who have never ventured into the realms of making their own circuit boards, are missing out on half the fun. Here, we present a quick step-by-step guide to the UV light transfer...
View ArticleGreenhouse Farming in Japan
Japanese Winter temperatures plunge below freezing on a regular basis, despite skies often being bright, clear and sunny. In these low temperatures, seed germination is usually impossible and growth...
View ArticleMaking DIY CNC Clamps and Knobs – Free G-Code Download
There is nothing more frustrating than completing a lengthy DIY CNC design cut, only to find the wood or aluminium material block has moved during the program – rendering the material and entire...
View ArticleReplacing Japanese Tatami Mat Flooring
Tatami rooms are a wonderful part of many Japanese homes. They are elegant and stylish. But look up “Japanese tatami room” in any Japanese DIY handyman’s manual and within the first few paragraphs, any...
View ArticleNo Frustration Egg Deshelling – Making Perfect Eggs Every Time!
If there is anything that could make a free range chicken grin, then it would be this little snippet of time saving information. You know those occasional boiled eggs you get which have the soul...
View ArticleDIY Oven Build Using a Filing Cabinet
You did what? Hacked a filing cabinet to make a home DIY workshop oven?! Yes, perhaps we are crazy, but this DIY oven really IS made from a standard office filing cabinet and it works like a dream! It...
View ArticleLettuce Freeze
Fresh, abundant fruit and vegetables in year round supply are what most residents of the modern mega-cities of Japan have come to expect. People rarely stop to consider exactly how any of the fresh...
View ArticleMaking Miso from Soy Beans (Part 1) – Received our DIY kit.
Today at HomeDIYStuff.com, we received a project pack for making our own Miso. Miso is a very healthy, traditional food in Japan. It is a fermented bean paste that is extremely important in the...
View ArticleMaking Miso from Soy Beans – We’re all go!
A couple of weeks back we announced that we had received a DIY Miso making pack in preparation for our trek back into Japanese tradition and the ancient techniques of preparing this unique Japanese...
View ArticleLettuce Harvest in Japan
With greenhouses providing much of the warmth for germination and growth of lettuce seedlings in the Winter season, lettuce plants really don’t need much time in the ground in growing plots before...
View ArticleFixing a Dremel® Hand Held Rotary Drill – A Step-by-Step Guide
There comes a sad time when all great and trusty tools in the workshop begin to die from overuse. Murphy’s Law states that this must occur at the most inopportune time. In the case of our ever...
View ArticleMaking DIY Miso Paste with Soy Beans (Half Year Update)
Miso paste is an ancient Japanese preparation with origins dating back almost a thousand years. The pungent fermented food has an acquired taste, but is extremely healthy as an addition to many popular...
View ArticleOnion Harvesting Machines in Japan
Japanese onion harvesting machines save a huge amount of time and effort for the farmers of rural Japan. The machines automatically pull the individual plants from the ground, remove soil, cut away...
View ArticleMaking a Home DIY Metal Sheet Bender
We suddenly had the desperate need to bend stuff in the workshop! We are talking 2mm steel sheet. And we were not wanting to just destroy it with low quality folds either, but to effectively and...
View ArticleRice Paddy Planting
Japanese farmers have been in full force in their rice paddies in the last couple of weeks. As a result, once dry plots of farming land have suddenly been transformed into flooded lakes of emerging...
View Article
