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My First Duct Tape Wallet!

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The power of inspiration!

Today is my birthday and I looked around google & youtube for “amazing wallet” and found a couple of really interesting “Duct Tape Wallet” and their instructions on how to make one!!

My brother ultimately bought me a new wallet for my birthday but I am very inspired by those 14 – 15 years old making a living selling duct tape wallets!

So comes my decisions to buy two rolls of duct tapes (black & white), a box cutter, plastic name card holder and the rest of the already have materials like cutting mat, ruler, zip lock bag and a little aluminum foil.

Total cost is about $15 but can be cheaper if I didn’t buy the box cutter haiz.

So first I decide the design and immediately make the cut! 

Then I cut many 0.5 cm strips for later use :D

I never follow other people’s measurement but my own new wallet instead! More strips!

I taped up the front of the strips and proceed to make the woven checker box design!

The beginning I’m struggling to keep it tight

Eventually I managed to tighten all the strips after many many rough touches and eventually it worked!

Now for the standard folds for the bill notes :D

The center fold for more credit cards

I inserted some aluminum foil to prevent RFID credit card theft but not sure if it will work.

Added 4 credit card slots! Nice!

The checkered design suppose to be at the back making one more folds for more bill slots

I.D. slots preparation, eventually I didn’t go with the frame method but just taped the sides as it’s really difficult! hehe.

More credit card slots! Total of 8 slots!

Finally completed the duct tape wallet with a zip lock coin bag!!

Cleaned up my room for New Year! :D

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The new year is coming! Yes!! 2012 is approaching fast and it’s the time of the year again!

This time I had used one of the ideas from lifehacker on how to keep your cables neatly with toile rolls! and modified it to make toilet roll as cable tie!

Now with the cables neatly tucked into the toilet rolls, they are totally off the floor making it neat & tidy!

Together with my external hard disk enclosure idea, my table is neater then before!

I do hope everyone can have a great merry Christmas & happy Holidays ahead!!

How to make a $5 DIY External Hard Disk enclosure

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I had woken up with sun shine on my face & it’s another day of my life :D

Today, I had decided to make a difference…my table is getting really untidy and it’s very very irritating to be playing & working on a untidy table.

After eating lunch while watching the latest episode of Nikita, I cleaned up my table & DIY a hard disk enclosure! :D

I had been planning for the External Hard disk enclosure for two days, I bought the plastic case yesterday at the neighborhood shops near bukit batok MRT beside kopitiam for just SGD $5!!

Then I used a heavy duty scissors to “drill” some holes on the top of the casing in a systematic design, subsequently I used a pocket knife to cut holes in between the drawers for ventilation & for the USB cables to pass through.

The design concept goal is simple, to hide all the untidy cables & external hard disk from my already messy table.

Here’s the result! :D

Most people will ask me how to solve the heat problem first I drills holes on the top & in between the slots.

Then I found a usb laptop fan that can fold the legs in so it fit neatly below the DIY HDD enclosure!

This way the enclosure heat can dissipate upwards and everything should work properly for some time.