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PlayStation Plus 5-Year Subscription Deal

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Save 26% on a 5-year subscription to PlayStation Plus. With this purchase, you’ll get five stackable 1-year codes at a discounted price, providing access to Sony’s online multiplayer gaming community, free games each month, cloud storage, and PlayStation Store discounts.

Retro Rifle Arcade Series 1 Shirt

Retro Rifle Arcade Series 1 Shirt
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Go back to the ’80s with Retro Rifle’s arcade shirt. The black short-sleeve shirt is covered with vibrant neon pixel art inspired by the classic arcade shooter Galaga. It’s made from a custom blend of materials designed for stretch, durability, and sweat resistance. The first in a series of four arcade shirts.

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Making a Tiny TV

Making a Tiny TV

We live in strange times – TV sets are getting larger, yet we watch much of our video on smartphone screens. The Q went even smaller with this build – a teensy working television set with a wood and metal cabinet. He used an Apple Watch as the display, and its curved corners make it look like an old-school CRT.

The Battle of San Romano

The Battle of San Romano

Inspired by the 15th-century painting The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, animator Georges Schwizgebel imagined the movement that played out on the battlefield in the moments leading up to the scene in the original painting. Each frame was hand-painted with acrylics.

Using PVC for Survival

Using PVC for Survival

PVC is quite the versatile material. It can be used for plumbing, building support structures, or even storage units. In this clip, SensiblePrepper shows us 17 different ways you can use various sizes of PVC pipe and fittings to help you survive when things go south. His ideas include weapons, tools, storage vessels and a makeshift canteen.

Fake Books

Fake Books

Puebco’s library of weathered and tattered books look completely realistic, but they’re actually secret storage boxes. To make their contents even less appealing to would-be thieves, they come in such fascinating titles as “3208 Industrial Engine Parts Book” and “Rapid Identification (Spot Testing) of Some Metals and Alloys.”

Retro ’80s TV Clock

Retro ’80s TV Clock

1980s technology had a certain futuristic vibe to it. Maker MarcioT shows off a sweet ’80s-inspired clock he made using an old CRT television and a digital clock he programmed onto an ESP32 microcontroller. The build instructions are available on Instructables with the source code for the Dali Clock on Github.

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Tesla Autopilot vs. Tail of the Dragon

Tesla Autopilot vs. Tail of the Dragon

US Route 129 aka “Tail of the Dragon” is one of America’s greatest and most daunting roads. With 318 curves over its 11 miles, it’s claimed more than a few vehicles and lives. CGP Grey took his dad’s Tesla there to see how the car’s “self-driving” beta handled the twisty and turny road. Uncut drive footage here.

Slugfest (Trailer)

Slugfest (Trailer)

Marvel and DC Comics have been rivals for decades. Produced by the Russo Brothers, this documentary series explores the history of the two comic book juggernauts and their friendly and not-so-friendly competition over the years. Narrated by Kevin Smith and premiering on The Roku Channel on 12.24.21.

The One Million Dollar Puzzle

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Art collective MSCHF created this combination jigsaw puzzle and sweepstakes which will give one lucky winner a million-dollar prize. Just complete the 500-piece puzzle and scan the QR code with your phone to find out which prize you won: 25 cents, $100, $1000, $10,000, or $1,000,000.

My Sweet Lord Music Video

My Sweet Lord Music Video

It’s been 50 years since George Harrison’s solo album All Things Must Pass was released. To celebrate, Harrison’s family and director Lance Bangs created a music video for the classic My Sweet Lord, with a star-studded cast including Mark Hamill, Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and Jon Hamm.

Star Wars Spacecraft Workshop Manuals

Star Wars Spacecraft Workshop Manuals
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Star Wars fans can dive deep into three iconic spacecraft with these Haynes Owners Workshop Manuals. The books delve into the design, engineering, and inner workings of the Millennium Falcon, X-Wing Fighter, and TIE Fighter. There’s also a Death Star manual.

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The Clink Room Baseball Caps

The Clink Room Baseball Caps
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The Clink Room produces apparel designed by independent artists. Their hats are especially great, with bold images that look like team mascots. Each design is printed onto a New Era 59Fifty fitted baseball hat. Some of our faves are Rex, Parallel Dimensions, One-Armed Bandits, and Rocket Pops.

Drawing CMY Halftones

Drawing CMY Halftones

Printing and silkscreening produce full-color images by separating colors into cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, then printing them a layer in a dot pattern. This artist does the same, only using markers on transparencies. They didn’t bother with black because CMY is enough to create most colors, just without much contrast.

Win a 2022 Shelby Mustang GT500 Heritage Edition

This loaded Shelby Mustang GT500 rocks a 760 hp supercharged V8, a dual-clutch transmission, MagneRide suspension, 20″ carbon fiber wheels, the carbon fiber track pack, GT4 track wing, and more. One lucky entrant will drive this bad boy home while supporting the Shelby American Collection. Awesomer readers get 20% bonus entries.

Making a Portative Organ

Making a Portative Organ

We never heard of a portative organ before, but it’s a type of small pipe organ that uses a bellows to push wind through its pipes. Nippocast spent a year building such an instrument from scratch and boiled down his efforts into this 20-minute time-lapse video. You can hear how the finished organ sounds here.

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