This is a hack that works amazingly well – and can bring a whole new lease of life to an old favourite jacket, bag or pair of boots. Watch the movie to see just how easy it is!

This awesome project was sent to us by Kirsty in Melbourne:

“I fashioned a macro lens for my phone! I got all excited about it & now I’ve made a how-to so you can do it too.  I used some bits of a broken lens (lucky I don’t chuck stuff out) and sugru – it was a quick & easy project.”

And the results look amazing! Check out this close up photo she took with it!

Kirsty’s how-to makes this look super easy…

You can see more of Kirsty’s projects at her blog and follow her on twitter @kootoyoo

Of the 3 sugru ♥ LEGO projects this one makes me wish I was a kid again, it’s pretty exciting to imagine every toy being LEGO-compatible.

To make this project easy to do at home, we’ve made a full step by step here on gurus, and an A4 printable PDF version shown below that you can download and print – How to make all toys LEGO-compatible with sugru.

Enjoy!  And for more sugru ♥ LEGO inspiration, have a look at this little film we made

LEGO is awesome, but making a USB cable desk tidy with LEGO is even more awesome!

And it’s super super easy too.

How cool is this? You can use LEGO to mount everything from cables and earphones to your computer, to your car keys inside the door when you get home.

We know lots of you are excited about doing this, so we’ve made a full step by step here on gurus, and made this printable version shown below that you can download and print -  A4 PDF sugru and LEGO USB cable desk tidy step-by-step.

Enjoy!  And for more sugru ♥ LEGO inspiration, have a look at this little film we made

We’ve gone a bit LEGO crazy around here since we got inspired by the hair people were making for their lego men and when we discovered how well sugru bonds to the little bricks. First we got excited by making a little film, and now we want to help you get stuck in.

So we’ve made some printable step-by-steps to get you going.

This is the first of of 3 sugru ♥ LEGO printables we’ll be posting in the coming week.
Perfect little projects to do on the cold days over the holidays.

Have a look at the full step-by-step on gurus, or download this A4 printable shown above Transform any pen into an awesome LEGO character using sugru PDF, print it out and get cracking!

PS If you’re giving sugru as a gift this Christmas, and the person is a LEGO fan, you might like to include the printables with the pack too, they could be an awesome way of getting a new sugru user off to a great start!

sugru user Carson just posted this fantastic project on gurus showing how he molded a precise new strain relief for his cable using a 3D printed mold.

“A clumsy seat-mate on an airplane broke the audio plug on my earphones when he was trying to get out of his seat. I was able to remove the existing overmolded strain relief and resolder the connections, but I was left without a strain relief. I used some heat shrink tubing for a while, but was unsatisfied with the appearance.

Here’s how I did it:

1) I used 3D CAD software to model up the strain relief geometry for the audio plug.
2) Using the original CAD as reference, I then created CAD for a 2-sided mold for the part.

3) I printed the mold parts out in a 3D printer (polyjet).
4) Needed some mold-release chemicals to allow the parts to come out of the mold, like greasing a cupcake tin. Didn’t have any mold-release handy so I used olive oil.
5) Mold the Sugru around the bare audio plug by hand, while properly aligninge plug into the mold.
6) Close the mold with a C-Clamp and remove excess squeezed out of the mold.
7) 30hrs later, Done! Open the mold and enjoy the new overmolded strain relief I created!”

This is the most precise part we’ve seen someone make with sugru so far, and we’re looking forward to sharing with our friends at Makerbot and the Thingiverse community.

Super inspiring!

Lego is most people’s all time favorite toy right? When we saw Adrian in New York’s and Mike in Utah’s hair for lego men, we got inspired!

Take note: Unlike LEGO, sugru isn’t a toy. While it’s still soft and squidgy, sugru is for grownups, not kids, so keep it away from those little guys. Once sugru has had time to cure, it’s safe for everyone.

There are so many awesome things you can do by combining the two, this is just the beginning.

Here’s the first of many:
Add LEGO bricks to your monitor and your stuff to keep them neat and tidy!

Keep an eye on gurus and instructables for lots of lego related how-to’s coming v soon…

After years of service, the plastic coating on dishwasher racks are prone to wear and the metal frame rusts. It’s only a matter of time before they break and become unusable.
Replacing these parts can be expensive and often the components are no longer available, which means that you need to buy a new appliance! That’s crazy.

If this is happening to your dishwasher, it’s super easy to repair.

If you’re new to sugru, we’ve put a full step-by-step guide on Instructables to help you fix it.
Thanks to Franklin in Germany for the great photos of his dishwasher!

See what we did there?

Till now you’ve been mainly sending us your hacks and repairs by email. We thought it was about time that we got out of the way and everyone got to meet each other more directly. So we built our new community site, gurus.

I’ve been in touch with lots of you over the last 2 years, so I can tell you – you’re a pretty awesome bunch! You should meet!

gurus is now the very best place to post / upload your hacks, or to ask for tips and advice on your sugru project – it’s basically a one stop shop for everything sugru / hacking / repairing related. Browse around, there are already lots of fantastic hacks and repairs and sugru gurus on there already such as a step by step on how to repair a rip in a suitcase and a great idea for insulating long screwdrivers.

We’re pretty psyched about this so we’re launching a new monthly contest now too. As well as Hack of the Month, we’ll also now have a Guru of the Month award too. The best post, comments and interactions from a guru that month will get 5 packs of sugru and a lovely Hack Things Better t-shirt, and we’ll announce the winner in our monthly community email update.

Looking forward to meeting you there. And, more importantly, you guys meeting each other!

A few of you have sent us images of jazzed up toe caps on their Converse, so we got inspired to try it too!

We bought these shoes in a charity shop for £1.50 !!!! a quick hack later and they look super cute!

sugru properties that make this hack possible:

- bonds to the rubber used in converse
- is waterproof so will be fine in the rain and even a washing machine
- is flexible so will bend with your shoes
- can be mixed to to create custom colours

Use leftovers for other little jobs like making your zippers easier to pull

We’ve made a full step-by-step instructable for this project to show you how to get the best looking results – everyone will wonder where you got that really unusual colourway.