I have some easy DIY shop vac hacks to share with you. These simple modifications will save you money on filters, make your shop-vac quieter, and make an inexpensive cart for a dustopper and all your wet dry vac accessories.

I’ll show you a simple filter mod that will save you money and make your filters last much longer. After that I’ll show you how to make a muffler that works way better than a store bought diffuser for less money. Then I’ll show you how to turn your vacuum into a cart with no plans that you can build in an hour for an awesome upgrade.

If you don’t want to spend money or have the room for a full size cyclone to collect all of the dust from woodworking then these tips are for you. You can turn your humble shop vac into an ultra high efficiency cyclonic dust separator.

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Nowadays you can create a Christmas tree with perl. There was a wonderful module by Dave Cross in the Perl Advent Calendar 2018. But to find the perfect fitting tree, you have to hack the code. Therefore a GUI is needed. And why not to try the new module pEFL?

pEFL is an object oriented binding to the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. And even if it is a very young module, the Elementary part (the widget toolkit) is already very usable. But let's see:

But before take a deep dive into pEFL we make a global hash for the settings to SVG::ChristmasTree with nice defaults on top of our code: