Your living room TV may have a great picture, but those little TVs are often forgotten—until you are beating the side for better reception.

Despite hooking up a DTV box (you’ve done that, right?), you might not have the best possible picture. John Park from “Make” magazine has put together a neat little do-it-yourself project to improve your picture. With a bunch of coat hangers, he makes like MacGyver; the end result is tower of TV power.

If you need things laid out a bit better, there’s also a PDF with step-by-step instructions.

A little over half-way into the video, he switches gears to make a steadicam. It’s definitely not a necessity. However, if you are finding your family videos stirring up some motion sickness, it’s an easy solution for that shaki-cam. That one has a PDF as well.

Check out the video below.

Maker Workshop - DTV Antenna & Steadicam on MAKE: television from make magazine on Vimeo.

Rachel Cericola - Contributing Writer

Over the past 15 years, Rachel Cericola has covered entertainment, web and technology trends. Check her out at www.rachelcericola.com.