With the gas price going upper and upper, regular people decide to stop waiting for companies finding a solution to this, and remodel their vehicles and other gas-fueled equipments. Hacknmod released three comprehensive tutorials on how to save the $4 dollars per gallon when you mow your lawn. (more…)
Do you want to impress your friends with your USB drive ? There are a lot of options out there, but nothing compares with a DIY, because of it’s uniqueness. So what you have to do is get a USB cable, cut it off, break the connector and insert the USB drive into it. Now your USB Drive will look like a cut USB cable and you can say that someone cut it while was connected to your PC.
Of course it’s not that simple, but you’ll get the idea in this tutorial.
I am guessing that many of you are fond of LEDs because they just happen to have a special brightness of their colors. If you were thinking to buy some LEDs, I think that you will be happy to hear that you can do it yourself. You will need an old VCR but if you already thrown those things away, a CD-ROM will be just fine. Charles Palen used his VCR, pinwheels, wiring and some power tools, but it will be better if you watch him in action in the video below.
Now you can create your own electrical-charge shapes using a giant particle accelerator or a shag carpet ( we recommend the particle accelerator). One good accelerator is the Dynamitron and it can be found at the Kent State Neo Beam in Newton Falls, Ohio.
The Dynamitron is a 5 million particle accelerator, it’s bigger than a tube TV, but both use high voltage to send electrons to a target. The lightning bolts captured in a block made of clear acrylic glass are called Lichtenberg figures, they are called like this after the German scientist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg which discovered them in 1777.
The frozen lightning could be a cool decoration because it’s an amazing view and it you can be sure of the fact that it will impress all your guests.
Everybody likes having an email notifier so they won’t have to check their mail all the time, so they can buy one. For your Gmail you could buy a plastic cube that lights up when you’ve got a message in your inbox, or if you have a little imagination you could create one for yourself. You could start building your notifier by using only a LED to something more complicated like a robot for example.
