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Instructables Book Contest

Instructables Book Contest

One of my FAVORITE websites, Instructables.com, is running an Instructables book contest and they want you to be in it!
O’Reilly’s Maker Media team (the folks behind MAKE Magazine) is going to publish The Best of Instructables Volume I this fall and over 100 Instructables will be in it.
Since there are now over 14,000 Instructables (yow!) [...]

DIY: Cool Sawed Off USB Drive

DIY: Cool Sawed Off USB Drive

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 [...]

DIY: Make LEDs From A VCR

DIY: Make LEDs From A VCR

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 [...]


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Create Your Own Lichtenberg Figure

Create Your Own Lichtenberg Figure

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 [...]


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Create Your Unique Physical Gmail Notifier

Create Your Unique Physical Gmail Notifier

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. [...]


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DIY SSD Tested

DIY SSD Tested

Solid State Disks or SSDs are being tested by “developers” in order to make them cheaper and to increase the capacity. The latest idea is to use a flash to SATA adapter. The usually price for this storage would be between $600 and $1000, but they managed to reduce the cost to an unbelievable $100. [...]