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!) on the site they are asking for your help to choose some of the Instructables that will be included in the book. To do this they are opening up The Instructables Book Contest to every …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.
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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. The results say that the DIY SSD are faster than the traditional drive available for MacBook Air, even faster than the Vaio Tz 64GB.
The tests were taken with the help of a 7200 rpm 2.5-inch drive and …