Electronic sensor lab 5 hours ago
Wow, not bad - a $50 sensor lab ...Build your own projects and learn how electronic sensors respond to various physical stimuli such as light, heat, infrared light, pressure, rotation, touch and mag .......
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HOW TO - diffuse CFLs beautifully 8 hours ago
Here's a neat instructable by user sjolly which combines compact fluorescent light bulbs with a modular lampshade design . He writes: We recently installed new compact fluorescent light bulbs ( .......
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HOW TO - Mirror finishes 10 hours ago
This tutorial is meant for computer cases, but could be applied to lots of things. Learn to get a mirror finish from the mnpctech website. Via Core77 . Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read .......
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Hacking the ThingamaKIT 12 hours ago
Hack-a-Day has a how-to piece on modifying/improving/circuit bending the ThingamaKIT from Bleep Labs. How-To: Hack a ThingamaKIT More: *Retro ThingamaHat *ThingamaHat *ThingamaKIT *Th .......
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Handmade jaw harp collection 13 hours ago
Clayton Bailey expands on the classic boinging-twang of the jaw harp with myriad handmade brass variations. Take for instance, the Gunharp - What do you get when you graft a jaw harp to a deer .......
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Shake a leg ... a maraca leg. 14 hours ago
A maraca with built-in piezo mic played through delay-looper & pitch-shifter effects can make for some good sounds ... but upgrade that shaker with mannequin-limb enclosure and you're in for some st .......
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Photographically enhanced video 15 hours ago
Researchers from the University of Washington's Graphics and Imaging Laboratory are developing video enhancement software which utilizes data from related still images. Currently only for use with .......
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Activists detained after lighting up "Free Tibet" LED throwies banner near Olympics 16 hours ago
Our friend James Powderly is missing in China after displaying a LED throwie "free tibet" sign... Boingboing is running down this story... An update on the pro-Tibet tech-art protests happening i .......
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Tall Bike Extravaganza 16 hours ago
When there's one quality how-to on something you're interested in, you may or may not build it. But, when you hit around half a dozen well-documented builds, it gets a lot harder to put the project .......
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TR35 - Eric Wilhelm - Instructables! 17 hours ago
Congrats Eric !When Eric Wilhelm finished his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, he and three friends started Squid Labs, a consultancy based in Emeryville, CA, that finds fixes for clients' tech .......
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Guitar "photocopier" 17 hours ago
Justin Sabe point us to this item on Music Thing, a Pantograph -like jig for making copies of guitar bodies (and other objects). eBay of the day: Guitar photocopier More: *Happy Presiden .......
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World's fastest office chair seized 17 hours ago
Anyone know more about this? via /. German police have confiscated what may be the world's fastest office chair. Police say officers happened on the contraption - the work of two inventive 17-yea .......
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Cereal box to gift box 18 hours ago
This Instructable shows you how to invert, cut, and refold a cereal box to turn it into a rectangular gift box. Gift Box from a Cereal Box Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more ar .......
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Cow poo for your amusement (rides) 18 hours ago
The California State Fair has an amusement ride powered by cow manure. It's called the "Barnyard Animal Train", and uses biogas from Pacific Gas and Electric. The fair runs through September 1st, .......
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DIY Lamborghini 1 day ago
Unfortunately there isn't any information on the maker of this car, but the pictures are cool. If anyone knows more about this build, please post it in the comments and I will update the entry. If y .......
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DIY mechanical magnetic levitation 1 day ago
Bill Beaty documents his recipe for levitating neodymium magnets using two rotating coppers tubes. Note: The aptly named "Fantastically Dangerous Mechanical MagLev" could indeed seriously injure a p .......
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Controllerism 101 1 day ago
Brooklyn musician Moldover shows his approach to converting a standard MIDI controller into something more suited to the fast-paced live loop manipulation - aka 'controllerism '. For a more in depth .......
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A truck grows in Sacramento 1 day ago
MAKE Editor and Publisher Dale Dougherty writes from the California State Fair: Here is one of my favorite sights, a "green" truck in the Farm area. It's an old truck covered in grass with vege .......
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Mario theme on theremin 1 day ago
A skillful rendition of the classic Super Mario Bros theme as performed by Randy George on a Moog Etherwave Pro theremin with a bit of distortion added. - ooo6 on YouTube Read more | Permalink | .......
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DIY PowerMate 1 day ago
This Instructable details how to make your own jog/scroll wheel and volume control, a la the Griffith Technology PowerMate. Desktop Scroll Wheel and Volume Control! Read more | Permalink | Co .......
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