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more about #diy more comments → Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Can I go on eBay and buy back the first 2 minutes and 22 seconds I lost watching that video? #cancrusher more » Dacker: That cap is puny when compared to the ones I saw in the hallway outside the office of Harold Edgerton at MIT in 1980. They were about 3' cubes! [en.... more » psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland: Everyone who was anticipating that huge capacitor to blow up, say "I". Aye. Next time, put a lab rat wraped in alluminum foil. I mean that is the te... more » GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat: Time warp did this last week with magnets and had something similar. #cancrusher more » Duckspwn:Loves Approving Reds: So incredibly pointless. #cancrusher more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: I thought about making a BT communicator but I didn't want to have something else to carry around in my pocket. Besides, I'd rather have one of these... more » blash: Or, you could just run the wires across the floor. It ain't pretty but when you don't host many non-nerd types, no one really cares. Also, 100 foot C... more » Hello Mister Walrus: Hah, it's easy for me because my house is a shopping cart. #diyethernetwiring more » Xagest: Ha, I just bought a house with the wiring already done! #diyethernetwiring more » Benguin: I think I'm in love. #pyrowristmountedflamethrower more » -
#diy
5,000 Volts Is More Than Enough Power To Crush a Soda Can
Bob Davis scored a complete power supply including a 5 KV transformer, 100 uf Capacitor and a contactor on eBay for $100 and did what any sane person would do—he built a can crusher. More » -
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DIY Star Trek Bluetooth Communicator Almost Makes Regular Bluetooth Headsets Look Stylish
This DIY Star Trek Bluetooth Communicator instantly reminded me of a comment a dear reader left when I shared a Star Trek fantasy. He was right: Bluetooth is the ruin of Star Trek. But this is a fun quick-n-dirty project. More » -
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Wire Your House With Ethernet Cable For Better Home Networking
I finally started watching Californication recently, but my big annoyance since then is that my—ahem—mostly-legally downloaded episodes take ages to transfer wirelessly from laptop to media center PC. Thankfully Lifehacker's got a DIY wiring solution for my troubles. More » -
#fixit
Eliminate Scratches On Your iPhone's Bezel With A Sponge
I abused my iPhone and it's got the marks to tell the stories. The most annoying though are the scratches on the pretty silver bezel. Thankfully, as Lifehacker shows us, those can easily be eliminated using a kitchen sponge. More » -
#diy
DIY Wrist-Mounted Flamethrower Lets You Pretend To Be An X-Man
Pyro was never my favorite of the X-Men, but that doesn't mean I'm not excited about this DIY project allowing me to mimic his powers. It's called Prometheus, and it's by far one of the best wrist-mounted flamethrowers I've seen. More » -
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Make Your Own Secret Knock Detecting Door Lock
Hideouts can't be protected with a simple lock and key, those jobs require passwords or secret knocks. For the latter, you can go the extra mile and build a knock detector using a few basic pieces of equipment. More » -
#imagecache
Disturbingly Cool "Big Head" Papercraft Halloween Costume
Inspired by the big head mode in retro video games, Eric Testroete created this trippy papercraft self portrait for Halloween last weekend. The geometric look uses 370 individual paper triangles, and here's how he did it: More » -
#diy
This DIY Automated Sentry Gun Looks Terrifyingly Easy To Build
I know the week's barely started, but I've already got the freakishly scary weekend project I want to take on. Some folks have put together instructions to build a completely automatic, autonomous sentry gun. More » -
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304 Matchboxes Filled With Beans Are The Perfect Tic-Tac-Toe Opponent
It's tough to find a partner who's always ready and willing to play, so James Bridle attempted to build one. 304 matchboxes and several bags of beans later he had MENACE, a Tic-Tac-Toe playing "machine" designed to learn and improve. More » -
#usb
Homemade USB Charger Runs Off a 9V
In case you're interested in a cheap, reusable 9V to USB adapter/charger, AnythingButiPod has a neat step-by-step tutorial up that requires little more than soldering. Or you can always just buy a Duracell Instant Charger for not much more. [AnythingButiPod] -
#robots
Cold, Lifeless Robot Shreds Blondie In iPhone Rock Band
This little homemade robot takes all of those impressive no-look Dragonforce-on-expert Rock Band/Guitar Hero YouTube videos and destroys them with a cold, clockwork efficiency. Updated. More » -
#gaming
Atari's Lunar Lander, Made Real
A crazy British engineer named Iain Sharp decided to honor the 40th anniversary of the moon landing by building a real-life version of the classic Atari game Lunar Lander. And you know what? It's pretty great. More » -
#diy
A Spider-Bot Pumpkin Is the Scariest Way To Dispense Candy On Halloween
If I wasn't so worried about traumatizing the kids in my neighborhood, dispensing trick or treat candy in this creepy spider bot pumpkin would be awesome. More » -
#robots
Mr. Wake Robot Alarm Clock Is An Untouchable Morning Menace
What if Clocky the alarm clock didn't just run away from you in the morning? What if he could sense your presence and evade capture with an IR sensor? That's the annoying idea behind Mr. Wake. More » -
#howto
Build Your Own Life HUD With a Smartphone and Some Cardboard
A cardboard box, sliced to pieces, taped together, fastened to a pair of work goggles, and capped off with an HTC Magic: this is what DIY augmented reality looks like, right now. More » -
#diy
DIY Larger-Than-Life, Soccer Ball-Controlled Guitar Hero Game
Definitely one for the things-I-wish-I-were-talented-enough-to-do category. These five guys are playing a way-bigger-than-life-size game of Guitar Hero by shooting soccer balls at sensors made from torn apart Guitar Hero controllers. Oh, and they're scoring some pretty decent accuracy, too. More » -
#projects
Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
Bored? Why not direct your restless energy into building a Atlatl, an ancient spear-throwing device that'll let you toss a spear far farther than you could before. More » -
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Build The Spirit Radio That Creeped Out Tesla Himself
Tesla's Spirit Radio uses a simple crystal radio circuit connected to a computer sound-in jack to generate spooky sounds from all kinds of electromagnetic sources. As you will see, it creeped the hell out of Tesla himself. More » -
#halloween
There’s Still Time For DIY Halloween Decor
Make brings up this handy resource to add a little fright to your front yard this Halloween. The Haunt Project is a collection of Halloween-related DIY projects, ranging from harmless decorations to stuff that's just dangerous. More » -
#household
DIY Laser Hair Removal And DIY Botox Markets Expanding
I love DIY projects, lasers, and chemistry sets as much as the next gal, but the whole do-it-yourself laser hair removal and Botox market boom is terrifying. Untrained individuals shouldn't be pointing needles and lasers at themselves. More » -
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This Remote Control Is Impossible to Lose
Always misplacing the remote control? You probably don't need to go this far to ensure it doesn't get lost again, but hey, nice work anyways. [Thereifixedit via Make] -
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Man Designs and Builds Machine To Fight His Own Cancer
For the last sixteen minutes and twenty-seven seconds I've been watching this video in absolute awe. It's the story of John Kanzius who designed, built, and tested a machine (on himself), all in hopes of curing his leukemia. More » -
#lightbox
Make a DIY Photography Light Box with K'Nex
Lightboxes aren't just for the professionals any longer. Using them to illuminate your Craigslist and eBay listings can help make a sale, and amateur photogs can get professional-looking shots with one. Create your own using K'nex and a little know how. [Lifehacker] -
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Stolen Traffic Cones Come Together To Form Hedgehog-Like Concert Pavilion
You've got a tiny budget and need to have a pavilion for a concert, ASAP. What'll you do? If you're EFGH, an NYC-based architecture firm, you run out, take a bunch of traffic cones, and take the DIY route. More » -
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LED Pocket Watch Will Have You Considering Monocles and Handlebar Mustaches
Using his one of his Grandfather's broken old pocket watches as a starting point, one modder [Paul Pounds] skilled in the ways of microelectronics replaced the face with a system of 133 hand soldered LEDs. More » -
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I Feel Like this Mac Pro Today
I need a break, because today I look like this Mac Pro. No yellow drooling, though. Yet. [Hilton Warburton via Monster Munch] -
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How to Fit a 32GB Flash Drive Into an Old Zune
They should make these retro-fitting guides for every single player and gadget out there: How to replace old, aging hard drives with solid state storage. This one is for the old Zune 80. [Andrew N Price via Anything But iPod] -
#xbox
The Girlfriend Controller (That You Secretly Want)
This is how you show you care: By meticulously hand-painting a controller for your girlfriend. Or, that's how you get her to play videogames. Or you want a pink controller, and you say it's for your girlfriend. [Flickr via Technablog] -
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Scare the Crap Out of Trick-or-Treaters With a Rovin' Pumpkin
Costumes and paper cut-out witches are all well and good, but if you want to legitimately scare trick-or-treaters, why not surprise them with a pumpkin that moves around under its own volition? More » -
#windowshomeserver
How to Build Your Very Own Badass Windows Home Server
Jason lurves Windows Home Server—it does automated backups over your network, streams movies, music and photos and is a general-purpose fileshare. If you don't wanna hand HP $400, Maximum PC's got a build-to-stream guide to rolling your own. More » -
#diy
DIY: When LED Throwies Meet Mouse Taxidermy
Say your pet rat dies. Instead of trashing it, you could shove LED throwie lights into its eye-sockets in a decorative taxidermy experiment that's as creative as it is graphically morbid. It might be what little Snowy would have wanted. More » -
#lego
Lego R2-D2 Minifig Mod Adds Sound and Light
Sorry Jason. You trumped my LED Lego stormtrooper minifig with your cylon and Iron Man, but this modded R2-D2 Lego minifig kills them all with lighting and actual Star Wars astromech sounds. [Brickmodder via FBTB via Brothers Brick] -
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How to Make Your Own Shroud of Turin
Further proving that the Shroud of Turin—a linen cloth that believers say covered Jesus after the crucifixion—is a big fake, scientists have made a reproduction using inexpensive materials and easy techniques from the Middle Ages. This is how: More » -
#architecture
From Abandoned Nuclear Missile Silo to Kickass Home
Apartment hunting sucks, so I can't blame Bruce Townsley for just plain giving up and moving into an abandoned nuclear missile silo. Actually, after seeing more pictures of the place, I kinda wanna follow his example. More » -
#gaming
Blue Blood 360 Controller Modkit Looks Surprisingly Tasteful
For $30, console mod company XCM will sell you this Blue Blood Xbox 360 controller kit. It includes a new blue shell and D-pad along with a series of glowing LED buttons. Can techno-kitsch be beautiful? Apparently. [TotalConsole via technabob] -
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Wooden Automata iPhone Dock Cranks From Vertical to Horizontal
This Automata iPhone Dock by Murtaza Lakdawala is clever and useful, a combination rarely found in DIY projects. All you have to do is crank and the dock turns from vertical to horizontal. More » -
#diy
A Dreamcast Controller Is a Weird Place To Put an iPhone Dock
We're not exactly sure what Jay Hauf was thinking when he modded a Dreamcast controller into an iPhone dock, but at least that iPhone cable looks a lot like the original Dreamcast cable. [iPhone Savior] -
#diy
Create Your Own Cylon Pumpkin
Those evil, evil people at Evil Mad Scientist are already setting up for Halloween with their new version of their Cylon jack-o'-lantern. Now you can buy your own Larson Scanner Kit to do exactly the same. More » -
#lego
Knitted Lego Minifig Will Replace My Teddy Bear
Oh Lego Minifig, you were perfect in your plastic symmetry and Mona Lisa smile before. But now that you've been knitted, I just want to hug you. Unfortunately, you can't buy this right away. You'll have to do it yourself: More » -
#peripherals
iPhone Dock Made From Bread Kills That Meme
OK, I think the whole DIY iPhone dock war has officially come to an end with this 100% whole wheat bread dock. The enthusiasm is sweet, but please don't sacrifice any more perfectly good food to fandom. [Flickr via iPhoneSavior]
