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Mario DIY - How to Make 1-Up Mario Candles!

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Design, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Games, HOWTO, NES by max on the June 23rd, 2008 at 2:30 pm

1-Up Mario Candle Anyone?

Here’s a cool DIY on how to make your own 1-Up Mario Candle.

Go retro with this candle that looks like a 1up from Super Mario Bros.!

I recommend you to read through the entire Instructable before you start.

This is entered in the Let it Glow contest. Please vote it you like it! Thanks, enjoy!

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Holy Crap, It’s a DIY Drawing Bug!

Posted in Art, Consumer, Cool, Design, DoItYourself!, Gadgets by max on the June 23rd, 2008 at 9:13 am

Holy Crap, It\'s a DIY Drawing Bug!

Holy crap!  It’s a drawing bug!  For instructions on how to make your own, head over here.

..using a small motor you can create a kinetic bug that draws or create more than one to have a race with your friends

via make

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How to Make an Umbrella Parabolic Microphone!

Posted in Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, HOWTO, Projects, Pyro by max on the June 21st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
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DIY - How to Make a PVC Pipe Flute!

Posted in Audio, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Gadgets, HOWTO, Music, Projects by max on the June 20th, 2008 at 3:36 am

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Can’t afford a real flute?  Here’s a cool DIY on how to make your own PVC pipe flute!

Here’s a HowTo on building a pvc recorder out of cheap parts (pvc pipe and dowel rod) and common tools.

via youtube

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DIY High Power LED Blinking Circuit!

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Design, DoItYourself!, Gadgets, LED, Projects by max on the June 19th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

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Here’s a fun little DIY with high powered LEDs.

Now by the time that you start talking about blinking the high power LEDs– you shouldn’t be surprised if people start whipping out the heavy artillery: 555 timer chips, transistors, boost converters, microcontrollers, solid state relays, and/or dedicated LED driver chips. While each of those does have its place, sometimes it’s nice to have a simpler and much less expensive alternative.

via make

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Eec PC DIY HACK - How to add Backlight to the Keyboard!

Posted in Computer, Computer Keyboard, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Gadgets, HOWTO, Hack, LED, Laptop by max on the June 18th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

Eec PC HACK - How to add Backlight to the Keyboard!

Need that Eec PC to be ultra-portable and the keyboard to light up when using at night?  Check out this DIY on how to add backlight to the Eec PC’s keyboard.

As we showed you in our May 2008 issue, Asus’s Eee PC has quickly become a favorite of hardware hackers around the web. Here, we offer the first installment of our Eee PC School series. Check back in the coming weeks for more tiny ultraportable tweaking.—Eds.

What good is that portable PC if you can’t type anywhere and anytime? With its ultra-compact keyboard, even touch typing pros will be hard-pressed to avoid frequent mistakes on when the lights go out. To say it’s a frustrating exercise in futility to locate the miniature F3 key in the dark is an understatement. Oops, you just lost WiFi contact by accidentally hitting F2.

Clearly, a keyboard backlight like those found in higher-end laptops is the answer to your nocturnal Eee PC typing woes. And for less than $15, such a backlight can be installed with minimal fuss.

via make

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DIY Headphones

Posted in Audio, Consumer, Cool, Design, DoItYourself!, Gadgets, Music by max on the June 18th, 2008 at 10:20 am

DIY Headphones

Here’s a cool DIY headphone.  I can feel ya because I listen to music all day long too.  As soon as I am off the computer, I immediate switch onto my MP3 or iPod.

Since I listen to music/podcasts/audiobooks throughout the day while I’m working, I adapted a pair of normal safety earphones for speakers, and added a vintage look. I cut the outside portion of the cups off, replaced with a curved flat sheet of plastic -over which I mounted the grill (from an old record player) and the cork which I sanded to shape. Then I painted the rest of the shell green, and installed some $50 drivers. I still use them daily.

via make

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DIY Lego-Built Wall-E!

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Design, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Toys, kids by max on the June 18th, 2008 at 5:18 am

DIY Lego-Built Wall-E!

Cute lego Wall-E huh?

Joe Meno, editor of BrickJournal magazine, built the first well-done model of Pixar’s adorable little robot Wall-E. The creation features moving parts including the neck and arms and rolling treads and took three months to plan.

via gizmodo - brothers-brick

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DIY - How to Make Red Laser Wax Bulb!

Posted in Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, HOWTO, Household, lights by max on the June 18th, 2008 at 4:35 am

DIY - How to Make Red Laser Wax Bulb!

Here’s a fun DIY on how to make your own glowing red laser wax bulb. A lot of work for little results but still, now you know how to do it.

this will show you how to make an awesome night light using a laser, wax, and a light bulb.

via instructables

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DIY - How to Make Heat Blocking Curtains!

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Design, DoItYourself!, Gadgets, HOWTO by max on the June 18th, 2008 at 1:21 am

DIY - How to Make Heat Blocking Curtains!

This one’s pretty much common sense but still a really good idea on how to make heat blocking curtains using insulated materials.

To save electricity with our super expensive A/C, I constructed reflective curtains to block sunlight from warming our house. Think auto windshield. This is super simple and kind of obvious, but it works well.

via instructables

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