Looking for that perfect origami make?  Don’t need to look further as this New York style Origami Cube HOWTO will suffice your desires.

i was living in NY and saw this cube inside a subway booth on the 7 line (46th st)
and for days i wonder about the structure until one day i found the way to build it … yes!

so , is not my original idea, but looks cool!!!

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Here’s a cool DIY on how to make your own serial port IR receiver.

What does it do you ask?

Well, IR receiver can be used for controlling any IR devices or reading from them such as TVs, DVDs, etc…etc…

The best part about this DIY is that it can be used for making your custom DIY media center.

This circuitry allows you to control your computer with a simple remote, like the one you already use for your TV-set. It’s very useful when you want to control a DVD or an mp3 player without having to stay at the keyboard. Please note that this circuit is NOT IrDA compatible and it won’t help you to connect to your mobile phone or whatever IrDA device; it’s only good to control your pc with a standard remote control. I use it for VDR and now my pc is a full featured set top box connected to the television, capable to digitally record and replay satellite television, DVDs and every kind of digital content (mp3, divx). There are many softwares you can install to control this ciruit; for Linux you can use Lirc and for Windows you can use either Winlirc, Girder, IR Assistant or uIRC.

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Here’s a cool DIY on how to build your own bat cave with hidden rooms just like Batman.

If you’re in the market for a Batcave—or just a place to hide your stamp collection—then Steve Humble of Creative Home Engineering should be your next call. The mechanical engineer turned secret-passageway builder started his Phoenix-based company when he couldn’t find anyone to build a hidden room for his home. “I thought that there would be a lot of people who would want a secret passageway in their house,” he says. “So I took a gamble, quit my job and started making them.”

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Fully Functional NES inside toaster

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Check out this cool DIY Nintendo Toaster that encloses the whole Nintendo inside itself.  What I like most about this project is the toaster pop-out function works for the NES cartridges while the toaster LED turns on if the game is on.

I had an awful lot of people suggesting that my previous project (the Super Genintari/Leviticus) looked like a toaster. I then discovered that I had an extra NES and toaster laying around and knew what had to be done.

Ripped all the main guts out of the toaster and replaced them with an NES board, some orange LEDs, AC adapter and controller ports. Kept the front lever functional as the main power on/off switch and the crumb tray just for fun. Composite audio/video jacks are on the rear of the unit. The temperature knob does nothing.

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Yes, I did get a Food Dehydrator for Christmas present (and I did use it the other day to make some awesome apple chips) but for those of you who can’t even spend $20 on one, you can try out this DIY on how to make a food dehydrator.

Of course, it’s not a complex concept as all the food dehydrator does is flow slightly-hot air through the food for couple hours to dry your food.

There’s also DIY on how to make a solar food dehydrator, if you are an eco-geek you might want to try out that route instead.

I have always wanted to make a REAL food dehydrator, but all the plans I have found always start out “make a box…” That lets me out! I don’t have the patience to make a box, let alone the skills to make it square, then add racks (also square!!) so I came up with a super easy way to make a container that looks like the commercial dehydrators using stacking trays in a cylindrical shape. It took me less than an hour and cost about 20 dollars. I could have scavenged and cut that in half, as I am sure many of you readers can.

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With the high number of digital photo frames popping up today, I figured I would do a small review on some of the unique and innovative digital photo frames I found on the web.  Here’s a range of unique and innovative digital photo frames you might enjoy.

1) Magnetic Digital Photo Frame for your Refrigerator - This little digital photo frame will let you stick your favorite digital pictures so you can cook while reminding yourself of your loved ones.

About $40 at Gizoo (Source - Digital Photo Frame Blog)

Coby 1.5 inch Digital Photo Keychain

2) The Coby 1.5-inch digital photo frame keychain is a great idea for carrying your favorite digital pictures in your pocket along with all your house/car keys.

$14.98 at Amazon (Source - Digital Photo Frames Blog)

3) The DIY Digital Wall made from multiple LCDs is a great way to create a real-time online family photo album for ubergeeks who need to stay in constant touch with other family members.

(Source - Digital Photo Frames Blog)

4) GiiNii’s 7-inch Wedge Digital Picture Frame has an awesome wedge-like design to fit well with any of your modern home furniture.

$99.99 at zBezt.com (Source - Digital Photo Frames Blog)

5) Chumby is a versatile wireless digital photo frame with ability to surf the internet and other really neat stuff.  Chumby probably is the future of digital photo frames.

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6) Jobo’s new Mirage L has a clean, sleek glass to cover the whole digital photo frame for clearer photos and easy cleaning.  I certainly do like glass over plastic when it comes to digital photo frames, although glass is more fragile and harder to maintain, it’s worth the time and money.  Watch out for it soon as it will be in stores soon…

(Source - Digital Photo Frames Blog)

7) The LG Portable Digital Photo Frame/DVD Player is an awesome portable device that lets you watch DVDs on the go or display your family album anytime else. Too bad there’s no WiFi on this one, it would make it a “super” digital photo frame to get.

$189.99 at Circuit City (Source - Digital Photo Frames Blog)

Pandigital 7-inch Multi-Frame Digital Photo Frame is an awesome choice for anyone who needs multiple digital photo frames without having the full price for each one.

$134.94 at Amazon (Source - Digital Photo Frames Blog)

9) Daewoo’s Folding Digital Photo Frames might be big but practical for many public advertising space or you simply like to spend a lot of cash on digital photo gadgets.  This one is still a prototype so watch for commercial versions in the near future.

(Source - Digital Photo Frames Blog)

10) The 2.4-inch DIgital Photoframe with Internet Features can display your favorite photos, show you real-time weather reports, integrate with your Google Calendar, and much more for the price of only $27.50 each.

$27.50 at Chinavasion (Source - Digital Photo Frames Blog)

Steampunk Headphones!

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Are you tired of your regular ol’ headphones?  Here’s a great DIY showing you how to make Steampunk Headphones.

To construct this headset, I started with items commonly found at home improvement stores. I wanted to use mostly copper or brass parts, at least for the parts that are exposed. Unfortunately, copper and brass are heavy (compared to plastic). I use a headset frequently so I didn’t want to end up with something too heavy. The end look has an industrial flavor because of the holes drilled to lighten it. Although, I still think it fits in the Steampunk genre.

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Wow, check out this cool DIY on how to make your own Tetris brownies.  Now, where did I put that concoction for those pot brownies???

Who doesn’t love Tetris? Fit the tetrads (or tetrominoes or blocks) together the best you can without any spaces. Keep the game going by forming unbroken lines that disappear to steer clear of building the blocks all the way up to the top of the screen (this action = game over). This is one of the only video games I have ever really enjoyed (Super Mario and Guitar Hero excluded). I remember when my classmates and I figured out how to load Tetris onto our TI-83 calculators in high school. This discovery made math class much more fun.

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Do you need a new bed?  Do you want a new $5000 platform bed for a lot less?

Here’s a cool DIY on how to make your own platform bed from scratch.

I sincerely do love this DIY since I own a platform bed myself.

The last step to completing my bed was upholstering the entire particle board box. I purchased enough sheets of one-centimeter-thick foam from a local foam store. The foam store employees agreed that foam thicker than 1 cm is difficult to upholster using just a simple staple gun. Using a regular staple gun from the hardware store, I covered the four box sides of the bed. I tried to not staple anywhere that would be visible or touchable on the top or side of the bed. Instead, I stapled on the inside edge of the boxes where the mattress would hide the staples and under the lip of each empty-bottomed box side. The bed in it’s partly upholstered state is shown here below.

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