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Charger DIY - How to Make Energy Efficient Cellphone Charger!

by max on June 24th, 2009
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One of the biggest losses of electricity is when you have your cellphone charger plugged into the wall but your phone is not plugged into your charger. If we could save every little bit of electricity from all the cellphone chargers in the world, this could be significant enough to power a country. Of course, there are gadgets like CheckTap, which will allow you full control over all ...

How to Lose Fat with the Manual Treadmill!

by max on June 4th, 2009
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If you enjoy walking but don’t have time to in your super-busy life, you might be interested to know that you can get a manual treadmill that uses no electricity to work out at the comfort of your home. The Stamina InMotion II Manual Treadmill is a good one btw. At $142.11 on Amazon, this surely beats any motorized environmentally-harmful treadmills. Quiet, self-powered treadmi ...

Flyin’ High Voltage Jobs!

by max on June 3rd, 2009
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Here’s a cool video on people who actually work on the high voltage lines, they get there by a helicopter so they are not grounded while millions of volts of electricity go through their body while they work. (via hackedgadgets) Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode ...

Rust DIY - How to Remove Rust by Making an Electrolytic Rust Remo ...

by max on May 27th, 2009
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As an immigrant who couldn’t speak English when I first came to America at the age of 9, I would keep myself busy by building things like Thermite, which is basically mixture of rust and aluminum. Thermite is a great detonator for various bombs like TNT and whatnot, also used as emergency flashing guns. Anyways, enough about me making thermite as a 9 year old, that was just plain ...

Electricity DIY - How to Make a 2400 Volt Can Crusher!

by max on May 4th, 2009
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Here’s a fun DIY that shows you how to make a 2400 volt can crusher! Is that too much for crushing a can? Well, I can think of many ways to apply this for can recycling, can you? The promised and much awaited 2400 volt power supply went through its first test run. It was a little disappointing it takes 4 firings to get the can into the hourglass shape. One of the capacitors might ...

Earth DIY - How to Make a Solar 55-watt Plastic Bottle Lamp!

by max on April 25th, 2009
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Here’s a great way to utilize a plastic bottle, water, and film to bring natural light to your home/office without using ANY electricity. This method basically uses film and water to disperse the sun light into indoors. It will only work indoors but still a great way to save energy, especially each of these so-called lamps produce about 55-watts of power, more than your regula ...

DIY Soda Can Robot “Robug” Kits for your Kids!

by max on April 19th, 2009
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Rather than buying your kids something from ToysRUs, you might want to consider getting him/her one of these cool soda can robug kits that can transfrom any soda can into a soda can “robug”. Explore the world of robotic science with the Soda Can Robug science kit from Green Science. Kids age 8 and up can recycle a soda can and turn it into a working robotic bug. Kids will be ...

Flashlight DIY - How to Make a Battery-Less Flashlight!

by max on March 24th, 2009
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Here’s a really cool flashlight that uses 2 capacitors to power the whole thing. Best of all, the capacitors only need to be charged 3 minutes to last more than 24 hours. For dummies Capacitors are a great way to store electricity, and of course even better when you can come up with great ideas for flashlights like this. (Also see HowStuffWorks explanation of how capacitors wo ...

Home DIY - How to Save 10-25% Energy in your Home using VegaWatt!

by max on March 18th, 2009
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Vegawatt is a new vegetable oil burning system that will recycle all your old vegetable into usable electrical power. I highly like this idea as it can possibly save up to 10-25% of your home’s energy. I just wish I had a house then I would definitely install this in my (future) garage. If you are a homeowner, make sure to bookmark this page so you can get one of these when it ...

DIY Electric Airplane!

by max on March 17th, 2009
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode There has been never a better time for people to create new eco-friendly planes that use pure electricity and here’s such DIY electric airplane that can go fly for about 1 hour on a single charge. Way too ...