As you know, WonderHowTo.com is a great DIY video site and here’s Top 10 Cool Electronic HOWTO Videos from the How To, Hack, DIY, Mods Video Site:

1) How to Make a Metal Detector from Radio and Calculator -KipKay the famous Maker shows us how to make a metal detector from your old radio and calculator.  This one is really similar to the aircraft band receiver KipKay makes by taking the radio dial to its limit.

2) Here’s what happens when you type “Find Chuck Norris” on Google. Someone decided to make a website that results 1st on Google search for “Find Chuck Norris”, funny.

3) How to Make your own Home Windows Media Center PC - Here’s a great way to make your own Windows Media Center PC for watching and recording some programs on your computer.

4) How to find the hidden Microphone boost on Realtek HD Sound Cards - Here’s how you can get 20dB Micphone boost on HD sound cards.

5) Here’s how to perform CPR on an infant baby. - This might be one of the most useful things parents need to know in order to save their baby in emergencies.

6) Photoshop Hack - Check out how to increase boob size using Photoshop.  This one doesn’t require any surgery and it might help you with your future Photoshop skills.

7) Solitaire Hack - Learn how to win the Solitaire game on Windows XP or Vista. - I don’t play solitaire unless I am re-installing Windows and I need to kill time but still a cool thing to know how to do.

Here’s some tips on how to calculate faster using math shortcuts.

9) Learn how to remove a wheel from a Kawasaki motorcycle. - This could be applied to probably any Japanese sport bike.

10) Learn how to jailbreak your iPhone 3G! - Yes, every iPhone can be jailbroken for more fun.

Well, that’s all folks for now, check out the HOWTO video site for more!

If you are like most folks who don’t know about DD-WRT and your Linksys router is dying on you, it’s time to switch your OS to DD-WRT.

DD-WRT also works on over 80 other routers, so be sure to check the supported devices list here.

DD-WRT is basically an aftermarket linux firmware for your Linksys router. It’s like putting an aftermarket turbo system on your hot import car, except this one is open-source and free to download.

There are many instructions floating on the internet but the most important thing is to identify what type of Linksys router you have.

You can refer to the instructions on the DD-WRT website wiki here. It might look a little hairy but usually it takes 3 simple steps of uploading a new firmware via the web GUI admin interface, TFTPing another file, then simple rebooting and wala you have a .

Check the back of your Linksys router to see what model it is. I have several different Linksys routers ranging from Linksys WRT-G V8, WRT-GS V5, and WRT-GS V7.

I’ve successfully installed the DD-WRT on my WRT-GS V5 and my WRT-G V8, but have bricked my WRT-GS V7.

If you have WRT-G V8 or WRT-GS V7, you can try this guide here. I’ve successfully installed the WRT-G V8 but bricked my WRT-GS V7, so be careful.

If you have one of the newer models or thinking about buying one, I highly suggest trying to get an old one off eBay or get the WRT-G models. Although WRT-GS V8 is supported, sometimes, it can brick your router just like it happened to me.

Bricked your router while trying to upgrade to DD-WRT?

Well, normally this doesn’t happen, but here’s resources just in case you do brick your router.

The only choice I have is to make a hairydairymaid JTAG cable which allows you to directly program and erase the flash and the Broadcom chip inside the router.

If you ever brick your router, you can always refer to the WRT54G revival guide before trying the hairy dairy method.

Click below for on the rest of the guide to tweak the settings and make the router go 10 times faster!

Continue reading ‘DIY Linksys HACK - HOWTO tweak your router to go 10 times faster!’

Craigslist is very good for searching stuff except most of the time it’s in text but here’s a site that lets you browse craiglist with images only.

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Check out web comics…sometimes we feel like we need to keep going but sometimes we need to go outside…

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For this weekend, we will show you how to make an ethernet controlled color organ that can be applied for some kind of stage lighting.

We will be using the party light we made and simply plugin the MaxPORT module to the serial port of the CuSB22R.

Click below for the full HOWTO:

Continue reading ‘Zedomax DIY 127 - Make an Ethernet controlled Color Organ!’

Here’s some cool list of hacking and network security websites:

• How to become a hacker by Eric Steven Raymond
• YoLinux: Internet Server Security and Configuration Tutorial
• Information Security Awareness and howtos
• Linux netfilter hacking HOWTO
• Hacking Tools
• Latest hacks on Swik.net

Here’s a cool blending night DIY, very simple and easy to do with your Picaxe. Picaxe is a very
cheap microcontroller you can do a lot of cool stuff like this…

had a few multicolor LEDs laying around and wanted to whip up a color-blending nightlight. I built 2 devices, each in its own 20 pin DIP socket without soldering. A 3-pin header is included so I can reprogram the light on-the-fly if desired. On my first build, I used wire-wrap. The next one used multiple wires pushed into the socket. A bit more difficult, but no wire-wrapping or soldering necessary.

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Here’s a little simple hack for making a mesh wire wireless LAN extender.
Check out the video they’ve got here.  It also includes elevator hack, which we thought was
kinda cool.

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This is cool since i didn’t expect to find 6 1.5V AAA batteries in one 9V battery.