August 7, 2008
DIY - How to Make a Hydroponics Unit for Growing Weed!
Don’t mind the post title as this DIY shows you how to make hydroponics unit for growing anything. Aside from people with medical marijuana licenses who live in San Francisco and can legally grow several pot plants, the hydroponic system can be used for growing your own organic vegetables and what not. My wife teaches 8th grade science. Thi ... More
July 30, 2008
DIY - How to Make a Chapstick LED Flashlight!
Here’s a fun DIY on how to make a chapstick LED flashlight. It’s pretty simple to do but a great idea. Maybe Chapstick companies will pick up on this and make them as promotion materials. This is an instructable on how to make a flashlight out of a ChapStick tube. After reading up on multiple LED instructables I thought it would be ... More
July 14, 2008
DIY - How to Make a Mobile Tripod!
Do you think you will be directing any home-brewed movies anytime soon? Well, if you are, here’s how to make a mobile tripod for those action shots. How to make a stable, mobile, and cool looking base for your tripod. via instructables action shots, Cameras, Consumer, Cool, Design, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment ... More
July 7, 2008
DIY - How to Make Fakeout Stereo to Deter Thieves!
Here’s a cool instructables on how to make a fakeout stereo face to deter thieves from stealing your precious stereo face. This faceplate is made using the original Delco radio/cassette tape player that came with the truck, some Velcro, and a lot of epoxy glue. I left half of a cassette sticking out of the tape player for added effect. Addit ... More
June 18, 2008
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 Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Househol ... More
June 10, 2008
DIY - How to Make Ping Pong Lights!
Here’s a great DIY on how to make Ping Pong Lights! Actually, the “idea” or the “concept” is very creative. At some point last semester I realized that ping pong balls make great diffusers and look really cool when they are glowing. Next we concluded that a hundred glowing ping pong balls would look even cooler. It ... More
June 8, 2008
How to Make Your Own Iron Man Arc Reactor!
Here’s a cool DIY on how to make your own Iron Man Arc reactor! This instructable is one of two parts detailing how to build an arc reactor and an iron man mask. Both work together but are written as seperate instructables for clarity. This part is for the Arc Reactor the Iron Man Mask can be found here: http://www.instructables.com/id/How- ... More
May 21, 2008
DIY - How to Make a 56 inch Multitouch Television!
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 Wow wee, this is an awesome DIY 56 inch multi-touch television! I have built a nice multitouch display during my spare time as a hobby. In this article, I will share plans a ... More
May 20, 2008
DIY - How to Make a USB Wooden Drive out of a Cruzer USB!
I admit to having a cruzer 4GB USB drive in which I store all my website data including the tar files and the sql files. Here’s a great DIY on how to turn your cruzer USB(or any other USB) into a super-protective wooden USB that you can drop from 13th floor and still recover your data. Everybody has a jump drive nowadays, and there are a mul ... More
May 2, 2008
DIY HACK - How to make your own Video Cassette USB Hub!
Ever wonder, can I make my own cool looking USB hub that doesn’t look like a USB hub? Well, here’s some good news for you, there’s full instructions over at instructables on how to make your own video cassette USB hub. Thank Alan over at HackedGadgets for finding it. (He always finds the coolest gadget hacks.) Nowadays, usb hu ... More
January 27, 2008
DIY HACK - HOWTO Build your own Roll Up Keyboard!
Here’s a great instructables on how to build your own Roll Up Keyboard! Have you ever wanted one of those pricy roll up keyboard but didn’t want to spend the money? Here is a quick and dirty way to make your own. [via] Make Computer, Computer, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Hac ... More
October 30, 2007
DIY - Halo 3 Master Chief costume out of cardboard, fiberglass and an old bicycle helmet
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a cool Halo 3 Master Chief costume you can make. Check out the video, very hilarious. :p via MakeZine Computer, Computer, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Design, Design, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Enter ... More
July 1, 2007
DIY HACK - How to make an LED Hoola Hoop!
Wow, this is an awesome instructables on how to make an LED Hoola Hoop! Some friends wanted a lighted hula hoop for burningman, and when they turned out to be about $200 each, I decided to make one. All the parts cost about $15 . . . total time to make the hoop was about 3 hours, but that included time for figuring things out. You could probably m ... More
April 30, 2007
DIY - How to make an NES Wallet
Check out this cool NES wallet instructables! Awesome! via craftzine Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, craftzine, diy-nes, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Games, Games, Graphics, Graphics, howto-nes, instructables, NES, wallet ... More
April 19, 2007
Human Powered Vehicle
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Wow, check out this cool human powered vehicle! via Auto, Auto, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Google, human-powered-vehicle, instructables, make, makezine, Projects, Projects, Travel, Travel, Video, Video, videoplay, Zed ... More
March 15, 2007
DIY - Blue Heart LED Light
Here’s a cool blue heart LED light that you can use as an example to make some water filled lights. It’d be really cool if it was RGB. This is small gift i maked for my girlfriend for Valentine’s day. Blue is her favorite color. So i decided make something that is blue. First idea was to make copper sulphate crystals (I will pl ... More
March 2, 2007
DIY - How to make a CD Cover using a blank paper
Here’s an extremely simple but very useful DIY on how to make a CD cover using a blank paper! via instructables build, cd-cover-diy, cd-cover-howto, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, HOWTO, instructables, make, Zedomax ... More
February 21, 2007
DIY - Floppy Disk Bag
Make a floppy disk bag with your old floppy disk drives. It probably would be the geekiest bag ever! This is a bag I made from floppy disks. I found scads of floppy disks in a dumpster and wanted to make plate mail armor out of it (that is my next floppy project) I found out that a bag would be a great proof of concept project. Here goes.. via ... More
January 4, 2007
DIY - Make your own self-powered mini-flashlight
Here’s a cool self-recharging mini-flashlight you can make yourself if you are still on vacation. Come to think of it, we are going to have to build self-powered POVs soon… Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, flashlight, Hack, Ha ... More
December 19, 2006
DIY IdeA - Clear USB and molding CLEAR
Check out clear USB! Well, the point is that we can probably apply this type of resin to make your next application clear! via instructables clear-usb, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Gadgets, Gadgets, Hack, Hack, instructables, molding, resin, Storage, Storage, USB, Zedomax ... More
December 16, 2006
DIY - Make your own bed using UPS or FedEX Boxes
I have been thinking about making a bed at my workplace recently. I think this would be a good solution! A new bed for $10 in 5 minutes. Having blown $300 on a mattress, I wasn’t about to blow another $300 on a bed frame or box springs. I had all these archive boxes that I used for moving, so here’s a cheap-ass substitute. Its as str ... More
December 15, 2006
Wii HACK - Nintendo Wii combo Component/Composite Cable
Nice Nintendo Wii hack for people who need this hack…bookmark it! The Nintendo Wii ships with a composite video cable that is capable of 480i resolution. Currently first party component cables, which allow for 480p resolution, are available through retailers and directly from Nintendo. However, when attaching the component cables, one loses ... More