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Boost Your Car Remote Range!

Posted on December 28, 2006 by max

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Nicely done, this will be very useful.

Easy hack to increase the range of your car remote control! Mine increased 50′ with this simple trick! Try it!

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DIY HACK – “Propeller Clock” Mechanically Scanned LED Clock

Posted on December 28, 2006 by max
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Cool propeller clock you can make!

How this clock works: A motor spins the “propeller”, and a small microprocessor keeps track of time and changes the pattern on seven LEDs with exact timing to simulate a 7 by 30 array of LEDs. It is an illusion, but it works nicely.

If you want to build this clock, you will need a few things, including: Skill with motors and mechanical things. Prior electronic experience. A dead VCR or floppy drive or other source of a suitable

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DIY HACK – Etch CNC

Posted on December 27, 2006 by max
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Check out this cool etch CNC.  Actually we were thinking of making this too, but since it’s already made, we can learn from it and make it quicker.  Awesome! 🙂

I am using a retrofit machine that fit within my budget. It’s a 2-axis machine with approximately 170x130mm travel.

The circuit board is my own design, using a ULN2803 per motor to supply approx. 0.3 amps per winding. The power supply is a standard AT hard-drive power connecto

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Wii HACK – Woomba, Wii controller + Roomba!

Posted on December 27, 2006 by max
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More nice Wii hacks! wiipee!

Also check out all the other Wii hacks on zedomax if you haven’t yet.

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Google HACK – Use Google as proxy, access forbidden sites from work

Posted on December 27, 2006 by max
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Now you can use Google’s translator to access sites blocked over firewall at work or school using the following simple methods:

Its easy, simply paste the following URL in to your browser’s address bar and replace www.site.com with the URL that you received from your friend.

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.site.com

So for example if the URL for the video is;

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4xOt9m76sNA

simply change the URL above to;

http://www.google

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DIY HACK – Replace your Laptop LCD screen

Posted on December 27, 2006 by max
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We’ve had a big share of broken laptops due to Beer and Vodka spills not too long ago. Here’s some tips about replacing your LCD on your broken LCD.

It helps to know your computer. If you don’t, do your research first. Some laptops have the LCD glued (epoxied) into the frame. In these cases it’s usually much easier to replace the whole cover. Most don’t have this problem though.

I’m going to show how easy it is with an Apple iBook G4. I’

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AjaxWp – An AJAX enhancement for WordPress blogs

Posted on December 27, 2006 by max

Here’s a cool AJAX plugin for WordPress. We are going to try to plug it into Zedomax today, maybe it will speed up things a little.

If you are curious what AJAX is, it’s:

shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a

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Wii HACK – Wii Pong

Posted on December 26, 2006 by max
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Check out the Wii Pong using Glovepie!

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DIY HACK – Wave Bubble portable RF Jammer

Posted on December 26, 2006 by max
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Ladyada has a cool RF Jammer that you can build yourself…WOW!

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DIY Tool – Epson unveils smallest GPS chip ever

Posted on December 26, 2006 by max
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Here’s the smallest GPS chip ever! Great news for us hackers and DIYers!

PhysOrg.com says “thanks to clever use of space-saving technology the S4E19863 series is the world’s smallest GPS module (7 mm x 6 mm x 1.28 mm), making it ideal for applications with limited component space, such as mobile phones. ”

Epson’s new GPS is already being massed produced and is alread

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