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Video DIY – Use Lemons as Batteries

Posted on January 20, 2007 by max

Here’s a cool video of using lemons to power an LED! (which is about 1.8 to 3V!)

Now, how many Lemons do we need to power a 60 watt light bulb?

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Baseball size HAIL!

Posted on January 20, 2007 by max

video://www.metacafe.com/watch/391000/baseball_sized_hail/

I’ve been hearing about these hails that could smash 30 cars in like couple seconds, here’s a video to prove that.  Take a look at the TV crew Suburban that got SMASHED!  Holy cow!

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Nintendo Wii Hacked – CUSTOM Built Wii Laptop!

Posted on January 20, 2007 by max

video://blip.tv/file/get/Nithar-CustomBuiltWiiLaptop210

Yes, take a Nintendo Wii and put some creativity with some work to get a custom built wii laptop!

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Circuit Bending – Make: Video Podcast

Posted on January 19, 2007 by max
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video://blip.tv/file/get/Make-MakePodcastCircuitBending947

Tight, Bre’s onto some more old school hacking at Make!

In this Weekend Projects podcast, Bre Pettis is joined by circuit bender Justin Gerardy to explain how to circuit bend. Then we bent up a Speak and Read and an Omnichord. With the omnichord, we found everything by probing around for cool sounds. If you’ve never done this, you’ve gotta try it out and circuit bend up some 80’s electronics!

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Cool Touch notes – Quick Note on Touch Sensors — QT113/118

Posted on January 19, 2007 by max
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Here’s some cool quick notes on touch sensors QT113/118 for those of you trying to invent touch enabled systems.

I need a touch sensor for a couple of projects, and the Qprox QT113 seems to be the way to go, particularly for interfacing with an Atmel processor. It’s easy to work with, and hooks-up with only a bare minimum of extra stuff. All you need is a resistor and capacitor and a bit of wire or trace to compose the sensor.

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DIY – LED Shirt!

Posted on January 18, 2007 by max
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This one has been around but it’s too cool.

Cool LED Shirt you can make yourself!

design 1. Pick a garment to sew on, a pattern that will let you sew your own garment, or design your own pattern.

2. Design your display. decide on the number of LEDs you want and their general placement. This will depend on the garment you chose and the microcontroller yo

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BIX Light – a GIANT LED!

Posted on January 18, 2007 by max
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Here’s some giant LEDs for your viewing pleasure! Also check out detailed project documentation!

BIX is a permanent light- and media installation for the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria by realities:united architects from Berlin. A matrix of 930 fluorescent lamps

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DIY HACK – Make your own LED Bedroom!

Posted on January 18, 2007 by max
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Check out this cool DIY on making your own LED Pimp Bedroom and RGB light HOWTO!

I got this idea last year from a couple different things, one was this rope lightdecoration at the Illini Union courtyard cafe that continuously changes colors. The other was from this huge bright LED sign at Irving Park and Sheridan in Chicago that is at s

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Real Estate Prices on Satellite and more!

Posted on January 17, 2007 by max
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Check out Zillow.com for some cool current real estate prices by satellite images. Thanks Brian for the info!

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Charging ANYthing!

Posted on January 17, 2007 by max
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Cool way to power everything in one box in this hectic world with more than enough power adaptors that we need.

“I made my own charging center for all my electronic gadgets (phone, PDA, iPod, Nintendo DS, etc.)–it’s a box with a power strip inside, and holes for the ends of the various proprietary cords to poke out. It’s really nice-looking, too (if I do say so myself). It was an easy pr

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