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DIY – Kid’s science experiment

Posted on December 29, 2006 by max

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Here’s a cool science project for anyone including your kids.

Great science / magic trick to amaze your friends. 1. Water 2. Pepper 3. Soap / Dishwashing liquid

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DIY HACK – The simpler USB2LCD using HD44780

Posted on December 29, 2006 by max
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Here’s a cool little USB to LCD hack!

The hardware of the LCD2USB interface consists of the Atmel AVR Mega8 CPU, a cheap and easy to obtain microcontroller with 8 KBytes flash (of which ~3k are used in this application) and 2 KBytes RAM. The processor is surrounded by few parts, mainly connectors to interface to the PC and the LCD.

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Crazy Paper Folding Trick

Posted on December 29, 2006 by max

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Nice 3D paper folding trick via metacafe

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DIY HACK – Party Ball or Disco Ball

Posted on December 29, 2006 by max
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Even though this is a DIY without a smart embedded computer chip, we give props for head start on our future DIY.  It’s very rugged and has some “too much glue gun”, but we do give it 3 thumbs up for the idea, not for the design.  :0)

“Here is my version of the LED Disco Ball. Its Completely portable can either be hung or screwed to the roof. It runs on 3AA batteries and has a group of gears f

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DIY baby rocker

Posted on December 29, 2006 by max
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Nicely done! I didn’t know microwave oven had a motor…duh!

This was made by a friend of mine, in a few hours, with a microwave oven motor. A new version is already in the pipe to follow this prototype.

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UFO lands on earth!

Posted on December 29, 2006 by max

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Okay, this video’s got to be fake, what are your thoughts? via metacafe

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DIY – How to grow your own condom – The Condom Plant

Posted on December 29, 2006 by max

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This might be the most pointless video on history of condoms but is very funny! 🙂

(Not suitable for children under 18)

An experiment on how to grow your own condoms. It works! Just remember to water it once in a while. ;o)

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DIY – HOWTO make black gunpowder

Posted on December 29, 2006 by max

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I made these gunpowder when I was little using the

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DIY – How to build The Amazing Steam Candle

Posted on December 28, 2006 by max

Here’s a cool steam candle you can make!

How to make a cool rotating steam engine using only a candle and a thin tube. VERY easy to do and fun to watch! Runs for hours! This is my personal favorite for Christmas decoration 🙂

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DIY – Voice recognition system by students from Cornell

Posted on December 28, 2006 by max
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Here’s a cool DIY voice recognition system by computer engineering students at Cornell University. Nice job, keep up the good work!

When we think of programmable speech recognition, we think of calling FedEx customer service call center with automated voice recognition response systems. We also think of PC-based speech recognition Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Now we took that a step further. We are talking about speech recognition in a tiny M

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