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Laptop DIY – How to Clean Your Laptop CPU Fans!

Posted on June 2, 2009 by max

The #1 cause for laptop failures are the CPU fan grills filling up with dust and making your fans no longer operable.  Once you start hearing extra “fan sounds” in your laptop, it probably means your CPU fans are stuck with dust and it’s time to clean them.  If you don’t, your CPU will overheat and the laptop will ultimately give you the blue screen of death now and then.

But it’s not too hard to clean your laptop CPU fans, the hard part is just getting to it depending on the brand.

HP laptops in general have horrible fan-grill designs, I have p

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Forge DIY – How to Make a Knife!

Posted on May 28, 2009 by max

I have always been fond of knife-making, makes me twitch every time I see it on TV, here’s how to build your own knife, you will first need to make some type of iron-burning system as shown below.

The implications are tremendous, this forge can easily double as a small melting furnace exactly as it sits for Aluminum and copper based alloys. And this opens the door to cast alloy handles and fastening hardware for knives beyond the original function of heating the steel to the point that it can be worked.

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Dirt-Powered Soil Lamp!

Posted on March 17, 2009 by max

We’ve seen a slew of solar-powered lamps in the last couple years but this is the very first time “dirt”, (yes, the stuff that’s on your ground) has been used to power a lamp.  We wonder how long this will go, specifically when it will be available to the consumers.

The soil lamp uses the chemical reaction between copper, zinc, and slightly moistened mud to create enough electrical current to power an LED lamp. More cells can be used to create a brighter light

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DIY HACK – How to run an AVR MCU on a battery made out of lime!

Posted on April 3, 2007 by max

Here’s a cool little DIY on how to run an AVR MCU on battery made out of lime!

Some of the fruit and vegetables we eat can be used to make electricity. The electrolytes in many fruit and vegetables, together with electrodes made of various metals can be used to make primary cells. One of the most easily available vegetable, the ubiquitous lemon can be used to make a fruit cell together with copper and zinc electrodes. The terminal voltage produced by such a cell is about 0.9V. Th

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