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DIY – HOWTO make money by gettin’ married!

One of our Bedzine bloggers, Colbert Low, is gettin’ married. It doesn’t stop there, he has a ProbloggerWedding blog where you can help them by donating some money and get free promotion and advertising for your company. Anyways, just wanted to get the word out. Check out his Wedding page on the OneBuckWiki.com too…

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DIY HACK – HOWTO make a fiber optic rose!

video://www.metacafe.com/watch/877958/make_an_led_fiber_optic_rose_great_birthday_or_valentines/

Wow, here’s a great DIY video on making your own custom fiber optic rose!

Using a few LEDs and really cheap fiber optics, I made this dead sexy, illuminated fiber optic rose.

via HackedGadgets

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FixYa.com – For DIYers and ethically honest at heart HACKers!

Check out FixYa, it’s a sorta like a RSS Feed search Engine.

(Spy Stats: FixYa.com has PR6 and has 1680 backlinks on Google. Pretty good stuff.)

Meaning it will pull up hundreds of relevant articles for the topic, “how to fix something”.

Interesting if this is sign of Web3.0. = RSS + Wiki + Blog + Optimized Server Code for Search.

Maybe someone will quickly think of hooking up a WordPress blog with the MediaWik…

Anyways, FixYa just looked great to me from the get-go. I think i

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DIY HACK – How to make your own Cool LED Lamp Art

Check out this really really simple DIY on how to make your own Cool LED Lamp Art using LEDs, acrylic glass, and some creativity.

LED of LED The lights are approximately twenty times the scale of an actual LED bulb. Not only does the product show the beauty of the LED structure, but it also creates a special visual effect on the ceiling, 12 LED bulbs are refracted through the Acrylic glass lens to generate this pattern. Materials: Alumin

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DIY HACK – HOWTO sense Squeeze!

Ohhh….. here’s a really cool DIY HACK that can sense your squeeze. (This might be good for making an adult-related game…then again…)

I’m researching squeeze sensing as a mode of tactile interface. Here I will cover the process of developing a squeezeable sensor and the firmware/software concerns associated with interpreting the data from the sensor. This fulfills the “sensor project” for my class called Computational Princi

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DIY HACK – HOWTO make your own Jacobs Ladder!

Here’s a cool DIY on making your very own Jacobs Ladder. I always goto Fry’s with my friend Eric and find that they have this giant Jacobs Ladder that’d go off as soon as you were about to touch motherboards and whatnot. But this is great that now I know how it’s made.

The basic construction and principle of a Jacobs ladder is that a metal vee is formed from two bits of wire and a high voltage is applied acr

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Circuit Board Earings and Keyboard Cufflinks!

Check out some of the cool circuit board earing and keyboard cufflinks if you are a hardcore hacker! Thanks Nicola for the tip!

Thought your might get a kick out of my DIY geekware over at www.acornstudios.ca

I’ve just finished updating with a whole bunch of new creations that I think your readers might like if they are into fun geeky gifts. All hand made by me up in Edmonton, Canada.

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HPV – Human Powered Vehicle or Cool Bike we say

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PAT1i3m-Dg

Wow, there’s so much stuff still to come from our Maker Faire 2007 coverage. It’s like a massive virus or a bomb that hasn’t released itself yet…

With all the cool bikes we’ve covered in the past, this is probably the coolest bike, well at least the most technological “lookin'”. I am not exactly sure where this bike is from, I think we’ve covered it before but…

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HID Portal – Build Your Own USB Devices!

Looking for the HID Portal?  Did you see us at Maker Faire?

Garrett will have updates soon on the cool HID Portal used to control the flying game at the Maker Faire.

While we update our site on the HID Portal, you can check out Garrett’s previous DIYs:

 Check out the original DIY on the HID Portal.

Check out Maker Faire Preview.

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DIY HACK – Wireless Keyless Entry using Relays

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9VTfzYiOQg

Here’s a very simple wireless keyless entry DIY using some relays and stuff, very similar to the Wiimote Door Unlocker.

The mechanism is simple enough, just a momentary button on the panel in my apartment, but the mess of wires in the wall is a little unsettling. I took some meter readings of the terminals and sorted out the door button wiring

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