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DIY HACK – HOW TO make a Rotating LCD!

Wow, check out this cool DIY on how to make a rotating LCD! This IS very useful for reading PDFs and whatnot. If you don’t want to make one or you are about buy a new LCD, there’s also bunch of LCDs out there that already rotates. (which I use at work) CNET has a great review of rotating LCDs.

This fixture is very usefull for rotate 90 degrees the monit

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DIY Thumb Pianos!

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

Wow, check out some of these really cool DIY Thumb Pianos!

Sometimes an instrument you know can become something else altogether. Bob Collier has been constructing his own thumb pianos, adding amplification, effects, self-sampling features, and novel cases involving recycled camera bodies and faux fur. As Bob says, “Sometimes the crudest and roughest looking kalimbas can sound surprisingly good especially with the right context of fx and amplification.”

I find kalimbas beautiful and delicate to begin with.

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DIY – How to Turn a T-shirt into a sexy girl’s shirt

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa4HDtfPoQQ

This is really cool. I think I am going to make a couple of these for my gf.

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Automatic Color Sorting

video://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8009197320871805082

Check out this Automatic Color Sorting DIY that uses some DC and stepper motors from an old HP printer and uses Parallax’s new 32bit processor as the brain. Brilliant!

This could be great to low budget project requiring color sorting.

Once the Sensor was figured out I started to build everything. Most of the parts including the DC motor and stepper mo

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DIY HACK – Build your own Altoids Digital Thermometer!

Here’s a fun little project Digital Thermometer DIY that you can read and make your own with an Altoids can!

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This instructable will show you how to create a multifunction platform with a thermometer, chronograph (count up timer), count down timer, and light display. It is also intended to be a platform for other analog s

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MAGICal – Wine Bottle Magic

video://www.metacafe.com/watch/538196/think/

Oh man, this is freakin’ smart.

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DIY – How to make an authentic Mouse using a Dead Mouse

video://blip.tv/file/get/InstructablesTV-MouseMouse828

Here’s a cool DIY on how to make a mouse using a dead mouse.  It’s ironic because we found some mouse running around at my girfriend’s brother’s apartment the other day…  But that’s a cute mouse.  I don’t have the nerves to make one myself though.

Hacked travel-size (hardware) mouse + taxidermied (wetware) mouse = Mouse Mouse! Fully functional,

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DIY – Build your own Johnny 5 Lego Mindstorm NXT!

This is awesome! Johnny 5 (Short Circuit) is one of my favorite movies ever and here’s a Johnny 5 Mindstorm NXT you can make!

Johnny 5 is ALIVE!

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DIY HACK – How to make a Solar Heater under 50 bucks!

Here’s a great DIY on how to make a solar heater. Although the one he made is not functional you can probably easily make it functional by adding an inlet pipe and outlet pipe plus a small PC fan. But the theory is very impressive and this thing could be made more efficient with

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