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DIY HACK – Deer Repellent

Here’s a cool Deer Repellent for those of you with deers on your front yard that eat up your plants. But just turn it off on Christmas so Rudolph the Raindeer doesn’t get scared.

My original “Deer Repellent/ Seismic Sensor” recommended using a speaker with a weight glued to the cone as a vibration sensor (see bottom of page) but it recently occurred to me that the speaker could supply the mass itself. By gluing

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DIY SOLAR HACK – How to make a Parabolic Solar Cooker

Check out these really large solar cookers you can use to cook some food. Maybe they will be able to commercialize this and let people cook some steaks on it instead of using up our precious earth resources.

One of the easiest beginnings for a parabolic solar cooker can be found in thousands of backyards across the United States-the satellite dish, from the large C-band to the small digital dish

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Post-It Super Mario and Donkey Kong!

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1OvgEXgSQo

Remember our post on Post-It Pixel Wall? Well, here’s some Post-It Super Mario and Donkey Kong from 10 UC Santa Cruz students. Great job guys!

Donkey Kong (Miyamoto, et. al.,1981) was the first appearance of the Itallian plumber we now know as Mario. While this game’s early ’80s arcade popularity predates mo

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DIY WordPress HACK – How to decrease the load on your WordPress blog by 5 factors!

Here’s how to decrease the load on your WordPress blog by 5 factors! (if you are running a dedicated server)I was digging today for some stuff on digg and noticed this post about WordPress performance.

Since Zedomax runs WordPress, I decided to take a look.

Elliott was running only one server yet he claims that

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Make Balloon headed for space!

video://blip.tv/file/get/Make-BalloonTracking735

Here’s a cool video of Bre trying to track his ballon that’s headed for space. You gotta check out the real-time data tracking which is the coolest part.

Good luck in spotting your balloon!

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DIY Circuit HACK – Moon Clock

A lot of Asian cultures still use the moon clock for calculating their birthdays. For whatever reason, our family still cannot figure out my mom’s birthday as it was originally recorded as a Moon day… Well we could figure it out using some moon calculators

Anyways, check out the moon caclulator here.

Despite the hour hand only roughly modeling the sun&

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MAC TV Hack – How to run Mac OSX on MAC TV!

video://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1840427990015549546

Well, we know we are a little behind on the MAC TV hacks, but here’s how to run Mac OSX on MAC TV.  Check out the funny Apple fights Apple hacks also… These guys need some vicodin…seriously… that’s so anal dudes…(probably some dudes dressed in Louis Vuitton shirts and thinki

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DIY HACK – How to make a Wireless Wall LCD Digital Photo Frame

Here’s a nice wireless wall digital photo frame howto.

A quick search of the web turned up several do-it-yourself articles by photographers that had built their own digital frames – typically from discarded laptops. The laptop based digital frames have larger screens (10” to 15”), and tend to be reasonably inexpensive to build (provided you own a discarded laptop).

The laptop projects that I saw had a couple of common issues, however. All of them involved taking the laptop apart completely and ge

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DIY CELLPHONE HACK – Receive police transmissions!

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnDk9KLezt4

This is got to be a joke…

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DIY – Dress made out of Wood!

Wow, check this out, a dress made out of wood! (well carved actually) Kalina made all sorts of stuff out of wood. Check out some of her other cool creations.

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