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DIY HOWTO – PUT Wikipedia on your IPOD!

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Here’s an awesome DIY HACK on howto put wikipedia on your ipod!

I’ve commented now and again that I’d be willing to pay upwards of $100 for a handheld version of Wikipedia — one that I can sync via WiFi, then take on the bus and read to my heart’s content. Unfortunately, the market doesn’t seem to be responding to my lone cry… so I wrote a Perl script

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DIY HOWTO – Turn a standard Xbox 360 video cable into a VGA cable!

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Here’s a cool DIY for ya if you have an XBOX 360 via engadget

Recent Xbox 360 updates have allowed the system to spit out resolutions up to 1080p, and with the new HD DVD add-on drive there’s more reason than ever to use a high quality VGA signal instead of the more standard 3-cable component. However there

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DIY – Induction Heater

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Cool little video on induction heater…

I used a PLL driver an H-bridge from my solid-state Tesla coil. The H-bridge is connected to the primary of a ferrite transformer with a 0,66uF capacitor in series.

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Garrett’s DIY – Upcoming Boe-Bot Hacks – Remote Controlled Insect

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Here’s a video of upcoming boe-bot hacks from Garrett using a Parallax Boe-Bot platform and CUBLOC CB220.as brain. This little creature has couple of cool looking features such as a tail, antennas, and eyes that can be remote-controlled via a regular TV remote-control. HOWTO w

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Garre’ts DIY – Home Automation Project – Part One: Real-Time Clock and Calendar

Garrett shows you how to setup your time and automatically sync with your PC’s time on the CB290 Proto Board, so you can program to do a lot of things such as

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Hack Wii

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Hohoho, here’s first wii hack from instructables via Make!

Other links to cool wii stuff:

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DIY Circuit Oxygen Sensor Simulator

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Here’s a cool oxygen sensor simulator via hackaday for those of you who need to build some custom control system for your turbo, nitrous, super-charged engines.  I used to have a car that I put a turbo-charger on it.  Well, I had this really crude fuel oxygen control management system using couple

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HOW TO – Make a DVD burner into a High-Powered laser

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Here’s howto turn your DVD burner laser into a laser you can use to point at random things… (don’t point at people)

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HOW TO – Serial controlled variable speed motor

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Here’s a cool DIY on how to control a DC motor using your serial port via Make.

Westsw shows you how to control the speed of a small DC motor with nothing but the serial port on your computer, a single MOSFET, and DOS commands…

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Mind Camp 3.0 – MAKE Draw bot!

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Wow, this looks tight! I need one of these…via make

Taken at Seattle Mind Camp 3.0 – Seattle’s premiere un-conference featuring the best and brightest of technology all under the same roof for 24 hours learning from each other, and exploring our passions. Most shots taken with a Lensbaby 2G – The MAKE crew was there and they brought their hand crafted drawing robot. Tak

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