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DIY – How to make a tatoo gun using your toothbrush!

Posted on February 6, 2007 by max
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You will need this for your next homemade tatoos… :p

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DIY – GENOMIC DNA EXTRACTION AND GEL ELECTROPHORESIS EXPERIMENT

Posted on February 5, 2007 by max
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Check out this cool DNA extraction using everyday materials! Although I am no where near a genetic scientist, this might be something I can try… (So I can find out which dog left their pee mark on my walls…)

DNA extraction and separation by agarose gel electrophoresis is a simple and exciting process that anyone can perform. However, the high cost of specialized equipment and chemicals often hinder such an experiment from being carried by members of the high school community. Here, we describe a cost eff

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Hands-on with the AtariLab Kit

Posted on February 5, 2007 by max
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I’ve been witness to some retro Atari’s you can buy at Target for like 30 bucks. Here’s some cool kits you can actually put sensors and make it act as an MCU.

AtariLab is a sensor kit for the 8-bit Atari computers. I ordered two of the kits recently, the starter kit and the light kit, and they both arrived in pristine condition. They work great with the Atari 130XE, but the light sensor was giving me some random readings (replacing the photoresistor in that wouldn’t be hard). The breakout board attaches to the

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DIY – FM Transmitter

Posted on February 5, 2007 by max
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Here’s a cool little design for your future FM transmitter.  (I’ve built similar ones before, the challenge is, can you build one that’s stereo and noise-free?)

Using the simple designs of Tetsuo Kogawa, Japanese engineer famous for “party radio” and “polymorphous radio,” Neighborhood Public Radio will spread the gospel of micro-transmission in a 3-hour build your own pocket micro-transmitter workshop. Bring your soldering iron (if you have one) and an Altoids tin… and Ne

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Balancing Robot – Balbot kits

Posted on February 5, 2007 by max
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I just ran into this balancing bot kit. Kinda pricey but cool that you can get one. (Can we get some samples?)

Now, you can build your balbot using this kit instead of starting from scratch!

The BalBot Advanced kit includes everything the Basic kit does, PLUS the BrainBoard microcontroller board, 2 forward-looking infrared distance sensors, a programmer, serial cable, C-compiler, and more (see kit contents below for details)!

In short, the BalBot Advanced kit includes all the

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DIY HACK – The Orb – mini ITX hack project

Posted on February 5, 2007 by max
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Check out this cool orb that has a mini ITX that serves as a HTPC, Fileserver, and HTTP Server! Cool space looking design, maybe a grill was used here… You can make your next media PC like this and put it next to your TV and let your friends admire it.

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AVR LED Clock

Posted on February 5, 2007 by max
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Ah ha! Here’s a cool AVR LED Clock you can make that also syncs itself with the NTP time server via ethernet! (We are going to have to make this too…)

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DIY – Desk Lamp using your old scanner (or broken scanner)

Posted on February 4, 2007 by max
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Here’s a cool DIY on making a desk lamp using your old scanner.

This instructable shows you how to make a desk lamp out of scrounged scanner parts and a few extras from Home Depot.

I have set up a small solar array, controller and a storage battery. I wanted to make some low power lighting that I can use in my office that would not consume a lot of power.

I had a bunch of scanner parts lying around and decided to put them to good use.

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Make a Trebuchet – Make: Video Podcast

Posted on February 4, 2007 by max
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Here’s a trebuchet you can make this weekend! Try catching some marshmellows using your trebuchet. :p

TTA (Try and try again, also optimize…)

Here’s the pdf if you need it.

In this podcast you’ll see how to build a paperclip trebuchet and a medium sized trebuchet. The paperclip trebuchet can be made in under an hour and it teaches you a lot about how they work.

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DIY Hack video – 100 psi Air cannon, 45cal Coil Gun, and more!

Posted on February 2, 2007 by max

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Check out this video with cool hacks in one made by a crazy mad scientist!

Hacked Gadgets friend FastMHz has been busy doing all sorts of experiments, and this crazy mad scientist has captured it on tape for our enjoyment! Not sure if all fingers and toes are still accounted for, I think I would be hiding (cowering) behind something solid for most of these tests.

After watching the video those wall mounted can crushers seem so useless, I wan

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