DIY (Do It Yourself)
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
We have seen lots of Projector Screen hacks over the last few years, this one demos the power of the system quite well. It doesn’t take much hardware to provide some fantastic results! The video game gun use is a natural extension of the technology.
How To: Make Bath Bombs
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Everybody loves bath bombs. It is like taking a bath in champagne, only without the show tunes and chorus boys. They are fairly simple to make, keeping in mind that the strangest things can make a batch go weird; humidity, room temperature, oil viscosity, the moon rising in the seventh house of Aqua…
By: SoapyHollow
Build A Pair of Stereo Speakers
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
This instructable is a basic guide for building a pair of high quality stereo speakers. The process is not difficult but will require lots of time, patience and effort.
Here is an introduction to the few main parts of a speaker:
Speaker Drivers
This includes the woofer and tweeter. The woofer vibr…
By: billbob
DIY Laser Etching Projects
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Baccus61 has documented some of his cool DIY Laser Etching Projects. He makes etching an image on a round bottle simple!
After the jump are a few of my favorite videos he has created.
Poster Magnet Board
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
We had a need for a magnet board design that was nice to look at, easy to build, and relatively inexpensive…oh, and magnets had to stick to the surface (can’t forget that). Specifically, we needed it for our disc mounts which we created to store and display our discs around the gaming zone.
This …
By: laboratory424
Paper, Plastic, or Furoshiki?
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Plastic bags are being banned almost everywhere now, due to petroleum costs and landfill issues. Los Angeles just announced a ban on ALL disposable shopping bags… both paper and plastic. The Minister of Ecology in Japan is making an effort to spread the Japanese art of Furoshiki, which is an Origa…
By: babblin5
How to make a projection screen that’s also a painting
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
I had this idea that I would make a projection screen that doubled as a painting when you flip it over. I liked the thought that it would look like I didn’t have a TV at all while at the same time getting a cool piece of art that I actually made myself. It turned out to be a lot of work but I’m very…
By: Fylke
Garage Parking Assistant - Basic Stamp Microcontroller Based
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
This Basic Stamp Microcontroller Based Garage Parking Assistant may be overkill for the application but that is what makes it fun. 
What fun would it be to hang a tennis ball from the ceiling when you can use technology to give you a traffic light that represents your optimal parking distance.
NES gets crammed into third-party light gun, plans a 187 on Bowser
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Filed under: Gaming
Okay, okay — we get it. So maybe there’s just not enough room in a genuine Zapper to fit all the necessary innards of a Nintendo Entertainment System into, but it’s just a bit weird to see the Big N’s antiquated console crammed into some other light gun. Similar to the NES-in-an-NES-controller mod we peeked earlier this week, this unit includes a plethora of games and all the controls you need; just plug it up to a TV, pop a few batteries in there and you’re golden. Is it any surprise this guy was tracked down on Ben Heck’s own forums?
DIY Compact Survival Kit
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Wilderness survival should be taught to everyone. It can save lives, thus is an important body of knowledge. A survival kit should be cheap, and it should be simple, as this encourages more people to carry them when they go into the outdoors. In this instructable I will show, and explain how to make…
By: ledzeppie
DIY 3D Controller
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Make a 3D interface using an six resistors, aluminum foil, and an Arduino. Take that, Wii.
The basic goal here was to make a 3D hand-position sensing system that most people can build, while still preserving some semblance of functionality. To get an idea of possible applications, check out the dem…
By: kylemcdonald
Underwater ROV Project
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
This Underwater ROV Project has lots of documentation of a cool work in progress. There are lots of challenges that were faced along the way that may save one of us some time on one of our future projects.
Here are a few videos of the unit in action.
TrackIR - Head Tracking for Game Play
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
This technology looks like it works very well. I have seen lots of 2 LED motion sense units but the third LED seems to add lots to the capability. Now if only someone came up with an open source version of it since the prices seem a bit high.
"As you move in your chair and rotate your head small amounts : your game-view will precisely correspond. You never have to look away from the monitor because all aspects of your motion are amplified and adjustable. There are only 6 ways you can move around in 3D space. There are 3 ways to lean, and 3 ways to rotate. The technical term for all of these movements is "6 Degrees of Freedom" (or "6DOF"). True 6DOF support is one of the main things that puts TrackIR well ahead of any other input device."
Get A Free Haircut - Fashion Styling 2.0 - Crowd-Sourced Hairstyling
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
It’s a dog-eat-dog world. Nothing comes for free in this world. So they say…but they clearly haven’t been on the internet, where creative common licenses, knowledge sharing, yelp, and open sourced programs reign.
Web 2.0 seems to have a lot to share with life 1.0. This project is an attempt to sh…
By: lamedust
The Raven, high-pitched torture
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
This is a little device that I designed for the simple purpose of being discreetly annoying. It waits for a predetermined amount of time, and then it starts emitting high-pitched beeps. I have programmed mine to take advantage of an interesting property of sound. That is, in general most people abov…
By: Hungry_Myst
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