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diy August 13, 2010 posted by
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Banpresto Bath Bomb Maker – DIY bath time fizzles

The Banpresto Bath Bomb Maker gives you ultimate power over baking soda and essential oils to create fizzy balls of bath time mirth and smells. The instructions seem easy, and as a cost saver it’s probably worth your time and effort. Around $76.00 in Yen like.  Just use the Bath Bomb Maker to create your very own pimped Fragant Bath bombs by mixing baking soda, citric acid, and essential oils or other aromatics into a small ball. Once drop in your…


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Bookmark This! July 30, 2010 posted by
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Solar Powered Wireless Webcam – keeping tabs on remote places 24/7

Iain Barclay bought a field one day. And wanted some way to look at it, when he wasn’t there. So he went ahead and built himself a clever Solar Powered Wireless Webcam –  which he calls a FieldCam –  using some off the shelf parts, a 3G cellular phone dongle and router, and a custom circuit board. The result is very cool. He’s stuck the box in the field, and set it up to trickle charge constantly, and power up the…


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diy July 27, 2010 posted by
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Wise Hammer – find it, flash it, bash it

This Wise Hammer contains a stud finder as well as a heavy metal bit for hitting nails. Hold the handle up against the wall, watch for the flashing light and bleeping sound and then bash your nail into the centre of the stud every time. Genius? $29.98.  To find stud edges, place the butt of the handle against a wall and move it until the red light flashes and hammer beeps. Use the built-in nub to mark the edges to…


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diy July 20, 2010 posted by
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ArduPilot Flight Kit – create your own unmanned aerial vehicle, just like the big boys

Why should the military have all the fun? The ArduPilot Flight Kit contains just about everything you need to convert an ordinary radio controlled model plane into a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) just like on the late night news. Quite why you’d want to be flying something like this around your neighbourhood is your own business, good luck with the local cops though. Anyhoo, you’ll probably want to take a look at the DIY Drones site as well, while you’re…


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Bookmark This! June 23, 2010 posted by
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FrameXpert – create your own metal furniture online

FrameXpert is a new online service which lets you design and create your own metal furniture products. OK, so we’re talking equipment rack and cabinet type stuff rather than designer coffee tables, but it’s an interesting application in any event. To get started you need to download the free designer software, after which you can go crazy setting out your design. Once you’re done, click on the Buy button, pay your money and the thing will be built and shipped to you forthwith….


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Awesome June 23, 2010 posted by
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Chocri Create My Chocolate – DIY chocoholic heaven

This Chocri Create My Chocolate site is one destination you will definitely want to stay away from. Unless you’re into designing your own Belgian chocolate bars while donating money to African cocoa growers. Yep, not a place to visit at all. Seriously. Sigh, well don’t say we didn’t warn you! [Via]  chocri is a German startup, founded in September 2008, but launched in the US in January 2010. What we do is we allow you to customize your own chocolate…


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cool tech June 10, 2010 posted by
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Turbo Boost your WiFi Signal in 15 mins – with a bit of foil and a DIY template

Suffering from low signal in your WiFi network because of too many walls in the way or whatever? Try this quick and dirty DIY WiFi Antenna hack, which apparently significantly boosts your signal on the cheap (i.e. no repeaters needed). There’s a little confusion over whether the foil goes on the back or the front of the antenna, but that’s easy enough to test right? Useful. More here. [Via]  # Download Template # Open in MS Paint and resize as…


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Bookmark This! June 8, 2010 posted by
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AdHack – crowdsourced DIY advertising community

AdHack is a new crowdsourced DIY advertising marketplace, which links up people making ads with those looking for them. The idea is similar to SpotMixer, Zooppa and even AdReady which does DIY banner ads. The difference with AdHack is they’re supplying creative people in a range of abilities, from video ads to print and social networking. Because of this buyers can order a more coordinated campaign across different media, which makes the story much stronger. It’s great to see the…


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Awesome June 4, 2010 posted by
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Free Solar Videos – 12 things you must know before building a DIY solar panel

This excellent Free Solar Videos site offers up a bunch of free video tutorials to teach us all how to roll our own solar panel arrays and generate power for free. Once you’ve watched the videos and learned your stuff, you can then go on to use the awesome ‘worksheets’ to calculate exactly what you need to buy/build in order to craft the solar system you require. What’s really awesome is it’s laid out in totally easy to understand words, no jargon…


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Awesome April 30, 2010 posted by
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iFixit – repair your own stuff and save the whales

iFixit is a new service which aims to get everyone repairing their broken tech, instead of throwing it away, which is excellent. It’s basically a user editable wiki for consumer electronic repair manuals and the idea is that the community will come together and help each other repair their devices. The site also sells tools and parts to help get the job done which is hugely valuable. A few weeks ago I dug out an old Internet radio and found it wouldn’t…


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diy April 19, 2010 posted by
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Drawdio – the pencil that lets you draw music

Drawdio is an electronic gizmo which lets you turn anything into a musical soundboard. Attach the unit, and start playing in a glorious 8bit type sound tapestry. There you go, one of those cool geeky things that has no real utility, but looks like fun anyway. You can make it yourself via the kit, which is $17.50.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV_w38ldZaE  Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (cheap circuit thumb-tacked on) and then play them with your…


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cool tech April 16, 2010 posted by
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Map Envelope – make your own Google map envelopes

Map Envelope is a clever little online service which lets you create and print out a DIY envelope with your Google map location embedded on the inside. It’s not really useful for anything because you only get a very high flying bird’s eye view, but as a gimmick…yeah I’ll bite. Remember the glue. Tags: map+envelope, online+application, google+map


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diy April 13, 2010 posted by
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DIY Super Hero Gadgets – make your own cool super power tools

There�s nothing geekier than a nice time spent making your own super hero equipment. Of course you don�t have to go crazy and drop $70,000 on a Batman exoticar or some awesome Iron Man armor, there are simpler ways to do it. How about this fabulous Green Lantern Power Ring? Woo�super powers. More super stuff here. Tags: diy+super+hero+gadget, diy


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