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diy February 7, 2008 posted by
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Classic Nixie Tube Clock Kit – the right price for the right time

This Classic Nixie Tube Clock Kit is remarkable not for its design so much as the price. A mere $169.95 buys you a classic form factor and a very cool desk ornament. Anachronistic it may be, but hey, eccentricity is the privilege of the wealthy and carefree eh? You can also buy either of the aluminium or teak wood models for $209.95 ready assembled.  Features six IN14 Nixie tubes mounted in a beautiful hand crafted Teak and Maple base. The base finish…


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diy February 7, 2008 posted by
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Build your own Noise Cancelling Headphones for just $20.00 – cheap, cheerful and probably pretty quiet

DIY $20.00 Noise Reduction Headphones.  Build your own noise reduction headphones for $20.00 and a bit of time. OK, so you’re not expecting Bose quality here are ya? Well good. But it’s a neat hack anyway. Tags: diy+noise+cancelling+headphones, gadgets, video


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diy February 5, 2008 posted by
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Digital DIY Voice Changer Kit – build your own prank machine and laugh laugh laugh

Digital Voice Changer Kit. This DIY voice changer will give you literally minutes of top class, never to be forgotten fun and frolics as you robotize, vibratoize and re-pitch your vocal chords on demand. We’re talking a line out interface and 1.5 watts of output here, people, it’s gonna rock your house. Or get you punched in the nose. Maybe. $13.95.  Just like the expensive units you hear the DJ’s use, it changes your voice in a multitude of effects!…


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Bookmark This! February 1, 2008 posted by
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$1.00 DIY Camera Stabilizer – working with the string theory

$1.00 DIY Camera Stabilzer. Interesting video how-to on making your own ghetto camera stabilizer. Not sure how well it will work in practice, but it makes for a fun show. If you’re into video, you’ll want to check out the very cool Poor Man’s Steadicam (which we’ve featured before I think). Tags: $1+camera+stabilizer, video, photography


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Bookmark This! January 30, 2008 posted by
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Roxer web site creator – fast, simple and very cool web design tool

Roxer is cool. Very cool. Yes it’s just a web site creator, but my how far we’ve come since the drudgy days of Geocities peeps. The whole thing takes minimalism to a new dimension. Want to edit your page? Click the padlock bottom left, and drag and drop your elements around the page instantly. No mess, no fuss. Text, menu items, images, makes no difference. The control panel for all this editing loveliness is a tiny bar, again bottom left…


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Awesome January 28, 2008 posted by
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Ponoko – design, test and make stuff using the world’s first online craft factory outlet

Ponoko. This new online craft factory service has got to be one of the most ambitious applications I’ve come across in a long time. It’s basically an online DIY custom product factory outlet, complete with design, manufacturing and sales functionality. Totally wild! OK, so you come up with brilliant idea, right? Maybe a new design for a desk clock, some cool jewelry or a rad shelving unit. Pop along to Ponoko, download their starter kit with size templates and instructions for…


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cool tech January 24, 2008 posted by
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Drum Buddy & BeatBearing – DIY instruments prove that invention is the mother of Frank Zappa

Drum Buddy is a great example of what seems to be a growing trend towards ‘build your own’ musical instruments. OK, so a lot of them seem to be a little..ah…digital and not hugely melodic, but it’s a start. Open source the music making business we say. So to say, take a look at the BeatBearing video too, ‘cause it is also digital cool. Tags: gadget, drum+buddy, beatbearing, music+instruments


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cool tech January 17, 2008 posted by
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Best of Make – fun geek things to do with your massive spare time

The Best of Make book is out and it’s a fun read. If you’re an obsessive geek head with a compulsion to create useful artifacts which wobble, vibrate, glow and…well…geek at you all day long. Many of the 75 projects may not be that useful, but they’re definitely F.U.N. and they’ll earn you credit down at the next LAN party all right, no question. You’ll need a good understanding of electronics to cope with the more advanced projects, so be…


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diy January 16, 2008 posted by
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DIY Fire Alarm Clock – loud, loud, and red, red..

This DIY Fire Alarm Clock may be overkill, but hey, maybe you’re a little deaf? Eh? What’s that you say?  This hack takes a standard cheap alarm clock, some interface components and a fire alarm bell to get the job done right. Normally these small alarm clocks use a piezo buzzer to attempt to wake you up. The alarm signal is hijacked from the clock circuit board and used as an input to the interface board. Tags: diy+fire+alarm+clock, gadget


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diy January 1, 2008 posted by
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How to make emergency eyeglasses – jungle survival 102

How to make some emergency eyeglasses. Useful little tip, no?  These emergency glasses are designed to restore a bit of your sight by working on the principle of the pinhole camera. The pinhole captures only certain straight rays of light that focus on the retina of the eye (or on the film plane of a pinhole camera). Align several of these pin holes onto an opaque surface and look through it, and voila! – each hole becomes a tiny lens…


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cool tech December 21, 2007 posted by
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IDE to SD Card Adapter – embed an SD/MMS slot in your desktop PC

This IDE to SD Card Adapter is a pretty cool way to embed an SD slot into your PC to read all those camera cards and stuff. You can even boot the system from the SD card if it has the relevant O/S on it. No drivers needed, the host simply sees the memory card as an IDE drive. Fantastico, eh?Terribly geek of course, but we still love it. $24.99.  The IDE To SD (MMC) / MS adapter is an…


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Bookmark This! December 10, 2007 posted by
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3D Box Maker – need a box graphic for your new product?

3D Box Maker. Need a box graphic for your new software, gadget, or whatever? Just upload three images and press Create. Voila. Handles the popular graphics formats like jpg and png and gives a choice of box styles (CD, DVD etc). Simple and nicely useful.  3d package is a 3d-box graphic generator. 3d package lets you instantly create 3d-box images online, free! Just upload pictures for cover and sides and then get 3d-box in you favorite image format (JPG, GIF,…


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diy December 7, 2007 posted by
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Wedding Chapel – the ultimate DIY nuptials location?

Buying your own Wedding Chapel could be the perfect way to create the ultimate wedding bliss memories. Not sure whether the company guarantees the dappled snow covered rural scene, but hey, it’s December. The bad news is you need space to stick this thing, and what are you going to do once the reception is over? Oh and you’ll need $21,420.47 in order to party.  Delivered Fully Assembled! Great for a church service getaway wedding chapel or other experience you want…


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cool tech December 6, 2007 posted by
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XR-3 Hybrid – three wheeler hybrid kit will give 225 mpg…eventually

The XR-3 Hybrid Kit Car is a three wheeled diesel-electric hybrid concept vehicle that will offer up 200+ mpg fuel economy and a maximum speed of 85 mph. Sure it’s a three wheeler with only two seats, but it’s still interesting. I’m calling it a concept because it looks like the project has slipped quite a bit from a planned launch earlier this year, and the idea is that the company will sell kit plans and eventually ready made vehicles….


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