How To Make a Laser Guided Slingshot – Video

Kip Kay set out to make a sturdy laser guided sling shot out of common parts from your local hardware store.

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DIY Secure Shocking Briefcase – Video

Get your friends with this shocking briefcase. Another useful hack/mod by KipKay of MAKE magazine -- “Booby Trapped Briefcase”

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DIY: Black Dwarf 16TB NAS

Award winning computer designer and video guy Will Urbina sets out to make a custom 16TB+ networked attached storage device. Will uses a Quanmax Industrial KEEX-2030 Atom 3.5″ Mainboard (Intel Atom N270) to power the NAS. The clear case angle stacks eight 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green hard drives. His modding and video production skills clearly show in his videos.

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Home Built Cotton Candy Machine – Video

Have a craving for some sweet cotton candy, but the fair is not in town. All you need to make it at home is two juice caps, small hobby electric motor and a lighter. Put it together and spin yourself a spool of delicious candied cotton goodness.

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DIY Solar Water Heater, Missionary Style

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Something we take for granted in the US is a constant flow of hot water into our homes. Missionary Jake sets up a inventive thermosyphon solar hot water heater in remote Brazil. This kind of system comes in handy, especially if you have 5000 watt electric shower heater, 5000 watts! That’s like five of those ridiculously inefficient space heater all running at the same time.

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Video: Computer Virus Halloween Prank

In light of Halloween today, here is a bit of mischief you can do to your close friends and family members. You can download the flash executable here.

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Video: Key Fob Activated Dorm Door Opener

This cleaver collage student rigged up his dorm door to unlock and lock with a simple automotive style Key Fob.

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Weed Wacker Powered Bicycle Of Death

Weed Wacker + Bicycle = Assume leg chewing machine

How to build a weedeater motorized bicycle by Davids Farm.

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Super Charged Alarm Clock

Kip Kay is serious about waking up on time. He adds some automotive style driven horns to his cheap old alarm clock. The results a alarm clock from hell.

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DIY Arduino: Interfacing Memsic 2125 Tutorial

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Great little tutorial about interfacing the Arduino microcomputer to a Memsic 2125 Accelerometer. Calculating g-forces you can detect tilt, acceleration, rotation, and vibration.

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