Archive for June, 2008
Add an MP3 Player Input to Your Car Stereo
If you’re sick of the poor sound quality that you get from one of those FM transmitters for your car, and you no longer have a tape deck to hook up an adapter too, then what can you do to get good sound quality from your ipod or MP3 player? Student Donn Morrison, shows us [...]
25 Skills Every Man Should Know
Popular Mechanics has picked out the most important entries from the book of man-knowledge and compiled them into this great guide for us. Now this isn’t geek specific, but every now and then we might need to build a campfire or something manly like that, and armed with this information you will have no problem.
This [...]
DIY Roll Up Keyboard
Looking for a nice keyboard to take on the go? Or you just want to do something cool with that old keyboard that you have laying around but just can’t throw out? Here is an easy little project to build a roll-up keyboard with only a USB keyboard, screwdriver and a few stickers. The result [...]
Build a Home Theater PC for $200
Home theater PCs are becoming more and more popular these days. It’s a great way to watch TV shows without being restricted to the schedule that the networks set for you. If you have a lot of media on your PC, its a lot nicer to sit on your couch and enjoy it on a [...]
Beginners Guide to Soldering
One of the most important skills for a Do It Yourselfer is the ability to solder, especially for geeks. Many of the guides posted on this site will assume that you have basic soldering skills, but for those of you who have never touched a soldering iron, here is a a great guide to help [...]
Cheap DIY Metal Detector
In this video, RazorG shows us how to make a check metal detector using nothing but an old AM radio, some tape, and a calculator. What you want to do, is to turn the volume up to max on the radio and tune it to the high end of the frequency but not directly on [...]
Build Your Own Sawed-Off USB Thumb Drive
Well this DIY project isn’t necessairly the most useful, but it sure has the potential to be a lot of fun! This guide shows you how to build your very own unique USB thumb drive that ends up looking like a sawed off usb cable.
The guide is pretty thorough and it’s actually surprisingly simple to [...]
