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Salvage Parts From a Computer Mouse
Salvaging electronic parts is a must for any serious DIY’er. Not only to you save on costs to purchase parts new, but you are helping the environment and increasing your changes that when you want to start a project, you already have the parts that you need to complete it. No more waiting for the [...]
How To Build Your First Robot - The BeetleBot v2
The BeetleBot is a small simple robot that is a great project for getting started in robotics. It uses no electronics component to avoid obsticals, instead it uses two SPDT switches to avoid objects by reversing the opposite motor to free itself.
The parts list is pretty simple which will allow you to build this without [...]
Build Your Own iPod Boombox
If you’re looking for an easy and portable way to listen to your ipod somewhere without headphones, we’ve found a solution for you. The materials for this are pretty cheap, and you can build it pretty quickly. All you need are some small computer speakers that either run on batteries, or dont require a wall [...]
Build A Clock Using Analog Meters
I found an interesting blog post about how someone built a clock using three analog meters to show the time, one for hours, one for minutes, and one for seconds. He designs the circuit and uses a PIC microcontroller to control the clock. Although the code isn’t posted, it’s a great article and a really [...]
How To Build Retractable Headphones
This is another one from the DIY site Instructables.com that shows how you can turn your favorite pair of headphones into a compact retractable pair. All you need is your choice pair of headphones and a retractable cable such as the USB cables that you can buy.
Yes you can go out and buy a pair [...]
Build Your Own DIY Air Conditioner
Summer is definitely here, and I dont see it geting any cooler until it gets a little warmer still. So if its money, logistics, or whatever might be keeping you from that comfortable air conditioned climate, this project might be a nice investment for you.
We have two levels of DIY Air Conditioners, depending on how [...]
How To Make an RGB Combination Door Lock
Adding a custom built electronic lock somewhere in your living quarters can be viewed as a geek’s right of passage. The team over at Hack A Day decided to take this one step further and ditch the boring number keypad and replace it with a custom RGB backlit keypad.
Instead of typing numbers in to unlock [...]
How To Upgrade Your TiVo Hard Drive For More Space
No matter what version of the TiVo you may have, if you’re a true TV lover, you are probably constantly being reminded of your storage limits for recorded shows. If this sounds familiar, you might want to think about upgrading the storage capacity for your TiVo. The full process may not be for someone looking [...]
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 [...]
