Sunday, October 29, 2006

Keg Costume

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"Take an old keg, and with a few hours, a plasma cutter, a jig saw, and some big suspenders you have yourself a nice keg costume."

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HOWTO: Lego Minifig costume

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"Two years ago, I decided to make a Lego minifig (ie: "Lego man") costume for Halloween. The hardest part was building the head. Here's how I did it."

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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Build a solar iPod charger

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"I looked everywhere for a lightweight solar iPod charger. Nothing fancy, just something I could attach to the top of my backpack. I couldn?t find one anywhere, I couldn?t even find instructions on how to build one. So, I set about building one for myself."

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Friday, October 27, 2006

Floppy Drive Pan Cam

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"The goal of the game was to make a webcam panning unit out of things I had lying around on my table. Then this would be made accesible via a web interface, so that a person watching the webcam images could move the camera."

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Monday, October 23, 2006

How To Decode your drivers license barcodes

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""Using a cool little program I dug up on the web, and a scanner I was able to decode the barcodes on the back of my NY drivers license, and find out what information people get when they scan it. I'm pretty sure that just decoding the barcode is not illegal, but some of the other things I describe probably are, so let those be just proof of concept"

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Fan Modding with LEDs

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"Giving an old fan new life."

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Sunday, October 22, 2006

The Pumpkinputer

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"Nice mod for the Halloween addicted geek."

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