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Finally, after the long wait, the highly anticipated app, Now News is available in the App Store, and already shooting its way up the rankings. Here a link to it in the iTunes Store: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=318018153&mt=8

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Another great video from the Internet legend KipKay. Wow, I really want to do this because not only does it look fun but, it's simple and cheap. I just need to find a store around that sells flash paper and cotton.

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Have you ever thought that it would be cool to make your own motion detector? Well now you can with some well written instructions. You need very few parts and the whole thing will only cost a couple of bucks. The parts that you will need are:2 - Cds Cells (Photocells)1 - 741 Op Amp1 - Buzzer or alarm1 - 9 volt battery breadboard1 - 10K potentiometerNot much huh? It really is actually really easy

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If you have trouble with all of your Christmas lights going out when only one bulb becomes burnt out or stepped on and if you feel up to the challenge, you can build your own strand of LED Christmas lights. Whats even better is that you will wire the lights in parelell which means that when one bulb goes out the rest will stay on. Not only is it cool to have Christmas lights that you made

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Many of us remember the days of NES and Sega gaming platforms. But, I bet that you can't name all 68 of them from the year 1972 to today. If you think that you are up to the challenge than why not play the game? But, oh yeah, you only have twelve minutes.

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Most of us have, at least once in our lifetime, played the candy crane game, and many of us have seen on the sign on the front that says, "play until you win." Well, that gave me an idea. I started researching how the machine detects whether you have won or not and have found that it uses an infrared LED sensor and once it no longer receives the signal from the LED (when the candy falls down the

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When Arthur van Poppel found some online plans on how to build a jet fighter he took them pretty seriously. He actually built the thing! While his homemade jet won't ever take flight he can actually drive it. The jet has a scaled down version of the real thing and has collapsible wings so that he can fit it in tight spaces. "Apart from a crafty piece of machinery, the Jet Fighter is especially

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Matt Denon, a dedicated robotics expert has built the worlds first CNC machine that can walk on the material that it's getting ready to cut. He uses the Hexapod robot, which you can now buy at his store, played around with the programing, and added a drill bit. Although it only can go through styrofoam and high density foam right now, Matt is looking into the possibilities of it cutting wood and

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Max from ZedoMax built an automated Christmas light controller. All that you have to do if you want one of your own is go to his website, copy the code that he already provides, and then send it to the CuSB22R board that is shown in the video. Here is a parts list:1. CuSB22R from | cubloc.com2. AC power cord (like the one for your computer or get it here: cubloc.com)3. AC Connectors from Home

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When Realities United, an architectural design company, was put to the task of building a creative lighting design in a building in New York they sure did. They decided to use industrial fluorescent bulbs to create a clock to display the time which served as both a light source for the room and an information display. It uses two seven segment displays, designed to look like a giant LCD clock, to

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Aaron from Arron Adding Machines.Com makes and sells "antique calculators" He hand makes each of them using old wood that he finds from various places and gives them a nice antique stain. Then he drills holes in it and adds buttons from Radio Shack which hook up to a circuit board that goes to a red led display. Although this wouldn't be too hard to make it's still a great idea so good job Aaron!

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While many people are building wooden keyboards and others are making their keyboards completely black there is one that completely blows away the competition. It is called the Optimus Keyboard and each individual key is an led display that can be changed depending on what you are doing.For example, if you are using Photoshop than the keys can serve as shortcut buttons or if you are playing a

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For those of you who are prone to scratching or loosing your games for the Wii there is an easy way to back them up. First off, you will need:-Homebrew Channel-SD Card-Computer With DVD-R Burner-DVD-Rs (The higher quality the better)-Wii (Duh)-ImgBurnOnce you are sure that you have it all or at least have access to it than read this Instructalble on how to make it. It will only take a little

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If you have ever left your house without turning off your computer and you need to turn it off for whatever reason but, don't want to go home than you can set your computer up with this program. It takes only a few minutes to do and even though it really isn't practicle, although it could be (I guess), it is pretty cool. For a little more fun you can set this up on a friends or family members

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Upgrading your hard drive on your psp is much easier than you may think. Instead of paying hundreds more for a ps3 with a 160 GB hard drive just buy one with a 20 GB one and buy a 160 GB hard drive for about $130.00 which will end up costing you the same amount of money. Plus you'll have an extra 20 GB drive that you can use to make your own hard drive clock.

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For those of you with newer cars you may not need this hack since, most newer cars come with an IPod input jack. However, most of us don't have the newest cars and would like to find a way to connect our IPod's to our car's stereo without buying different things to help us do it like an FM transmitter or a diskette that connects to your IPod. Well, now you can. You need to take off your dash

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If you have a cat that just won't get off the counter than the Blender Defender may be the project for you. Mark was fed up with that so he built a system so that when his cat jumped on the counter it triggered the blender and a strobe light to go off. Like that isn't cool enough, he also has a video camera facing the blender to see how to cat reacts if he's away and the video is sent to his

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Ben Heck, a dedicated modder who strives to help others by hacking gadgets(he was also the one who made the game console laptops featured on our site in the past and the one who made the other famous one handed controller that you can buy here), has build a one handed XBox controller for those who can't use two hands for whatever reason. He got the idea from a serviceman in Iraq who had been

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If you have ever wanted to keep you drinks cool while you surf the web than this is the perfect project for you. The best part, the whole thing will only put you back a mere $2.50.

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While this make be very simple it is also very cool and doesn't take much time or money to build. So why not?

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This is a pretty neat hack although it serves no real purpose. The creators say that they want it to be a more "cultural piece" and not a "problem solving gadget." To see some pictures visit their flikr page.

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If you think that your new plasma or lcd tv is nice you may need to soon rethink that. Sony has made a 3mm thin (yes, that is 3mm not a typo) telivision using the same technology that cellphone screens use. In addition, when it's off it uses no energy at all and when it's on it uses less than a lightbulb. The TV is also HD however, there is one drawback, it is quite expensive. For the only size

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This is a cool hack on a baseball bat that allows someone to trach the speed of the bat. Also check out the automatic PB&J munchies machine.

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This is another eavesdropping device that can be used from hundreds of feet away. It works by using a laser pointed at a window and then having a Cadmium Sulfide Photocell capture the laser reflection. The photocell is then connected to a headphone cord which is connected to your computer. Then, all that you need to do is open a sound recording system that you use on your computer and click

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If you have ever seen an ad for a "turbo charged", super speed pc than you'll think of a much more litteral meaning whenever you see one from now on. Mark Purney constantly saw many of those ads and finaly decided to do something about it, make his own REAL turbocharged pc. While the thing isn't actualy turbo charged it does use a real turbocharger from an old 90's Mitsubishi Eclipse and uses it

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"So we were thinking about how we could have a POV while making it useful. Well since people like to hit up the driving range or the golf course at times, we figured we could just make a POV out of a golf club. At the same time, we can make it kinda useful too. As you can see, the letters will go backwards on the back swing and forwards on the forward swing. Ben Hogan’s “Five Lessons” has a good

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NASA is offering people the oppertunity to submit your name and a brief message to them and they will save it on a CD and ship it into space. The CD will be sent with the Kepler spacecraft which will try to discover more planets similar to Earth. If you would like to submit your name visit their website.

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Criss Hughes from The Internet Patrol has posted a hack that he did that allows him to control his Roomba. The wiimote sends signals to the computer which then sends codes to the Roomba via bluetooth. For the code he used and for more details visit his website.

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Here are some of the specs of this steam rolling monsterEngine: Wilesco D49 Marine Double Piston Steam EngineBoiler: Mamod SE3Fuel: Alcohol or Solid Fuel TabletsChassis & Gearbox: Tamiya 1/16 (Clutch drive, aluminum chassis with metal tracks)RC: 2 Channel FutabaRunning Time: 10-15 min per full tank of water, pressure at about .75 - 1.5 BarsThe gears all together look amazing. It sure is a piece

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"I started playing around with my flatbed scanner to see if I could capture images of stuff around it, by holding the scanner in my hand and rotating it as it scanned. This allowed the focusing lens in the scanner to pick up some of the light from the surroundings." Later on Wandel added a motor (see the picture) to move the camera for him which resulted in a much clearer picture. For pictures

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jetZILLA has mad a DIY rocket engine from some coffee mugs, a strainer, some scrap metal, and J-B Weld. The full set of instructions is too long to post so if you are interested just visit the link.

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If you've ever wanted to eavesdrop on a conversation from up to 1/4 mile away than you can build this simple and cheap FM transmitter. It is suprisingly high quility and defidently worth the little time and cost.PARTS:R1, R4, R6 10K resistorR2 1Meg resistorR3 100K resistorR5 100 ohm resistorR7 1K resistorC1, C2 0.1uf capacitorC3 0.01uf capacitorC4 5 - 30pf variable capacitorC5 4.7pf capacitorQ1,

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While many people will think that this was Photoshoped or edited in some way, it wasn't. The lightbulb is held in the air by an electromagnet that keeps the magnets that are hidden inside of the lightbulb about 2.5 inches from the nearest object and is powered wirelessly by a wireless transmit coil. MORE

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We've all seen some of the gaming system laptops and while some are just flat out ugly, some are actually pretty slick and cool. Below are just some pictures of some of the coolest looking gaming system laptops that we could find out there.This one (above) is personally my favorite since it has the built in Blue-Ray player, a keyboard, and it just looks cool, plus the PS3 has insanely good

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While this DIY water turbine shoe may not be going on sale in stores anytime soon, it is still pretty cool (and after all it is a homemade DIY project... what would you expect). Whenever you step down water is forced through a miniature water turbine which then goes through a tube that goes back into the sole of the shoe. This version of the shoe may not be practical for everyday usage, but if

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ThoughtLab has taken a new Vino scooter and decided to make it into the ultimate geek machine. "The end result was a rolling system capable of long distance war driving, GPS navigation, Skype calls on the road and the ability to record TV programs so you don’t miss Lost because you are lost." Their website has some great instruction on how they did this project and many more pictures.

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This giant clock from SparkFun looks expensive and hard to build however, it is made mostly of styrofoam, fiberboard and green LED strips. The whole thing is controlled by a simple circuit and didn't cost much to build. See the picture below for a better understanding of the basic design.

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Invent Geek has built their very own remote controlled airsoft turret that it made using parts salvaged from an old airsoft gun, some servos, plexiglass, and some hardware. It shoots 1500 rounds per minute and can hold tens of thousands of bb's. Their website has step-by-step instructions but don't plan on making one unless you have about $200.00 to burn. Below you can see the turret in action.

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Guitar Hero rocks, but it really needs some lights to liven up the virtual shredding. What to do? Cram in some LEDs!

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The third Maker Faire was a HUGE success! The estimated turnout was 100,000 people. People from all over the world came to show off and see projects. Watch the video below for some of the faires highlights.

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Circuit Projects has made a sort of pointless yet cool gadget... a cellphone detector. It is a pretty basic project as long as you have some decent soldering skills. However, the detector can only pickup signals and not the actual conversation since the signals are encrypted. Below the picture is the complete list from the websiteR1, R5 : 100K 1/4W ResistorR2, R6 : 1k 1/4W ResistorR3, R7 : 8.2M 1

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Nerd Kits.com has created some hardware to allow your IPhone to connect to an R/C car controller via the Internet which then sends the signals to the RC car. You control the car by moving your finger in different parts of a box that is on the IPhone screen which in turn moves the car in that direction.

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While most people go to stores like Wal-Mart or Party City to buy some commercially made cotton spider webs, you can make your own by making your own web-shooter. Not only is it really cool, but it also makes Hollywood style webs, because it is actually almost the same process that they use in most movies to make webs. For more instructions see the video below and go to the Instructables web page.

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At the Retis Laboratory of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna a team of engineers and DIYer's built a table that automatically tilts to make a ball stay on it even when the ball is pushed or dropped. The team uses a touch screen to locate the position of the ball and two servo motors to adjust the table. See the video below to watch the table in action. See their website for more details.

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A pretty cool Halloween prop. It would be cool to add some servos to make it automated. View the Instructable here.

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Ian has made an LED hard drive clock by using flashing LED's and a spinning CD with a slit in it to create patterns. He uses an LED strip from Super Bright LED's and programed the whole thing himself. The CD spins at 90 RPM which tricks the human eyes into thinking that it isn't flashing which is the reason that we see solid patterns. The thing, as you can hear from the video, is pretty loud, but

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Whoever made this thing sure has an imagination! We think that he has built an evaporation based PC cooling system. As interesting as this sounds it seems to work. He has some not to detailed plans on his website, but it's pretty cool to look at.

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If you think that you have a nice blender you may want to rethink that. Brett decided that he'd try to find a use for his old weed wacker engine from when he was a kid and he sure did! He took the engine and used it to power a blender, but that's not all. He is a huge drag racing fan and created his own miniature starting lights (christmas tree) as well as a nice looking RPM gauge and a cool

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"If you're a fan of things like MythBusters, Make magazine, Burning Man, the do-it-yourself movement and the like, you are probably going to love Prototype This! The basic theme of Prototype This! is that the four hosts, Terry Sandin, Zoz Brooks, Mike North, and Joe Grand take their combined skills and use each episode to conceive of and craft some entirely new design, product, or technology. The

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Dan Wagoner decided to go all out on his first re-born electric guitar. He took apart a sound generator from "Music From Outer Space" and placed the knobs and buttons into the guitars body. You can also see him expressing his creativity and love for DIY projects by looking at the pick guard he made from a real motherboard.(ABOVE)The "Music From Outer Space" sound generator.(BELOW)The finished

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Hack A Flashlight To Power Your...! - video powered by MetacafeA DIY video on how to hack a wind-up flashlight for a power source for any cellphone or PDA. All you need is a wind-up flashlight, a cellphone charger, and a cellphone or PDA.

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The Ultimate Sports Fan Sign!! - video powered by MetacafeAnother video by KipKay. What a great idea!

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Matt Meerian decided that he wanted to try to build a near replica of the intercom the Ferris Bueller used to try to fool his teacher into thinking that he was sick in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Matt searched on EBay for the same intercom that they used in the movie but, he couldn't find it so he just found an old intercom that looked like it had been outside for a while. He uses a

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The new Discovery show Prototype This premiers tomorrow (10/15/08). The Show involves four engineers who try to make a prototype of ridiculously insane ideas. Check out the schedule from the discovery site bellow and for show dates and episodes.MIND CONTROLLED CAR - October 15 @ 10 e/pOur team of inventors attempts to prototype a car that utilizes biofeedback sensors to restrict a cars

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This is a pop-up coffin that the Halloween Prop Master has made of PVC pipe, a screen door closer, some plywood, a $6.00 Walmart mask, an old tux, and a sprinkler valve along with some other non-essential things for an added "scare". Check out the Propmaster's website for more complete instructions, videos, and many other Halloween prop ideas.

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Sawdust Cannon. from Ben Stone on Vimeo.(Above) This is the original sawdust air cannon from Ben Stone. (Below) The Mythbusters tested the great air cannon out to see if it was really possible or if there were some other things in the cannon besides sawdust.I was a little sceptical at first until I saw the Mythbusters confirm the myth... What a great idea!

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BAE Systems, a major hybrid bus manufacturer is thinking about the possibility of using the energy left over that is stored in the bus's batteries as an energy source in the result of an emergancy in their newest generation of buses. The companies current buses are also hybrids but don't use the newest lithium-ion energy storage technology to improve the amount of power generated. The current

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This is an animatronic pumpkin head monster created by Woddy, a self taught animatronics expert. Woddy even made the local news with his creation. You can view his Youtube page for even more videos of his monster before and after it was completed.

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BPExplorer is an online game that allows you to drive a REAL robot all the way over in Australia. You first go to there website and join the waiting list. While you waiting you can view the live webcams of the other robots in action. Then, after a little waiting it's your turn to drive and you have complete control of "your" robot for 4 minutes. You can also extend the 4 minute time limit by

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Here is a picture from Daughtery of his finished animated LED Halloween eyes. He uses an LMDriver Platform and the whole think is driven by an Atmel ATMega169 Micro controller. Check out his website for the video which really shows how cool these things really are because, the picture doesn't do a justice. He also has the code that he used and is selling them on his website so for anyone

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"Blizzrad" has found a way to mod a PS2 controller to work with a PSP. Just visit the link for more information on how to make it.

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This is unlike many other hacks on this website due to the fact that you can't do it at home..... well, unless you have access to a 100,000 amp capacitor bank

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A video by KipKay on how to build your own covert spy sunglasses.

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A video on how to make your own hollywood style shattering glass that you can use to trick your friends or even use for a little effect in your video.

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Here is a video by Brainiac that teaches you how to beat the "yellow box".

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This is an XBox controller that someone made from stripping a regular controller and soldering some old school style controls. They also made the nifty little box that it's in and adds some cool LED's for an even cooler effect.

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Here is a video on how to make an interactive white board using only the Wii and some free software downloads. Besides the cost of the Wii, the controller, and the projector the whole project will only cost a couple bucks. For more information and for links to download the free software just visit Johnny Chung Lee's Web Page. This mod will take a little time but, is a neat little gadget and can

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Since Halloween is coming around I decided to make a post on how to make some realistic fake blood. It is made by two commonly found chemicals and creates a very realistic illusion of being cut by knife. Watch the video to see more details instructions and the effect in action.

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Some people over at ToolMonger.com have modded a real guitar into a guitar hero guitar. They have taken apart the Guitar hero guitar and placed the buttons and the strummer thing into the real guitar. It sound simple but, I'm sure it's a little harder than it looks but, is probably worth the effort for any hardcore Guitar Heroer or DIYer

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100 Ping Pong Ball Smoke Bomb - Watch the best video clips here

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Many people who watch mythbusters are familiar with ballistics gel. For those of you who aren't it is used by the FBI to test bullet wounds to the body since the gel is basically a human analog. Below is a like on Step-by-Step instructions on how to make some homemade ballistics gel for a fraction of the cost.http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Ballistics-Gel

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You can also put it all in a project box to make it look neater and more practical

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A good way to make a mold of a latex halloween mask is to fill it up with Plaster of Paris. Plaster of Paris is used to seal holes in walls but, is also used in hollywood movies to make molds of things. It is very cheap (25 lb for only about $12.00) and can be bought at Home Depot, Lowe's, ect. All of the instructions needed for the mixing of the plaster are available on the box. All that you

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You could spend anywhere from $10.00- $20.00 on a mixer for the end of you electrical drill or, you could just do what I do. All that you need are three grilling skewers. Then, just put them at the end of the drill, point them in different directions, and then mix. This can be really useful for the, "How to Make a Mold from a Halloween Mask" project.

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LED's by the dozenWires and electrical tapeMany types of batteries and lots of themA couple of 2x4's and pieces of plywoodPower Tools; Saws (band saw, power saw, power hand saw, and table milter saws), power drills, and belt sandersVarious motorsSoldering iron and solderElectrical switches and buttonsA good work deskProject boxes

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I have many torx screwdrivers that I will never need and have decided to put them to good use. There is a screw in the Wiimote that requires a triangular screwdriver so I'm just simply going to grind down the edges to make it triangular. I have also needed certain size flat head screwdrivers in the past and have grinded down the torx screwdrivers to make them.

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This is an idea from Graffiti Research Lab and is pretty clever. All it involves is a battery, an LED, some tape, and a small powerful magnet. All that you need to do is connect the battery to the LED with the tape then connect the magnet to the battery with some more tape. Then you just, well, uh, throw. The wide range of places that these could be put is endless; on cars, refrigerators, bridges

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Here are a couple of things that I got out of my old printer.

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I just bought a shocking pen, like those novelty ones that you use to shock people, and had a great thought go through my head. I saw that when you click the button that shocks you it makes a constant spark inside of the pen. That spark would probably be hot enough to light the fuse of a firecracker. So I would cover the metalic part at the end with a peice of rubber so that you won't get shocked

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One fast and simple way to transmit power from a motor to a wheel or object is to move is to simply wrap duct tape (or even better, find a round peice of rubber that will fit around the end of the motor) around the moving part of the motor then attatch the motor to something near to the object that will be turned (such as a wheel) so that the moving end of the motor applies some pressure against

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This is an idea that I haven't found anywhere on the internet so I thought that it would be a good idea to share. All that it involves is simply drilling a hole in the middle of the cap of a diet coke bottle and screwing the cap on directly after the mentos are deposited into the coke.

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This is a cool thing that I saw my neighbors use one. It is AMAZING and can be built for less than $25.00 (It's way worth the money). There are also some videos on Youtube that will help you understand how to build this if this isn't sufficient enough.Assembly:Get all your parts ready for assembly.Cut all your pipes to the correct length using a saw.Glue the end cap holder onto the end combustion

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This is an older technological prank that anyone can do. You will need to get access on someones computer (a coworker, family member, ect.) and they will need to have PowerPoint. When you get on their computer press the "Prnt Scrn" button on their keyboard then open PowerPoint and rightclick and click on "paste" then adjust the picture to fit the powerpoint screen. Next, adjust the settings so

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This is a creative idea that would add a nice touch to your DIY home. The basic princible is to have a garage door opener in your attic to open the regular door of your choice. You would probably need to cut the door across in about 1 1/2 foot sections horizontaly and add some door hinges so that it would resemble a garage door. The door would also need a piece of wood connected to the top so

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This is a fun project that kids (or adults) of any age can do. You will need:1 Alka- Seltzer tabletA film canister with the lidA tiny bit of waterFirst you will need to fill the film canister with about 1/3 water. After that just put the tablet in, put the lid on the film canister, flip the canister upside down, and watch the canister shoot up about 20- 30 feet in the air!

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*NOTE* Check step 1 for abbreviations that will be used throughout the rest of the instructions.1.Go to your local RadioShack and purchase the following: 2 - Cds Cells (Photocells) 1 - 741 Op Amp, 1 buzzer or alarm 1 - 9 volt battery breadboard 1 - 10K potentiometer2.Take the bread board and put the 741 Op Amp in the middle, as shown in the picture below.3. The next steps can be

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