DIY USB Popcorn Maker
Metacafe have posted this video of this funky USB device thats will pop your corn to perfection :). The DIY USB popcorn maker uses a minimum of parts, and “high intensity heater lights” driven only by the power of your PC USB port… fantastic
Source via Metacafe via Crunchgear
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DIY Flying Machine Kit
Check out this lifting vehicle which will be available as Do-It-Yourself kit for $50,000. The ILV uses a counter-rotating rotor lifting system and gets its power from two 105 horsepower, Hirth F-30, 2 cycle, 4 cylinder engines with dual ignition and forced air cooling. Engine power comes through two 2.64:1 engine gearboxes. If one of the engines fails, the other one can still sustain the flight. The ILV can soar over trees and houses requiring pilot skills equal only to riding a motor bike. Control of the ILV is obtained by simply shifting your body weight. The kit currently under development in the United States is dubbed PAM 200.
Via Bornrich
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Strange Gadgets - The Acorn MP3 Player
This has to be one the strangest MP3 players I have seen so far.
The Acorn MP3 player from Evergreen, is shaped like an Acorn and encased in wood, its controls are at the top of the Acorn and you plug your headphones in the bottom.
It comes with 1GB of storage and plays MP3, WMA and OGG files, and measures 28mm in diameter and is 35mm tall.
No word on pricing or availability as yet.
via Akihabara News
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VIA Launches the ARTiGO Pico-ITX DIY Builder Kit
Via has launched the VIA ARTiGO, a DIY builder kit for enthusiats.
The kit contains a VIA EPIA PX10000 Pico-ITX motherboard, chassis, power adapter and everything needed to get you started.
It weighs just 520g and measures a 15cm x 11cm x 4cm high, it has 4 USB ports, build in high def audio, can take up to 1GB of RA, Ethernet, and support for 2.5 inch hard drives.
Check out this video of one being built.
It will go on sale in the US on December the 14th for $300 (about £150) and will run Linux and Windows.
via FareastGizmos and Technovoyance
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Useful Gadgets - The Nail Cushion - saves you from DIY disasters
Check out the Nail Cushion from designer Arthur Se.
It is designed to hold a nail in place, whilst you hammer it in, so instead of hitting your fingers you hit the nail
This is a great gadget if your DIY is as good as mine, no more sore fingers.
via Yanko Design
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Extend your wireless router range for 5 cents - Video
Check out this cool diy mod to extend the range of your wireless router.
This is a clever idea, and a cheap one as well, I think I may have to try it out, now where did I put my soldering gun.
Viddler via CrunchGear
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Design Your Own MP3 Player - With This Custom Kit
Check out this DIY MP3 player kit called the Music Box
It features 256MB of memory, plays MP3 and WMA files, and comes with a USB plug and headphones.
The case is made of paper, and it comes flat packed so you can put it together.
So basically you can use any case you want, and customize it for your very own self designed MP3 player.
The kit is available now from GeekStuff4U for $68.55 (about £35).Via AkihabaraNews
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iBook Server - What To Do With Your Broken iBook
The guys over at Chaos.com have an ingenious solution for your broken iBook, the iBook Server.
Here is the guide from Chaos.com
‘A little while back i was given an iBook with a faulty screen as in not working at all.
Having a hard time just throwing it away i was looking for a way to put it to use though it was a fairly old 500mhz G3 ibook.
Things being as they where i thought the only thing to do was using it as a server though it would mean quite a makeover, but thus the fun.
First of all we need to take the ibook apart to remove screen, Optical drive and battery. All of these aren’t necessary since we are building a server, “but what about restoring of OSX, don’t we need the hard-drive for that?” Actually you don’t since you can do it just as well in target mode from another hard-drive. Another thing we need to keep in mind is that we really want to keep the footprint of the ibook as small as possible.
Before taking an iBook apart i strongly recommend visiting ifixit’s guide on how to disassemble an iBook so nothing unintentionally gets broken.
I take absolutely no responsibility for any destroyed iBook, making this is your own responsibility !!!
Carefully remove the Power circuit board and without braking the cables for it. The next thing to do is cutting the alu-frame as shown with the red markings. (se picture below) Be very careful!!! The frame breaks easily.
Remove the modem-port, this is done easily just by gently puling of the wires from the logic-board and there after the modem port itself. Now we have room for the power-plug.
The next step is to remove the power-plug from the power circuit board and afterwards solder 5 extension wires between the two, these should be about 20cm in length. This is done because there isn’t room fore the power circuit board when the incasing is fully assembled. Mount the power-plug with some tape with glue on both sides.
The last thing we need to do before assembly is to take of the old power button and replace it with a new one that would be easier to build in, it is easily soldered on the same wires as the old one. Drill a small hole that fit the diameter, of the new power button, in to the alu-frame and mount it. The result should look as the picture above.
Cut the lower case so it fits the footprint of the alu-frame and mount it.
Use some tape with glue on both sides to hold the Power circuit board on to the Lower case and some duck-tape for the power-cords. The end result should look as the picture above.
Cut the upper case so it fit the footprint of the alu-frame and the lower case. Cut a whole for the Power switch in the corner, mount the upper case and use some tape to hold the wires in place on the upper case. The result should look as below.
The next step is to pimp the server up a bit so it doesn’t just look like half an ibook.
I went to my nearest second book pusher and found a hardback that fitted my chopped iBook in thickness and footprint. I brought it home and gutted it, leaving only the cover for my project. To hold the iBook together with the cardboard-back use two angled pieces of plastic about 15cm long and glue each of them at the inside of the cardboard-back so they’ll work as a rest for the iBook to stand on, as shown on the image below.
First i thought about wrapping the book using the remaining Leopard plush i had from my OSX Leopard ready hard-drive project but it didn’t seem right since OSX Leopard won’t run on a G3 processor, besides a plush leopard HDD is pimp, but a server also, would make me look a as if I was playing for the wrong team…
So eventually i decided to use a matted black plastic film to wrap it in and decorate it with one of my many Apple stickers, from the countless Apple products I’w bought and some letter stickers from my local bookstore.
Now remains a way to ensure that the half iBook doesn’t end up on the floor when handling the server… For that i’d simply use velcro-tape at the bottom of the half iBook and the rest-plates, making it quite simple to disassemble the server but also holding the half iBook in place when handled.
Some thoughts about the project.:
I did have some concern that there would be a heat problem after the modding, but this wasn’t the case, since I’w had it running for some time now with no problems at all.
I didn’t have the time for finding a solution for build in Airport, that’ll have to come later. Meanwhile there’s a lot of info about the subject on if you google it.
Oh god! Oh why! Even build it when a Mac mini has just about the same volume and ain’t all that expensive? Well. First of all I already had the iBook so making the project costed me a fraction of the price of a new Mac mini. Second: A Mac mini wouldn’t fit so neatly on my bookshelf. Third: Because I’m able to do so and love the challenge.’
What an ingenious gadget, and it looks pretty good too.
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Bored of your PS3 or Xbox 360 - Build Your Own games Console
Check out this games console kit now you can build your own.
The Hydra Games Console Kit, available for $199(about £100) from ThinkGeek, comes with everything you need to build your own 8-bit gaming console.
You will need a bit of DIY knowledge and some basic programming skills to get your console up and running.
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