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Watch This Happy, Happy Man Refurbish An Old Apple II
This charming man, Todd Harrison, bought a used Apple II and some drives from Ebay and did what any self-respecting geek would do: he gave them the attention and respect they deserved, cleaning all the...
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The Singularity Is Near: NYU Student Builds A Robot That Builds Burritos
Hey, Internet. Come over here. You sitting down? Cool. So anyway, there’s this thing I need to tell you about. No no. Over here. This tab. Stay right here. So this guy at NYU made something special....
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The Knut Is A Web-Enabled Monitor For Everything
If you’re headed away this summer, leave the Knut behind to keep and eye on things. This small, Wi-Fi-capable widget can transmit various measurements to your iPhone anywhere in the world. The Knut is...
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Now Everyone Can Make Marketing Videos: PowToon Launches DIY Presentation Tool
We’re so over PowerPoint presentations, right? Well, that’s the common refrain, at least. And we haven’t even been super-enthused about the new-fangled PowerPoint alternatives in a while – not since...
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KitApps Launches A Mobile App “Wizard” To Simplify DIY App Development
It’s a familiar scenario for small business owners: You want your business to have a mobile presence, ideally native on Android and iOS, but you don’t want to pay a developer an armload to build that...
View ArticleWhen The Boss Is Gone, Rock Out With This Automatic Party Desk
Some folks we met in Charlotte had a mission: they wanted to win a contest (sponsored by Red Bull) for the coolest Arduino project in the land. I think they may have nailed it. The project, built by...
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This DIY Lego Wheelchair Can Carry (Small) Passengers
Burf aka Simon Burfield is an iOS programmer and Lego experimenter who tries to take building blocks to the next level. Interestingly, if this wild rideable Lego wheelchair is any indication, he’s...
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Webs.com Adds A Facebook Cover Image Designer To Its DIY Page Creation Tool,...
Webs.com, a DIY website creation service that helps non-technical, non-designers build good-looking websites on the fly, is introducing a new product today to complement its other offerings: a tool for...
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LittleBits Is A Nearly Perfect Electronics Discovery Kit
I’ve been hearing about LittleBits, an electronics kit for hobbyists and kids, for quite a while but I never got a chance to play with them until recently. The company recently announced a funding...
View ArticleDIY Sugru Fixbot Robotic Arm
Robotic arms haven’t been the same since Tomy stopped making the Armatron but that doesn’t mean you have to live your life without a robotic helpmate. The Fixbot Robotic hand is a DIY project that...
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Hacker Uses A Kinect To Help His Mom Email After A Stroke
Here’s a heartwarming story for a Hackathon Saturday: Chad Ruble’s mother suffers from aphasia due to a stroke. She hasn’t been able to use a keyboard for years because she is simply unable to...
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Gift Guide: Solder: Time LED Watch Kit
Short Version Geek parents will get a huge kick out of the Solder:Time watch kit from Spikenzie Labs. It’s a cute kit that contains all the parts you need to make a large, readable LED watch. Just grab...
View ArticleGift Guide: DIY Marble Machine Kit
Keeping with my theme of DIY projects as gifts, I present to you this little treat, a laser-cut marble machine that comes to us via merry old England. While the mechanism is cool – you turn a little...
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Body Hacks: Building An Open-Source, Theremin-Like Vibrator
For your postprandial pleasure I present the an open-source vibrator that you (or your partner) can play like a theremin. The story of how it came to be is pretty amazing and involves FCC chip...
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I’m Not Afraid Of 3D-Printed Guns
As someone who has been following the 3D printing revolution very closely, I’m convinced it will bring about a new industrial revolution. What that means – and where it will put us at the end of the...
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New Arduino Esplora Provides A Ready-For-Gaming, Customizable, Open Source...
Arduino unveiled a new preassembled board today called the Esplora, which includes a variety of sensors and controls already assembled, allowing aspiring game programmers to quickly and easily get up...
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DIY: Make Your Own Solar-Powered Raspberry Pi FTP Server
In the pantheon of geek projects there are few things as potent as the creation of an FTP server. Rather than doing cool stuff like serving up web pages or handling phone calls, an FTP server just sits...
View ArticleHey! Your Hexapod Is In My Hexcopter!
When we look back on the events that led up to the rise of our Robotic Overlords, I think this will be a day that will live in infamy. Some foolish mortals at Mad Lab Industries have, for their own...
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DIY Mobile Website Creator bMobilized Adds Another $2.5 Million In Series A...
bMobilized, a New York-based mobile web startup offering small businesses a way to convert their existing websites into HTML5, mobile-optimized sites, has raised an additional $2.5 million in Series A...
View ArticleThis DIY Mini-Tardis Is Bigger On The Inside
If you’ve watched and enjoyed the program known as “The Good Doctor Who” in which an alien of some sort who flies around with his little, knobby robotic buddy (I’m not entirely clear on the details),...
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