Hacking a Toaster Oven into a reflow Oven

Surface mounted Electronics are becoming the more and more popular. They are small, cheap and are the preferred method used in most electronics. For the average electronic hobbyist, they also are a challenge to work with. Most the time you need a magnifying glass and tweezers just …

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DrawBot – Computer Controlled Robotic Arm

Created as a graduate project by Eric Newman. The DrawBot was created to emulate the emulate the movement of the mouse. The DrawBot is controlled via a HID USB interface, using a Microchips PIC 18F4550 microprocessor to control everything. By using the HID interface the DrawBot can …

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DIY Hot Tub Project

J. Kelly McCoy’s Homemade hot tub project has every thing that I look for in a project for this site. A true home built project that not to many people would have even attempted. J. Kelly started off with some parts from eBay and a dream. He took a huge plastic livestock tub …

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The Self-Assembling Chair Robot

Conceived by Max Dean and built by Raffaello D’Andrea, the creators of “The Table: Childhood,” another robotic art installation, the robot chair can fall apart spontaneously, and then drag itself across the floor and reassemble. This is a truly freaky video.

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Mentos + Diet Coke = Soda Explosion

The perfect mindless experiment for when you are board. Drop a pack of mentos in a diet two liter bottle. Instant fun! There are many videos of this freakish experiment all over the web. The highest i have seen is 18ft.

Complete HOW-TO Myth TV

Complete Myth TV guide. This site take you step by step through the process of setting up a Myth TV box. The website is I Make Projects, they are trying to build a new project every two weeks. Looks like a promising site to me.

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Unique Homebuilt Coffee Rosters

Talk about being dedicated to roasting coffee. These DIY take it to a whole new level. The contraptions range from rotisserie grills to converted toaster ovens. This page is full of home made rosters from all over the world.

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Real Life Transformer

Most people who grew up in the 80’s or 90’s know that transformers ruled. This is probably the best real robot version that i have seen. Here is a short clip of a transforming robot in Japan. Video was found on youtube.com.

Blue LED car radio mod

Before After

Tired of staring at those old incandescent lights in your factory car stereo. A blog article written by Jason at yorkspace.com take you through the process of adding super bright leds to your factory head unit. Once the factory face plate is removed, the incandescent bulbs can be replaced …

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Automatic bar project

Think about it, you place a glass under the spout select a drink and “BAM”, a perfectly mixed drink. This project allows a user to select a mixed drink from a keypad, the bar then properly pours the right drink out a spout into a glass. The project uses pumps to distribute …

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