Tech For Life
How to Make a Bytelight with RAM Sticks
If you have a store of useless RAM sticks, here’s something you can do with it, a high-tech mood light, called The Bytelight. You will need 3 rows of 21, 256K 30 pin SIMMS”, 12″ x 12″ plexiglass or lexan, 1.5-inch thick plywood, sheet metal, a light fixure, sheet metal, and screws. And now, watch the video after the jump.
[via Techeblog]
Tags: bytelight, DIY, how-to, lexan, lighting, plexiglass, plywood, project, ram, screws, sheet metal, simms
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Eco – Twinkle Light
November 16, 2009 - 11:30 pm
Tags: eco light, light, lighting, natural power
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Kenan Wang has designed a concept called Eco – Twinkle Light which is the mixture of the pencil sharpener and crank up battery. By sharpening a pencil or rotating the handle you will get the power recharged, hit the big button at the top and you will get the light on. More pictures after the [...]
Cat Powered Auto Feeder
October 18, 2009 - 2:31 am
Tags: auto feeder, cat, cat feeder, cat food, DIY
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Instructables is going to show you how to make a Cat Powered Auto Feeder. Let your cat grab some food by itself. You will need knife, scissors, drill for making holes and materials include clamp type paper clip, rubber bands, golf ball, wire (bread) tie, round food container, 2 liters pop bottle (not shown) and [...]
A Word Clock
September 28, 2009 - 2:35 pm
Tags: clock, DIY, time, word clock
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A word clock is a cool DIY clock by drj113 that tell the time using words.
if you are interested to make one, click here for full steps of making a Word Clock.
Embrace Plywood Brief By John Green
September 26, 2009 - 6:09 pm
Tags: embrace, furniture, john green, plywood, table
Posted in Product Design, architecture | No comments
The original brief was set to design a modern take on the Isokon Penguin Donkey, that was within 10% of the originals dimensions. The outcome was “embrace” an award winning piece of furniture, designed to store modern media such as DVD’s, CD’s and Magazines. More pictures after the jump
This smart piece of furniture naturally [...]
DIY CD Drive Rocks Baby To Sleep
August 28, 2009 - 11:10 pm
Tags: baby, baby rocker, cd rom, DIY, Funny, linux, pc, ubuntu
Posted in DIY, Funny | No comments
What an idea!! A Linux user wrote a script on his pc to set the cd tray opens and closes to rocks his baby to sleep. Video after the jump.
[via Boingboing.net]
DIY Fireball
August 15, 2009 - 1:09 am
Tags: DIY, fireball, how-to, howto, tutorial
Posted in Cool vids, DIY | No comments
A cool video showing how to make a fireballs that you can hold without burning your skin off. All you need to prepare are 100% cotton cloth, scissors, lighter fuel, cotton string, and a needle.Video after the jump.
DIY Paper Record Player
August 6, 2009 - 12:40 am
Tags: DIY, how-to, music, paper record player
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You only need a piece of construction paper, a needle and some tape to make your own Paper Record Player. Video after the jump
[via Hackedgadgets]
Man Climbs Building Using DIY Vacuum Gloves
July 29, 2009 - 12:11 am
Tags: bang goes the theory, BBC, DIY, gloves, jem stansfield, scince, vacuum, vacuum gloves
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Jem Stansfield invented his own vacuum gloves that made from ordinary vacuum cleaner for BBC science show “Bang Goes the Theory” and climbed up BBC bulding (120ft) for the demonstration. Video after the jump.
[via Likecool.com]
The Rubber Band Gun By Andy Mangold
June 24, 2009 - 12:26 am
Tags: Design, DIY, Guns, Handmade, packaging, Rubber Bands, Typography, Weapons, wood
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The Rubber Bandit: the rubber band gun for the lady or gentleman that knows better than to grow up. Handcrafted out of curly maple and bloodwood, The Rubber Bandit comes complete with interchangeable barrels, allowing the bearer to fine tune the amount of damage he or she inflicts. View more pictures
Package Reads:
“DANGER! This rubber [...]
DIY: The Simple Sequencer
June 23, 2009 - 1:58 am
Tags: DIY, music, pitch, randy sarafan, remix, sequencer, song
Posted in DIY, Sound, music | No comments
Now you can make your own remix with this Simple Sequencer. Randy Sarafan will shows us how to make this simple sequencer. It does the same thing over and over again in an eight note sequence. You can adjust the frequency of the note, the duration of the note and the pause between notes.
Consisting [...]
February 17, 2010 - 4:23 pm
Great idea!
How about a THE MOTHERBOARD LIGHT BOX? I am sure there are plenty of old 8088s, 386s, 486s boards laying around !
I think you can make a lamp shade from them !! – lol
good show ! – regards!