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This Wearable Shoe Phone Will Transform You Into James Bond!

Posted on February 17, 2009 | Leave a comment

You’re wondering that you can be as cool and calm as James Bond? Would you want to feel the like as the secret agent? If you did, then this wearable shoe phone can satisfy your desire!

To be honest, it wasn’t a new idea, as it has been discovered since long time ago. However, have you ever try to do it yourself? You might think it’s an “Mission Impossible” to get this project done, but the truth is it fairly easy to build it!

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All you have to do is preparing the following things:

  1. A pair of shoes with wooden heels (You’ve to make sure that it’s big enough to fit a box 77x43x17 mm, the size of the Panasonic GD55 cell phone)
  2. Dremel
  3. Kitchen Knife and fork
  4. Strong glue
  5. A tiny Hex screwdriver
  6. A powerful drill
  7. A jigsaw

First of all, you have to attach the rubber base of the heel by some nails and strong glue. Next, mark the area in the wooden heel that needs to be cut out and make sure the phones fits in the hole perfectly. Then, putting the cell phone into the bottom of shoe and you’re done with it.

Now, you can become a secret agent and get your mission done whenever you want! [Go on]

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DIY a Realtime Web Based Power Charting By Yourself!

Posted on January 26, 2009 | Leave a comment

Since the recession has becoming even worse in this year, it’s time to cut off the unnecessary spending in our daily life! You might think that it’s easier said than done? Well, if you have the wills to do it, you can surely carry out the saving plan very well.

Do you know that nearly 50% of the U.S households have been reported that they have an excessive high electrical consumption? The biggest cause of this problem is the lacking of electrical conservation knowledge.

One of the most significant ways out for the following matter is by tracking and understanding power usage real-time. You can do it by turning off and unplug everything in the house, then went outside and counted how long it takes the power meter’s wheel to make one complete revolution/circulation.

After it, you can turn on all the household appliances one at a time and re-timed a power meter wheel revolution. By this way, you’ll be able to convert the time differences into watts and get to know the power consumption of every appliance better!

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This realtime web based power charting is quite an easy task, where you can get it done less than one day!

Caution: Remember do not touch anything inside the breaker box during the project, or you might get electric shock and toast like BBQ!

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The Affordable Electric Spinning Wheel

Posted on January 21, 2009 | Leave a comment

What’s your hobby? Some people enjoy the outdoor extreme sports, while some might prefer the indoor games. If you have interested on turning the raw sheep’s wool into yarn, by using the spinning wheel, then this electric spinning wheel is the perfect tool for you!

Talking about the spinning wheel, all the traditional spinning wheels have these two main parts: a bobbin and a flyer. The bobbin is holding the spun yarn, while the flyer is twisting the yarn onto the bobbin.

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For your information, the big drive wheel on non-electric spinning wheels is to gaining the spinning rate of the flyer. The quicker the big wheel turnaround, then the faster it will spin.

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The electric spinning wheel is having a smaller size than the traditional spinning wheels, as it equipped with a small electric motor and it spins fast enough than the big drive wheel!

Some of the best parts about this electric spinning wheel are:

  1. It is much smaller than the traditional spinning wheels,

  2. It is portable (You can take it and do the work anywhere you want!),

  3. The building cost is between $50 to $150, where it’s extremely cheaper than those that being sold at retail stores!

It’s time to start the spinning work…

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Catch Whatever You Want With This Funky Net Gun!

Posted on January 20, 2009 | Leave a comment

Your life was a little bit dull, and you’re looking for some excitement here? How about develop a funky Net Gun that can be used to catch anything you want?

You must be wondered, “Why should I build this Net Gun, and what’s the purpose of building it?” Well, good question! If you judged it from the appearance, this Net Gun is not a very realistic gadget, but it actually a very powerful tool.

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Life is full with many unpredictable events, and you didn’t know what will happen to you in the next second! With this Net Gun, you can use it as the fast catcher, if you found that there’s a thief sneaking into your house in the middle of night…

For your information, this Net Gun is capable of firing a 90 square foot net, from the distance of 15 to 25 feet by using 80-100 psi of compressed air. The net is strong and reusable, thus you don’t need to worry that your prey (thief!?) will destroy the net and run off from it! The launcher section is modular, where it can be easily removed if you want to modify it in the future. [source]

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Give This Special Edge-Lit Holiday Cards to Your Loved Ones!

Posted on December 24, 2008 | Leave a comment

The Christmas is approaching by and have you prepared for it yet? For those that prefer to send the traditional X’mas greeting cards, instead of the online E-cards, you should spare a few hours for this sensational Edge-Lit Holiday Cards.

If your friend always teasing you because of sending the old-fashioned analog X’mas Cards, this is the right time for you to blow them away with this DIY Edge-lit holiday cards.

Although creating a glowing holiday card may not be the most economical for a mailing list of hundreds of people, but it’s one of a kind creation that remarkably cool and cheap DIY holiday creation.

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By simple taking an advantage of the properties of etched glass, you’ll be able to design greeting cards with glowing emblems on them! Well, you might need some sort of things to help you off in this project, such as LEDs, scraps of acrylic (etched glass), cardstock, black electrical tape, coin cell batteries and so on…

Lastly, if you think that the LEDs and holiday cards are the perfect match made in heaven, and then what are you waiting for? Let kick-start the project right away!

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How you can make air muscle

Posted on December 19, 2008 | 3 Comments

Air muscles are accessible commercially from Shadow Robotics in the U.K, in different sizes. For investigational reason it is pretty effortless to build your individual air muscle in whatever magnitude you entail.

The internal tube is prepared from spongy silicone tubing, around ¼” OD and 1/8″ ID. Go to a limited pet shop that advertises aquarium supplies. Acquire a minute amount of PVC apparent tubing. Make a choice of a few aquarium air regulators and pairings too.

A lot of electronic dispensers trade the polyester braided interlock sheath. The plaited sheath is worn as a lithe conduit for electrical cabling. Purchase a small extent (6 feet) of 3/8″ diameter.

Terminate the resources obtain with a few 3/8″ long 10-24 twists and a minute extent of 24 gauge stimulated wire obtainable at a limited hardware hoard.

Engrave a 4-inch piece of silicon tubing. Place in the 10-24 screw in one part of the tube. Add an aquarium air coupling in the other part of the tube.

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Slice a 7 inch piece of 3/8″ braided lattice sleeve. To avoid the ends of the sheath from conflicting and approaching apart we char the ends by means of a counterpart or candle flame. The thought at this time is to just sear the ends of the polyester sheath, its simple to depart too remote and soften too much of the sheath. In that case sever another bit and initiate over. Continue reading →

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The Sophisticated DIY Home Automation System

Posted on December 8, 2008 | Leave a comment

Are you tired of turning on and off the switches in your house? Would you want to create a high tech home automation system that interfaces a PC and microcontroller? Today’s the right time for you to DIY a home automation system!

With this smart home automation system, you can easily control the home thermostat; turn on a sprinkler from anywhere you want, and it can react with the motion detector floodlight automatically etc., this home automation is definitely a very simple tool, where you can compiled plenty of resources for you to create a fully automatic home!

The best thing about this home automation system is it will help you to practice the energy conservation. This means more money can be saved and less carbon dioxide to be emitted into the Earth!

For this DIY project, you must apply a 386DX with 4MB RAM 40MB HD. Beside that, you’ll need gcc to compile the program and you’re going to need the telnetd or sshd if necessary!

There are more benefits of using the home automation system. If you haven’t try it yet, then you should take the opportunity and test it out!

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The Environment Friendly Home-built Wind Turbine

Posted on November 25, 2008 | 6 Comments

The Global warming is becoming worse and worse everyday and we all have the responsibility to prevent it from getting worst! Many scientists have undergoing numerous types of research to experiment and invent the best eco-green energy generating methods.

According to the survey, the wind energy is one of the most eco-friendly and clean energy after the solar energy. The only major drawback of this wind energy is it doesn’t generate any electricity, if the wind stopped blowing to the wind turbine!

Well, you must think that you’ll need many components for building this wind turbine. Nah, you can start the project with a generator, three blades, a mounting, a tower, some batteries and an electronic control system.

If you’re not familiar with the generator, then you should use the ready made surplus permanent magnet DC motors as generator than build your own generators! Or, if you have a better choice with generator, then you can go for it. Remember, a great generator is supposed to have high DC voltage, low rpms and high current! Let’s take an example, a motor rated for 360 rpm at 30 volts will produce at least 12+V compare with the motor rated at 7200rpm at 24 volts.

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How To Reuse Your Old LCD TV Lamp?

Posted on September 23, 2008 | Leave a comment

You owned a very large and stylish LCD television in your home and you’re very proud of it. However, what will you do, if you found that the LCD Television have a smashed screen? Well, I think you will mostly calling the company or even sent it to the local electronic appliances shop to get it fixed! The matter is you will soon realize that the LCD panel itself makes up most of the cost of the entire television and it’s not worth getting fixed at all. As a result, you will probably throw it in storage and buy a new LCD TV…

Instead of dumping it away, why don’t you harvest the useful parts and make it into something useful here? Hmm, what about a LCD light table, which you can put your negatives underneath and check on it?

Not enough yet? OK, how about a built-in speaker remote-controlled light table?

You have to disassemble the entire thing, took apart the LCD panel assembly, and then try to separate the LCD image panel from the backlight as fast as you could.

Remember to watch out for the LCD panel, as it’s kind of fragile than you thought here! [source]

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This Little DIY RC Helicopter Is Really Outstanding!

Posted on September 6, 2008 | 1 Comment

Have you ever played a Controllable Helicopter before? Do you know that control the flying helicopter is a fun and exhilarating experience? If you haven’t tried it before, would you interesting building a RC helicopter for your own?

Normally, you can find two types of micro-helicopters in the RC market. In this matter, you should choose the one that can fly inside the living room without any further hassle. The reason why you should choose the electric controllable helicopter because these types of helicopters are very cleans and don’t even have the terrible noise at all!

To be honest, it is not too hard to develop your own electric helicopter. Firstly, you must make sure that you’re paying attention to the main body, as it’s plays an important role in the body balancing! Beside that, you should adjust the tail rotor parts from a Concept EP can be converted into a collective pitch rotor head of the helicopter! Remember that the tail rotor hub must be lighter than the main body, or it will lose it stability!

Hopefully, you will enjoy this fun electric helicopter development project and it’s time to soar the helicopter in the blue sky! [read]

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