My house is like a little kid wonderland. We have every game console that you can buy on the current market, more games than you could play in a whole weekend, and a computer in just about every room. My kids also get more toys than any sane parent would buy because toys are cool. Despite all the cool stuff around here to play with, my daughter is always busting into my office and asking for a box to play in.
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‘DIY’ Stories
Rolobox ensures kids play with the box more than the toy
DIY pinball machine uses dual LCDs
When I was a kid, we had an old school arcade pinball machine that my dad picked up somewhere. We played that thing all the time and I remember it has huge and crazy noisy when you played. If you want a pinball machine in your house but you want one that takes up less space than the real thing this DIY machine might be perfect for you.
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Qbo open-source robot no longer naked
It's been a while since we've seen movement from the Qbo open-source robot project; last we heard, the tubby little 'bot had been fully spec'd up and the company was hard at work on speech recognition and a custom Ubuntu OS. Now the company has taken delivery of a whole heap of final chassis molds, ready to clad the naked Qbo you can see waiting patiently for its new outfit.
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Geek creates DIY pulse laser pistol that can burn plastic and melt foam
I have played with many of the high-power laser pointers over the years from various makers. The pointers are cool to play with because they can melt plastic and burn things, but they don't they don’t look that cool. A geek has taken it upon himself to make his own pulse laser pistol and this is what those laser pointers should look like.
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EX Trike hits 30km/h with super screwdriver power
If you ever wondered whether screwdrivers could be legitimately scary, try hunching over Nils Ferber's EX Trike and doing 30km/h just inches from the road. A DIY three-wheeler powered by a couple of 18V Bosch electric screwdrivers, the eye-catching trike is designed to look like an exposed skeleton.
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iSound DIY Apple speakers worthy of Jony Ive
Apple doesn't offer standalone desktop speakers, but if they did you can bet they'd look something like this. Brett wanted a 2.1 speaker system to match his 27-inch LED Cinema Display, and finding nothing he approved of commercially, turned to a CNC machine, hand-built crossovers and some beautifully minimalist design for his own DIY creations.
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National Geographic makes real flying house from animated flick Up
If you have kids or just like animation, you have probably seen the flick Up. This movie has an old geezer living in his house, which is now in the middle of the city. The man fills up a bunch of balloons, ties them to the roof and sets off on a flight with a kid to see some adventure.
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DIY ring flash is cheap and ugly
If you like to shoot pics with your digital camera and have wished before that you had a ring flash, but your budget can't support a normal ring flash this is the DIY project for you. A geek has taken fiber optic fibers and built his own ring flash.
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Ben Heck reworks his portable workbench
I'm not the sort that is organized enough to have a portable workbench or even a stationary workbench. I have a bunch of tools crammed in various drawers and bags so it takes about twice as long to do something just because I can’t find my stuff. Modder Ben Heck is the organized type and he has constructed a new portable workbench for the latest episode of his show.
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Geek invents cell phone button pushing machine for weekend job
Apparently, Mok Young Bacq works on the weekends doing some sort of work for an online gaming company that involves needing three mobile phones and being able to call a number of things stop working correctly. The guy likes to travel and the roaming charges on the mobile phones were more than he could stand to pay so he cobbled up a DIY machine to press the buttons from home over the internet.
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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 9 2011
Welcome to this week's edition of the SlashGear Week in Review! It was a busy week in the tech world with some major new products landing this week. The new Hanvon HPad A112 surfaced packing Android Froyo, a 3MP camera and a lot more. The tablet has a 7-inch 800 x 600 screen and is 10.8mm thick.
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Ben Heck crafts speedy can beverage cooler from Peltier modules
Ben Heck is a modder that landed his own show thanks to his modding prowess with all sorts of gadgets. Typically, we see gaming systems and related gear from Heck, but with the hot weather due to hit many areas before you know it Heck has a new gadget perfect for summer heat.
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