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HOW-TO: Make Noise Isolating Headphones

You usually spend more that $100 for a set of noise isolating headphones so that you are not listening to any traffic noise or any other unwanted noise while playing your favorite number on your iPod. But it still will be much better if you can make one using household items and that too under [...]

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The Star Trek Homemade Theater by Gary Reighn

the million-dollar Star Trek-like theaters featured in magazines Reighn first made a blueprint scale model of the room and started working on that. Further he pushed the wall upwards and the floor downwards to look the place spacious. Gary used a high-definition Sony LCD projector with 720p resolution, Polk audio speakers in a 7.1 configuration, [...]

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HOW-TO: Power your MP3 player with a Potato

Now, if you run out of power for your MP3 player don’t worry and go straight to the kitchen. Hmm..Why kitchen? Well, to take a potato to power your MP3 player. Now, you guys don’t believe me. ‘Kipkay’ has demonstrated how to power an Mp3 player from a potato. Since potatoes have phosphoric acid that [...]

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HOW-TO: Make a Wind Turbine

The cost of electricity is ever increasing. Moreover if you are living in a remote area where you don’t find any electricity providers then you plunge into darkness. The developer of the masterpiece is also a resident of a remote area. But unlike others he is having the skills to make some electricity for himself. [...]

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HOW-TO: Make an Internet controlled Security Robot

Here is a way to protect your house from Strangers using no more than a toy car. This toy car is actually a Robot that can be controlled and viewed over the internet. The planned version will have a network camera as the payload. The car has the following devices attached to it: � Linksys [...]

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HOW-TO: Make a solar panel

It is simple, it is useful and moreover, it is cheaper. Solar panel is something very handy to have if you live in a sunny area. You can always use it to provide some juice for any small device and that too with no extra cost for power. The procedure to make one is very [...]

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HOW-TO: Overclock Core 2 Motherboards

Whenever you go to choose a motherboard the things that are lurking the mind are Form Factor, features, stability performance and price. But some of us need more from the already fast processor. We want to overclock it. Here is a way to overclock a CPU and not just an ordinary CPU but the one [...]

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How-To: Make a 100psi Hand-Held Self Contained Air Cannon

Owning a gun has always been a fantasy for me. The government laws have always forbidden me from getting what I want. But now I can make a gun on my own. Though this doesn’t look as interesting as those high ends AK-47 and AK-57 but I always believe that something is always better than [...]

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How-To: Make a PC Board with a Dremel

You usually use a Dremel for cleaning, drilling metals and scrapping off the dust from various devices. This one gives you a good way to use your dremel to fashion a PC board. All you need is: – A dremel – Copper Plate – LED – A couple of transistors – A resistor – Some [...]

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How-To: Enable high-resolution (640×480) video with Skype for Mac

Would you like to get a hold of high-resolution calls with Skype for Mac yourself? Jaanus Kase on Skype Garage has posted some instructions for enabling higher quality 640×480 resolution video calls. All you need to do is to upgrade to the latest Skype release (2.5.0.85 or later for mac and 3.0.0.216 for PC), quit [...]

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