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DIY electric motorbike conversion using scrap materials

How about going for electric motorbike conversion using scrap material? Sounds cool! Marquee has done the same by converting a Honda rebel 250 into a clean calm bike in about a week. Many of the required parts were taken from the old rebel rolling chassis including wheels, tires, brakes, and other missing parts. After that, [...]

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Make your own heart rate monitoring device using an Atmel Atmega8 microcontroller

Imagine if you have your own heart beat monitoring device at your home. Construction is very simple – all you need is a little knowledge of electronics, Atmel Atmega8 microcontroller and a RS 232 interface to setup a connection between your PC and the device is designed. This block diagram shows how to connect various [...]

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HOW-TO: Make a Bluetooth web controlled tank

The Global Access Remote Exploration Vehicle (G.A.R.E.V.) is a device designed for searching remote environments using any standard web browser over the internet. It has two servos and a camera mounted on the top to enable pan and tilt viewing of the surrounding environment along with a temperature sensor to offer basic environmental information. The [...]

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DIY V8 Engine replicas made from paper!

You may not believe this but these ‘V8 Engines’ have been fabricated from Paper Mache. They are small and miniature to look at but are a complete replica of their originals. They even have movable engine part attachments so as to give the exact feel of the real V8 engine. Seems to be a different [...]

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How-To: Fix Dead Pixels On Your LCD Screen

Are you looking for some neat solution to fix LCD screens dead pixels and reduce the screen burn-in? You need to have two free software solutions dubbed UDPixel and the JScreenFix. All you need to do is to move flash zone with cursor and pick color by right clicking on the flash area. Developed by [...]

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HOW-TO: Make an ambilight-like system with any TV

Here is a way to add an ambilight effect to your old TV. This will not only add to great effects but will also allow you to boast of a great creation. All you need for this is nothing more than some cheap LED Strips from IKEA. Just attach these strips to the back panel [...]

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Home made wooden Laptop

How many of you are in need of a laptop that has an extremely low resolution and a slow processor…? I guess only a few are interested and that too for a summer project. Check out this system made from almost a scratch. It consists of a handful of chips are some hardware that you [...]

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HOW-TO: Create 360-degree photography

Would you like to shell out lots of bucks to learn professional 360-degree photography or would like to make on own your own for free? Carl at warehouse.carlh.com explains a neat procedure of getting 360 rotation animations. He says: I’ve always been a fan of the 360 degree photographs of products. Purchasing the equipment would [...]

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Bigger the better: make your own monster quartz halogen bike light

Necessity is the mother of invention. Adverse situations often provide inspiration to people and a key to improving upon the day-to-day utilities is to subject them to not so usual circumstances. Enough with the crap, here is a guide to improving upon the one thing that bothers you most about your bike. I’m referring to [...]

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Make your own colorful and cheap Lego Zapper

Do you love collecting Lego firearms for long time before? Then you can also make your own Wii Zapper by yourself like Mrklaw, a member of the NeoGAF forums has created his own Wii Zapper with the use of blocks of Lego. Lego Technic pieces were used to create a trigger. He copied the basic [...]

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