Saturday, October 22, 2011 - 10:06am
If you want to feel like a Greek God this winter, how about a pair of these homemade Taser gloves that turn you into a 21st century Zeus, hurling bolts of electricity at your enemies?
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Monday, June 20, 2011 - 1:48pm
If you can put together a Lego playset, you can build your own PC. You plug your SATA cables in where the SATA cables go, and connect the power. And you're done. For the true computer fanatic there's another option, though: Jack Eisenmann, who just recently graduated high school, put this thing together from scratch.
Friday, May 6, 2011 - 1:41am
We've seen lots of people who have built pretty cool custom PCs, but usually they're just putting off the shelf parts in an artsy-fartsy homemade case. That wasn't enough of a challenge for Steve Chamberlin, who was determined to build the CPU for his computer from scratch.
Friday, December 3, 2010 - 7:25pm
Have you ever wondered what you might look like in one of those TSA airport scanner images? A hacker called Jeri Ellsworth was curious, so she built her own version of a TSA scanner by modifying a satellite dish antenna horn.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 7:38am
Kiel Johnson likes to make models of classic cameras from thick cardboard, but what's really cool is that his cameras actually work.
Monday, July 26, 2010 - 7:18pm
I love people who do wild scientific experiments in their homes, and anyone who creates a glass-cutting laser in their bedroom belongs on that list.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 4:02am
Well, golly, I can finally rip out my eyeballs and toss 'em aside, because I doubt I'll ever see anything this great ever again. As I'm sure you've already surmised, it's a TIE fighter "costume." Really, it's all in the...
Monday, November 23, 2009 - 11:13am
For Let's Make Robot's robo-wiz "Isotope," anything he sees has the potential to be a 'bot. Example: pondering a simple ladybug magnet on his refrigerator, he decided it'd be better as a larger, motorized magnetic crawler exploring the surface...
Friday, September 4, 2009 - 10:14am
34-year-old Tao Xiangli is an amateur inventor whose efforts aren't looking all that amateur. The Chinese man has built himself his very own sub all on his own, spending two years and 30,000 yuan ($4,385) on the project. It's driven...
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 3:22am
The MakerBot CupCake CNC 3D printer caught my eye from all the way across the room, and MakerBot founder Bre Pettis didn't seem all that surprised that his seemingly cobbled-together DIY Frankenmachine made from wood, acrylic plastic, PCB and messy...
