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The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments
The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments was published in the late 60s, as a collection of science experiments that children could do at home. While it was an excellent teaching tool, the authors of the book failed to realize that many of the listed experiments were insanely volatile and potentially life threatening. For example, namby-pamby [...]
Build Your Own XBOX 360 Laptop
GiY favorite Ben Heck is at it again. After blowing our collective minds with his portable PS2 and NES Micro, Ben has returned with his latest epic project: An Xbox 360 Laptop. Why would you need a keyboard on your completely customized Xbox 360? Um, because it’s a laptop. C’mon, it’s right there in the [...]
Build Your Own Flat Panel Solar Cell
Everyone is looking for a way to introduce some of the green ethic into their lives, correct? But dangit, if those giant solar panels aren’t EXPENSIVE. No more. NetScienceNews has figured out how YOU can make small, inexpensive solar cells right in your own kitchen, using only some copper sheeting, a hot plate, and a [...]
Build Your Own Refillable Compressed Air Duster
Scott had a problem. He was sick and tired of spending perfectly good money on cans of compressed air to clean his computer equipment. Air is free, and once you have the can, it should be easy to refill, right? In this build log, with parts list and instructions, Scott details how he made his [...]
Join the GiY Folding@Home Team!
Remember the SETI@HOME distributed computing project we were all running circa 2000? You know, the one that was supposedly using your PC’s spare clock cycles to search for intelligent life? This is the same thing, only real and with a purpose. Stanford’s Folding@Home project uses the computer processing time you’re not using to analyze “protein [...]
Build Your Own Game Boy Advance Robot
Got an old Game Boy Advance kicking around? Meet the Xport Robot Controller. This system turns the Game Boy Advance and standard LEGO components into an advanced robot development system. With standards in place for LEGO robot development, budding robot enthusiasts have an easy way to bring their creations to life. The XRC supports [...]
AntWorks: Ant Farms Get Awesome
As a kid, you fell into one of two camps. Either you bought an ant farm, sent away for your ants, and were fascinated as they toiled, dug tunnels, and built colonies…or you were fascinated as the ants tried to get their bearings after you shook the whole thing up and destroyed weeks of their [...]
Build Your Own Networked Cufflinks
When you’re wearing a suit, it’s sometimes tough to make the entire room know that you are officially More Tech Than They Are. However, Mark of Geek Technique found a way with these cufflinks. Pressed for time, and saddled with a French-cuffed shirt, Mark did just what you would expect a GiYer would do…he whipped [...]
Build Your Own NES Controller Cell Phone
Ugh, we’ve all been seen with a godawful cell phone stuck to our ear in a public place. Well, Sam of DIYHappy wasn’t having it anymore. So he gutted an old NES controller, and crammed a Nokia 3200 (selected for its size and ease of disassembly) into it. The first prototype is alittle rough…for example, [...]
Build Your Own PC Remote Control
Who wouldn’t want a killer PC remote control, to use with a Media Center PC or otherwise? Granted, you could buy one of the pricey Creative Labs models, but [Odin84gk] went a slightly different way. He built his own version out of an old XBOX DVD playback kit and some freely available, clever scripting, with [...]
