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Build a DIY $1000 Fusion Reactor in Your Basement

Most college freshmen fill their dorm rooms with clothes, books, and electronics. Thiago Olson also brought his fusion reactor. But Vanderbilt University drew the line: No do-it-yourself reactors in the dorm! Instead, his device was housed in a nearby laboratory.Read More

Easy to build LED light box dances to your music

Here's a really simple electronics project that plugs into your computer or music source, and the LEDs react in sync to your music.Read More

Wireless car starter project starts car using a cell phone

Fed up with his frigid car, Aaron installed a remote starter to warm the car up before he got to it. This didn’t help at his work because his car was parked several hundred feet from his office - outside the range of his OEM starter. Aaron decided to make his starter work with GSM so he could start his car with a phone call from any distance.Read More

Woodworking project shows how a combination lock works

In terms of neat mechanical things to build out of wood, Matthias Wandel figured a single dial sequential combination lock would be a great project to make. It's relatively simple and shows people how a combination lock actually works. The video (below) shows the steps.Read More

One of the oldest tricks in the photography book revisited

Brian Auer

A double exposure is a relatively simple photography trick that can be used to achieve all sorts of fun effects - ghosts, fake twins, mirror images or something as simple as superimposing a backdrop of trees into a romantic scene.Read More

We're always hearing about it being best to make off-season purchases, so the folks at Lifehacker has compiled a timeline and lots of best-time-to-buy suggestions to help plan a more frugal 2010.

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Weaving is an art that assumes the materials used are flexible. The trick to weaving glass is to warp a set of sticks that are pre-formed into a series of curves that fit together to create figure-eight shapes. Once the warp is shaped, it is a simple matter to slip the weft threads into place by inserting them into the holes of the figure eights from the side.Read More

This geeky watch uses an Arduino microcontroller

This odd watch has two concentric circles of LEDs for minutes and hours. A vertical row of four LEDs adds in the additional resolution needed to get 60 minutes on the watch face.Read More

Jason von Nieda put together this beautiful vacuum tube clock built around a Russian IV-18 nixie tube. He cites Adafruit's Ice Tube Clock for inspiration and credits John Pfeiffer for the enclosure design.

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Man machines a 17.5 caliber cannon

The precision machined cannon features a 2017 aluminum chassis and stainless steel barrel that is 13.5" long, about 2 inches in diameter, and fires a 17.5mm ball using black powder.Read More