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• This Super Computer is Made of Lego and Raspberry Pi

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  We’ve seen DIY supercomputers before: take a few motherboards, give them all the same processor, give them all the same amount of RAM and couple them all together via LAN. It has been a cheap and effective way for educational institutions (and enthusiasts) to jump into supercomputing. The Iridus-Pi continues in the same vein, using a cluster of 64 Raspberry Pi computers and Lego. University of Southampton Professor Simon Cox has done an outstanding job [...]

   

• The Best Zelda-inspired Bedroom You Will See All Day

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  The Zelda room that you see in the image above and in the gallery below was the work of someone who goes by the name of Jessica, who created it for a child who would seem to be called Micah. I love the way that the theme carries across each of the walls and represents so many of the key points of the game: Death Mountain, the Kokiri village, a Deku tree, Lon Lon Ranch [...]

   

• How to Dismantle a Nexus 7, Then Put it Back Together Again [Video]

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  If you have ever contemplated getting up close and personal with the business side of your Nexus 7 and voiding its warranty, then you really owe it to yourself to check out this long but highly instructive video from the folks at DirectFix. We have seen teardowns of the Nexus 7 before, most notably on iFixit, but so much more information comes out in a well-shot video. The interior of the device is very cleanly [...]

   

• Exploding Watermelons With the Power of Your Mind

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  Who would have thought that an EEG headset, a compressed air cannon and a watermelon could have been so much fun? The Mind over Melon setup that you see in the video below makes use of a Star Wars Force Trainer that has been hacked to control the aforementioned CO2 cannon, which is jammed into the base of a watermelon – to produce explosive results. If you want to build your own, head over to [...]

   

• The Best Glowing, Radioactive Hulk Case Mod You Will See All Day

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  This computer case is the work of one Derrick Johnson, who proudly displayed his case at the ‘bring your own computer’ event at Quakecon 2012. I love the way he literally thought outside the box – that probably won’t help the dust situation, but if he stays on top of things, then it might offer some cooling benefits. [Source]

   

• Ammo Box Speaker Project [DIY]

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  If you are looking for a fun way to spend an afternoon and have access to an ammo box and a few power tools, then you might want to give this ammo box speaker project a try. The total cost of the build is around $50. While it is a fairly complicated project, it is not overly technical and the Instructable walks you through each step. To cut a long story short, it is a [...]

   

• HR Giger Geiger Counter [DIY]

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  This HR Giger Geiger counter is the work of one Steve D from Madartlab. His inspiration was a Prometheus-related tweet from someone who goes by the name of Phil: “If I ever go to an alien planet, I’m bringing a Giger counter. #ThingsILearnedFomSciFIMovies” Thus he headed of his house, picked up a 1:2 scale human skeleton and blended it together with a Mightohm Geiger Counter v 1.0. After some fairly significant alteration and a bit [...]

   

• How to Make a Macro Lens For Your iPhone Using a Cheap Laser Pointer

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  If you are looking for a good way to take macro shots with your iPhone on the cheap, you could try photographer Zaheer Mohiuddin’s trick: use the lens from a cheap laser pointer. The lens can simply be taped directly over the top of the iPhone’s camera lens – this leaves a very shallow depth-of-field. According to PetaPixel, your iPhone will need to be less than an inch from your subject. At any rate, laser [...]

   

• This Could Be The Laser Cutter/Engraver You are Looking For

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  If you are seriously into your making then you have probably thought, or at least fantasized, about getting a laser cutter at least once or twice. The problem is that they have always been expensive, prohibitively so – but prices are coming down and just like 3D printers, they are starting to get to a point where they are within reach. It is capable of cutting through 1/4″ Plexiglass and wood, and can engrave a [...]

   

• Guy Makes Awesome Backyard PVC Rollercoaster For Daughter

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  If you ever wanted to feel like you suck at parenting, check out what this guy did: he turned a bunch of PVC pipes, some pressure treated lumber and some concrete into a roller coaster with a 12-foot drop. It certainly beats the half-assed DIY planetarium that only worked when it was a foot from the wall that my son got for his last birthday. [Source]

   

• The Best Mechanical Skeeball Machine Built From K’nex You Will See All Day

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  The Skeeball Machine that you see above and in the gallery and video below is the work of Instructables user Shadowman39. The coin operated machine is completely mechanical and even goes so far as keeping track of score. The project, which took over a year to build, is destined to be destroyed in the not too distant future – he should probably try his luck selling it on eBay first as there is sure to [...]

   

• Lego Wheelchair is Functional, Slow and Really Expensive

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  Here is a do-it-yourself project that is a bit of a tease. The 44-pound wheelchair was built by Simon Burfield out of Lego. The build included “six Lego Mindstorms NXTs, 12 Mindstorms motors, 12 Lego Mindstorms touch sensors… and a whole load of Lego Technic.” Awesome, right? Unfortunately, it is a bit of a tease. Here’s why: the maximum capacity is around 198-lb, so that effectively rules it out for the kinds of people that [...]