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• The Large Hadron Collider Scaled Down in Lego

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  Sasha Melhase, a physicist at Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen put together this 1:50 scale model of the Large Hadron Collider in order to promote it to students. The total build time was 81 hours, 48 of which was spent in planning. That’s fast for a project of that size. He had some help from his wife and a few students, who helped him sort the 9,500 bricks and put them all [...]

   

• Will Rockwell’s Exquisitely Steampunkified External Hard Drive Enclosure is Totally Worth the Astronomical Price Tag

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  This is, without a doubt, the coolest steampunk-flavored external hard disk enclosure you will see today – in fact, I am going to go out on a limb here and say it is going to be the best one you will have seen all year. The exterior of the case features a drivewheel and shaft that makes it look as though the whole contraption is actually running on steam. For obvious reasons, that would not [...]

   

• TARDIS DVD bookcase is actually smaller than it appears

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  The bookcase that you see above is the work of UK-based model maker msmuse101, with a little help from her father. Looking at closed, you could be forgiven for thinking that it opens into a walk-in closet, or something of the sort… looks can be deceiving, the TARDIS exterior is merely a facade and the doors open to reveal eight shelves of DVDs. A cool idea, not just because it looks awesome, but also because [...]

   

• How to Build Your Own “Hobbit House” For Under $5000

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  Simon Dale created this awesome-looking environmentally sustainable home with his father-in-law (who is a builder) over the space of about four months for less than $5000. He explained some of his motivations for the project: Being your own have-a-go architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass-produced box designed for maximum profit and the convenience [...]

   

• How to Build Your Own Espresso Maker

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  This is, without a doubt, the coolest Instructable I have seen in a long time. User Urant takes us through the ins and outs of building a working espresso maker with a built in alcohol stove out of relatively inexpensive parts. The build itself is intricate, but not overly complicated and can be accomplished with some copper plumbing parts, a soldering iron, and a syringe – for a build cost of approximately $30. We are [...]

   

• Making an Animated GIF the Old Fashioned Way

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  Ah animated GIFs, they never get old – well actually they do, but some of them are pretty cool. While they can be slapped together on a computer in a matter of minutes, animated GIFs are created using the same principals that were used to create early animations. The GIF player demonstrates this point by using a 19th century mechanical animation device, the phenakistoscope to create a brief animation by mounting a series of images [...]

   

• TARDIS Refrigerator, it Was Bound to Happen Sooner or Later

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  Anything vaguely box-like and rectangular tends to do well with the TARDIS treatment, so it was only a matter of time before someone pimped their refrigerator to make it look like it travels through time and space. It looks well done, and refrigerators are some boring-looking appliances, so this is a good improvement. [Neatorama]

   

• All-in-one Flamethrower Looks The Right Kind of Unsafe

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  This flamethrower is the work of Instructables user PDRWLSN, who seemed to prefer it as a bear and moose repelling device. It is constructed from “various bits of copper tubing, plywood, some laser-cut acrylic parts, butane, and the pulse-ignitor from his gas grill to start the fire burning.” It looks like fun, dangerous fun, granted – but fun all the same. If you want to make your own and are aware of the potential consequences [...]

   

• Give Your Walls a Star Wars Makeover [Wallpaper]

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  What’s the matter – house not nerdy enough for you? Some Star Wars wallpaper could fix that. From Super7: Super7 is proud to announce the inaugural release of Star Wars x Super7 Collection: The Imperial Forces Wallpaper! Featuring textured portraits of Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and members of the Empire, this hand-screened, flocked, designer wallpaper is an artistic way to decorate your office, collectibles room, or space station. The wallpaper itself is kinda pricey, but [...]

   

• The Most Badass-looking Wrist-mounted Crossbow You Will See All Day

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  The Wrist Bow that you see above is the work of do-it-yourself weapon maker Patrick Priebe. The video, that Priebe was kind enough to post, shows his wrist-mounted crossbow damaging random stuff from a range of nine feet. Not too far, granted, but it does a really good job of putting the bolts where the laser sight says that they should go. The batteries and switch for the laser are hidden in the palm of [...]

   

• RC Lawn Zombie is the Scariest Halloween Prop You Will See All Day [DIY]

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  Seeing stuff likes this always makes me wish for a better set of DIY skills. If you don’t feel like giving away any free candy this Halloween then you could stick a radio controlled legless zombie on your lawn and let it rip – it won’t just scare the kids. If you are feeling up to the challenge, check out the build page – it looks more time consuming than difficult. [Geekologie]

   

• The World’s Largest Pumpkin, Now With More Zombies

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  If you can think of a more awesome way to celebrate a 1,818.5-pound pumpkin than turning it into a giant zombie sculpture – I’d like to hear it. The Canadian-grown pumpkin was put to the knife by Ray Villafane and the results speak for themselves. Want to see it? Head over to the New York Botanical Garden where it will be on show until the end of the month.