If you are bored and looking for a quick DIY project to kill an hour or two, you could try making yourself one of these chapstick flashlights. It looks easy enough, though you might find it a little fiddly considering the size.

Microsoft just announced at E3 that they’ll be giving the Xbox 360 a total software overhaul this fall. “When people turn on their Xbox 360s this fall, they’ll get an entirely new interface and Dashboard, an entirely new Xbox through the magic of software,” said John Schappert, head of Live services. New features will include [...]

With its minute keyboard, the Eee PC can be tough to use in the dark. Imagine, then, if yours had a backlit keyboard. The folks at Popsci have come up with — and explained — a way to add one of your own. And get this: you can do it in 3 hours for just [...]

On the surface a DIY Electric Unicycle sounds like a dangerous, dangerous idea. Rodger Cleye’s design, however, looks pretty tame. For one thing, it does not go terribly fast, and for another, it has gyro-stabilization to help keep you on and a safety lanyard to shut it down in case you fall off.

The Meaning of Time is a brilliant clock concept perfect for all those crafty people out there. It supplies the mechanism to keep time, you supply the hour and minute hands. You can use just about anything as long as it fits thru the holes. I myself am partial to a barrel of monkeys. Perhaps [...]

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Almost every solar-powered car we’ve seen has been incredibly goofy-looking, but we’d bet we could learn to overlook external appearances if we had a sunshine whip to call our own — especially if we had to build it ourselves as well. That’s the promise behind Art Haines’ SUNN solar car kit, which’ll let you build [...]

It’s awfully difficult to build a flying robot with spy gear built in, so why not just implant that paraphernalia in a living bug? Scientists are making progress on the idea of a cyborg butterfly, with a Georgia Tech professor figuring out how to make longer-living SpyBot insects by implanting various micro sensors that can [...]

We’re no stranger to maid-inspired casemods and PC accessories, but this Maid PC computer case? It’s the perfect PC case for the kind of guy who wants his PC to look like the belly button to upper thigh area of a maid, but doesn’t want to spend the time and effort it takes to build [...]

There are many people who love vintage, be it cars, furniture, or even their old IBMs. Come rain or snow they just can’t get the nerve to throw out their once precious little machines to scrap. So if your one of those vintage lovers here’s an interesting way to convert your old IBM XT to [...]

Reuse a plastic bottle to make a stable yet tasteful holder of any 2 types of things, e.g., pens and paperclips, nults and bolts. The bottle in the middle is gatorade.

Here is a PC case mod made of Lego bricks. It certainly looks sweet and will spice up your living space too with all the colorful Lego bricks. Furthermore, take a closer look, the case is equipped with wheels for mobility. And it seems to come with a remote control that you can direct it [...]

This project shows you how to make a music light out of inflated condoms and LEDs wired up to the sound out of your computer.
Magnum Condom LED Music Light
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A big Keanu “whoa!” for this 400mm binoscope (binocular telescope) being built by an enterprising Frenchman. He’s spent three years on it so far. It’s not done, but it is operational. The engineering on this is gorgeous. The carriage system is almost as cool as the scope itself! There’s only one other video on YouTube, [...]

Contributed by Windell on Sunday, February 17 2008, in EMSL Projects

I took some close-up pictures of LEDs to get a look at what’s inside. These are just standard T-1 3/4 (5 mm) package superbright LEDs with clear lenses, one of the most common types, and [...]

These LED people blink in each other’s arms.
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Here’s a basic digital telescope (better suited to observing the neighbors than neighboring planets) built from an old webcam and a telephoto lens.