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Floppy Disks Laptop Desk

February 19th, 2009

There are lots of things you can make with floppy disks. One of them will be a laptop desk. Take a look at this one, it is made of 82 pieces of floppy disk, a cardboard base, popsicle sticks, glue and need a lot of time. More pictures after the break. Read more…

Space Invader Cookies

February 9th, 2009

Flickr member SeattleJonman has posted up some picture tutorial on how to make the pixel cookies. They have made the space invader cookies last month, courtesy of the Play-Doh fun factory. They said the next project will be Mario cookies. More pictures after the break. Read more…

DIY: iPhone Stand

January 22nd, 2009

With five pencils and four rubber bands, you can build a stand for your iPhone. If you have a slippery surface, you can use eraser to stop the leg from slipping. Go get some Staedtler pencil today. More pictures after the break. Read more…

MP3 Grenade

January 21st, 2009

At the inside of this hand grenade store a 1GB Sansa MP3 player. It’s a nice one to hook on your belt, showing it off, but I’m just afraid if people or policeman mistaken it as the real grenade, that will be an opportunity to enter the jail in certain countries. This lethal-looking portable player is actually a DIY project. Read more…

Cardboard iPhone Dock

November 25th, 2008

iPhone 3G does not come with a dock like the 1st gen iPhone, so your will need to spend extra 29 bucks to get an Apple iPhone 3G Dock. Geeky Gadget has come out with a DIY iPhone dock made of cardboard. There’s a printable pdf available at their site. Video after the break. Read more…

DIY: X-men Papercraft

October 28th, 2008

These paper toys are cute, they are the character from Marvel Comic, but more on X-men. I’m not good at folding these, but maybe I can try them someday. Anyway, you can download them at harlancore for free, print it out yourself and start folding one. From the left, we got the Spiderman, Cyclops, Wolverine, Magneto and Professor X, all sticking their tongues out :P There are more characters such as Storm, Beast etc. Read more…

Car stereo fake-out

July 10th, 2008

You fixed an Alpine, Sony, Pioneer or whatever branded player in your car and you start worry when you park outside your house or the mall that someone may break in and steal it away. It happens often, that’s why some people choose to use CD changer. There are many ways to prevent it from stolen, first ~ the new player now most comes with detachable panel, make a good habit of taking it out before you leave your car. Second way ~ in case you don’t have a detachable panel maybe like the double-din type, that case you can fixed a little bit inner that cover it with the original cover (if you still keep it) when you leave your car. Also, for those who have amp always fixed it at a hidden place especially car with visible car boot like van. At last, fixed a fake cassette player faceplate like the above, you can get the instructions of making at Instructables.

DIY: Google Images Search

July 6th, 2008

There’s a way to build your own Google Image search. Take a look at this example, with the city of Stockholm. Screen shot at Google at cut it out. Isn’t that creative? One more shot after the break. Read more…

Anti-Paparazzi Glasses

July 2nd, 2008

Wearing a sunglasses doesn’t help to cover your face from paparazzi. But this does help, the anti-paparazzi glasses. It has two infrared LEDs fixed on the frames and the cables run to the earpieces and they were powered by two button batteries. When you put on these glasses, they press against the batteries making those two lights glow. It is undetected to human eye but bright enough to distort your face for security / paparazzi cameras. Video embed not available, click here to watch the video.

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DIY Guitar Picks

June 25th, 2008

Do you collect those useless phone cards, credit cards, gift card or whatever plastic? Do throw them away, they can be use to make guitar picks. Other materials like cardboard, “Handi Snacks” stick, CD, Toshiba laptop, and plastic packaging can be use too. Just use a marker pen and draw the pick shape on the card and card it with scissor, piece of cake. Read more…