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Bicycle Wheel LED Video Displays
Monkeylectric has just released the newest version of their bicycle mounted video displays. Using four strips of RGB LEDs on each wheel, you can display any video or image on your bike wheels while...
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Make a DIY Fiber Optic Star Ceiling
Fiber optics are just plain amazing. They carry data at ridiculous speeds and have a whole assortment of lighting possibilities too. There are a few main types of fiber optics including end glow and...
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Make a Stunning 8x8x8 LED Cube
Here’s an awesome tutorial on how to build your own stunning 8x8x8 LED cube (that’s 512 blue LEDs!). Each LED can be controlled individually using special software and integrated circuits. This...
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Top 5 Custom LED Beer Pong Tables
Beer Pong…The sport of choice of college students. While we would never, ever support over consumption of alcohol, we must admire the engineering and creativity of these outstanding illuminated...
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DIY Lighting: Fantastic Labware LED Lamps
Ah… the warm ambient lighting of retro chemistry lab equipment…Designer Benjamin Huber created these exceptional custom lights out of hand-blown glass. While I’m sure they cost an arm and leg, you...
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3 Neato DIY Christmas Projects
Well, Christmas is here and everyone is sitting around, munching chocolates, watching old films and thinking of the Christmas dinner they’ll devour tonight. Undoubtedly, some of our dedicated...
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Amazing Ice Sculptures and LED Buildings
Christmas might be over but that doesn’t mean winter is! In the northeast of China in a cold city named Harbin, a frozen river named the Songhua is being cut up and made into something wonderful....
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How to: Avatar-Style Fiber Optic Pandora Jungle
By now, you’ve probably seen the bioluminescent jungles of Pandora in the movie Avatar. Throughout the movie, I kept thinking of how to re-create some of the environment with the help of EL wire,...
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Write in Midair with a Simple LED POV Display
Learn how to fabricate your own LED “wave” display to write messages in midair. When you move the device through the air, you’ll see a word flash through the blue LEDs. When you wave the device,...
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Intel Recreates Musical 3D Animation in Real Life
You may recall an incredible 3D animated video from years ago from Animusic called “Pipe Dream” which featured a musical ensamble of robotics. Intel decided to recreate the performance for real in...
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Incredible RGB LED Cube Tutorial
We’ve seen our fair share of LED light cubes before, but what makes this one different is its incredibly detailed, step-by-step tutorial. The creator of this light show previously made a one color...
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Large Pond + Zipline + Wakeboard = Awesome!
Here’s a dream come true for all you wakeboarding fans: ride all day without a boat, fumes, or gasoline. These two guys used a zipline attached to towers set at each side of a large private pond to...
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Superb Mechanical Seven-Segment Display
Sure, 7-segment displays are common electronic components we see everyday. This, however, is an entirely mechanical version which morphs each minute as the time changes. To accomplish this, it uses...
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DIY Doorbell Video Security System
Ever wonder who comes to your door during the day while you’re gone? Here’s a simple DIY project to answer that question. Every time someone rings your doorbell, you’ll receive a text message...
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How to Make Giant, Illuminated Balloon Art
Here’s a superb way to get a message across: This giant Super Mario “sculpture” is made up of hundreds of LED Floaties (Helium + LEDs + Balloons). Of course, the idea can be altered to fit any...
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DIY Google Street View System
Now you can have your very own copy of Google’s revolutionary camera system! Use it to make your own street view videos from a car or you can even mount it on a backpack and take it hiking with you....
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Incredible Transforming Desk from the 1700′s
This incredible transforming desk literally has hidden passages inside its hidden passages. At first glance, it looks like a beautiful, ornate piece of furniture. But in reality, many of its shiny...
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Hexacopter + Hexapod = An Eerie Robotics Masterpiece
Hexacopter: Similar to a quadracopter, except with 6 blades instead of four. Hexapod: A 6-legged robot which walks like a spider. Why not combine the two? These makers decided to combine the them...
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How to: Integrate Google’s Nexus 7 into your Car Dashboard
Let’s face it, most automotive manufacturers (besides Telsa Motors) are horrible at designing user friendly dashboards. It’s 2013, yet our dashboards are still filled with dozens of non-intuitive...
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Hack a NES Zapper into a Burning Laser Gun
Ray guns, lasers, and lightsabers have been part of the sci-fi world for decades. We’ve featured a few neat steampunk ray guns in the past, but this NES zapper gun which was fitted with a...
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