You are looking at the first step of making a Light Bulb Aquarium. You need to gut a normal light bulb taking care to keep all of your fingers attached. Have a look at the full article to see the remainder of the steps to install this into a lamp stand to create a cool conversation piece. Thanks for the tip Andrew. "The first test with a filled bulb
Most business cards are boring, this Augmented Reality Business Card is anything but boring! I think it even tops the Planetary Gear Business Card, only issue is that you need a computer to see how cool it is. Via: Hack a Day "Inspired by this guy, I just got a fresh batch of business cards from moo.com. There’s not really enough space on a business card to explain yourself
Are you are tired of the basic router boxes that you stash in your computer room and forget about? These Goldsmiths University Future Routers are about to make an end to that type of thinking. If these routers become common place we will see our routers become part of our everyday furniture. Thanks Rachel. "This router is essentially a twenty-four hour clock divided into half hourly segments. As a
We have seen lots of interesting thumb drives such as the Hard Drive thumb drive array, and the VHS Thumb Drive. Now thanks to CF14 Industries we have a Vacuum Tube Thumb Drive. It takes a bit of trial and error to build one so I would have a few tubes on hand before you try to build your own.
DIY Clocks are great since there is an inherent motion element. Most of the clocks that we use are very boring but that doesn’t have to be the case, have a look at this Arch Ball Clock for example. It tells the time in a very interesting way. Code and plans are available so that you can make your own, you could also purchase a kit from Nuts and
Csaba Bleuer has completed version 2 of his spinning LED display. Here is what version 1 of the spinning LED display looked like. "Improvements are: The rotation speed is 25/s instead of 7/s like in the earlier version, thanks to a cooling fan motor, which can give about 10W power and enough torque at 1800rpm. Also the power supplying is changed for the rotating part. It gets negative through
Ben Heck has just finished his latest hack which is version 5 of the XBox 360 Laptop. This time it looks even more polished than the previous versions. Unfortunately the laptop is spoken for so if you want one of these special units you may have to shell out some big bucks. Via: Techeblog “A few months ago I announced that I would be building a few more Xbox
