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The Littlest Arduino
DIY Build a matchstick-sized Freeduino kit and add a 5V battery for microcontroller power in a tight space Do you need a microcontroller for a project (maybe, ahem, our Mood Cube project?) but case...
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A One-Button Game System
DIY Simplify your gaming experience with a homemade mini console Here's a radical idea: Put down that PSP for a while. Give your tired fingers a break from its complex configurations of buttons and...
View ArticleHow To Make Ferrofluid
DIY Ferrofluids are made up of tiny magnetic fragments of iron suspended in oil (often kerosene) with a surfactant to prevent clumping (usually oleic acid). The fluid is… Ferrofluids are made up of...
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Making Alcohol Making Easy
DIY A collection of our favorite automated brewing and winemaking setups The last time I tried making beer, we were up until 3AM standing in a kitchen that looked like tornado had struck. My last...
View ArticleWhat Comes After Arduino?
DIY Arduino is a great microncontroller package for entry-level electronics tinkerers, but once you've got your sea legs, cheaper DIY microcontrollers used to build anything from grow-lights to...
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Hacking the 21st-Century Auto
Cars A crowdsourced, street-legal rally racer; Neil Young's electric Lincoln Continental; tinkering with an Audi R8's computer for crazy horsepower boosts--and much more Today's cars may seem too...
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Marshall's Plans: Getting Started With Microcontroller Projects
DIY If you’re looking to gin up a project that can interface with the world--say, a device that tells the weather using sensors--you’re probably going to need a microcontroller,… If you’re looking to...
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DIY Solution to Annoying TV Celebs Mutes Your TV Whenever Charlie Sheen Is...
DIY It's become a refrain in this age of 24-hour news stations, media-starved talking heads, and hundreds of channels of stuff you don't want to watch. "Why won't they just shut… It's become a refrain...
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How to create custom shortcut keys with Arduino
DIY You're still pressing buttons, but like, not as many. If you spend a lot of time at your computer, there are a variety of tasks you perform over and over. One option for making your computer-bound...
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Getting started with Arduino
DIY You just need to take the first step. Once you know how to use Arduino boards, you can make custom shortcut keys for your computer, change your thermostat, or even control a walking robot. But to...
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