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DIY: iPhone Video Stabilization

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:47:14 +0000

iPhone 4 shoots one of the best 720p Videos among cellphones, but seriously lacks on stabilization. So, If you’re shooting from iPhone 4, you can easily end-up making a shaky video that is good fo nothing. Don’t worry, cheap DIY stabilizer is the solution, thanks to Watson.

DIY iPhone Video Stabilizer

With few parts from the local hardware store, you can create your own stabilizer under $30.

The video below provides step by step instructions:

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How to Build Wireless Electricity [DIY]

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:21:06 +0000

One of the most innovative Technology of this year demonstrated to public was Wireless Power i.e. transmitting power without use of any type of wires.

This concept has already taken flight and is being used in commercial applications TED Talks and also in a Sony prototype. Imagine the world where all the wires just go off, all the clutter will be cleared. If you have no idea of this, watch this video first.
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Make Micro SIM from standard SIM for iPhone 4, iPad

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:04:01 +0000

Hardly few days are left for the launch of iPhone 4, the market is heating up.

The unlocker community in U.S. as well as gadget freeks worldwide are questioning if its possible to use Standard SIM with iPhone 4 or even with iPad? To be honest, nothing has changed from SIM to Micro SIM except for truncating the redundant area, which makes it possible to use your standard SIM in place of MicroSim with some basic tricks of the scissor.

As it turns out traditional SIMs measure 15 x 25mm and have that angled corner. The new micro-SIM is officially 12 x 15mm. That’s effectively .. Read Further »

Build Apple Tablet PC [iTablet]

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:03:18 +0000

Not impressed with iPad’s capabilites? and you didn’t Like JooJoo Tablet aswell? Well, you are not alone: Though iPad will succeed, Millions of fans are complaining. So what is the way out?

Andrew Davidson is one of those hobbyists modders who couldn’t wait on Apple “to release the killer app for e-readers”. So what he did was started working on building a Tablet that does everything a Macbook does. To keep the project cost effective, he took off an old iBook with 500Mhz processor and built a Tablet over it.

It was dissembled and fabricated into a new enclosure. Though the choice was smart but it has limitations of poor hardware config.

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DIY: Glowing Apple Logo Laptop Mod [Hackintosh]

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:06:00 +0000

Every one loves Apple’s gadgets but not all of them have one. That’s why building a Hackintosh is such a popular mod among the enthusiasts.

Last year when I first built my Hackintosh Laptop, I seriously missed one thing: The Bright White Glowing Apple Logo on the back of my HP Notebook. I looked around for a proper DIY guide to do it, there was one but it eventually went down.

Luckily, I took an offline copy of it, while I was trying to build it. So here I present the exclusive tutorial of Creating Glowing Apple Logo Mod for your Notebook/Netbook.

Original work by EdsJunk from the MSI Wind .. Read Further »

iPhone RFID Readers

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:53:43 +0000

RFIDs are popular and even though it’s easy to hack them, they are widely used in almost every Big store and in Passports. For those whoa re new to RFID: Radio Frequency Identification is a low-power, low-cost wireless technology that enables identification of objects (having tags) from a certain distance. The primary purpose could be to monitor various products in a store and prevent misplacing, and even thefts.

So why Build your own RFID reader? Well you can use it for 1,000 reasons. Say you want to track the stuff you often forget like your keychain, your gadgets (say iPod) or TV remote, tracking all of them could be snap with RFID.

Whatever is your case, here is a quick .. Read Further »
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DIY Keyboard Backlit Illumination

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:50:31 +0000

Not everyone owns those high-end Notebooks/ Desktop keyboard that have inbuilt back-light illumination to keep you going when it’s dark. Working on keyboards is common when you are allowing someone to sleep while you work of when it’s dark around. With a number of confusing tutorials around, you need one tutorial that highlight it all.

Let’s begin with different methods you can employ yourself to achieve a dark-proof fully illuminated keyboard.

Method 1: A simple LED (ThinkPad style)

This is the easiest mod you can do for your keyboard. All you need is some basic tools to drill a hole near your screen’s top and connect it to a stripped power source from within and the result is worth.

Tutorial

Method 2: Standing/Hanging LEDs for your Desktop PC Keyboard

Another cheap and easy one. All you need is some LEDs and solder iron to do the neat trick: Tutorial

Method 3: Optical Fibre LED illuminated Keyboard

This is the cleanest and hence the toughest one. You need some basic Optical fibres cut along right places and placed inside your keyboard so as to illuminate the keyboard from inside.

Apart from that few resistors, adhesive, soldering kit.

Tutorial

Method 4: Keyboard BackLight Layer

This would be the cleanest of all the methods yet cost-effective. You can get it done under $15. To get started you need EL Backlight 3- x 5-inch ($5), Flash EL Wire, Velcro Hook & Loop Fastener, Double-sided tape.

In fact the tutorial is dedicated to Netbooks, check it out.

Tutorial

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Google Your Home with Roomba Bot

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:35:40 +0000

Google does pretty good job at crawling the web, fast enough to accommodate Billions of webpages, everyday. For the offline PC searches, Google Desktop finds every needle in the haystack.

But what about your Home? Ever wished that you could index your home and find stuff you misplaced within seconds?

The unofficial project called “Google Bot” or “Gåågle Bot“ to the rescue. The Swedish author claims that it is a “home crawler” which is nothing but a vacuum roomba hacked to have on-board tiny webserver and a camera. Vauum Roomba crawls around doing .. Read Further »
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WebCam as Security Camera [DIY]

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:07:24 +0000

Surveillance systems can relieve your worries, but, they can also relieve your wallet. Why fall for expensive equipment when you can build your own at Fraction of cost ?

You can use a cheap Web Cam as a good Security camera that does almost everything that professional equipment does. I’ve been trying few softwares that would serve the purpose by securing my roof and the main door. Here is the softwares I’ve finally shortlisted and thought you would be interested in.

Vitamin D: This is an exceptional product that has an exceptionally intelligent motion-detection algorithms. This software does it all right by differentiating between different kinds of motions.

It lets you customize “the size” of the objects that would trigger events .. Read Further »
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Control Computer with Eyes [DIY]

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:53:35 +0000

If you thought gestural input was the end of the world, you are probably wrong. It’s possible to build a PC for cheap that can be controlled by your Eyes!

Eye controlled input has been around for a while, but it was never possible to DIY for cheap.

EyeWriter, a project that aims to help people suffering from ALS with creative technology, has come up with a innovative eye-tracker product that will make your computer dance with your eyeballs.

Watch it for yourself the proof of Concept:

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DIY Universal Credit Card Spoofer

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:56:42 +0000

Earlier, back in the 90s when I first dated the Internet, I found credit cards were easy to exploit. It was as easy as getting a software that auto-generates numbers that could be used to make purchase online. Thank god, those things no longer work, other wise it would have been chaos.

Well what you are about to read could be HARMFUL to us, again.

WARNING: Do not proceed if you intend to exploit this. The sole purpose of the original author of the hack is for educational purposes only.

Magnetic spoofers have been around for a while. The one you see in movies, a kid hacks CCs with a piece of hardware, is very much possible.

We’re getting close to that kind of magic with card spoofer that is button-programmable.

Jarek, the author of the Hack, accomplished this by interfacing a 16-button keyboard and a LCD with an AVR ATmega168 microcontroller. Card codes can be entered with the buttons and verified on the LCD. Of .. Read Further »
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Build Motion Sensor Security using Laptop

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:22:38 +0000

Security and privacy is important. But most gadgets available int he market let you achieve this at couples of hundreds of Dollars. Not every one can afford it.
So here is a DIY Tutorial which doesn’t even need any special hardware.
Most notebooks come with WebCams or most people have it separately plugged-in via USB. If you don’t have it, not a big deal, they cost around $10-40.

We will use a free software accompanying your cam that will together make a Fool Proof motion detection system.

Highlight cam is a free software you can register online and start monitoring immediately and make your PC a security system and act as a silent security guard for your office, Home or any other space.

Features:

* Motion alert notifications sent via Email
* Off-site backup in case the intruder takes the computer

How to Setup:

It’s damn easy. Follow the link and Register and plugin your camera and then you’ll be asked to take a still recording of your .. Read Further »
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DIY Build Cheap 1080p HD Projector

admin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:56:09 +0000

HD is the Defacto standard for you LCD TVs and Home entertainment. 1080p or FullHD Movies is the best that is available today for the end-user. HD is addictive. Once you watch something over HD, there’s no looking back at SD.

The Bad thing about buying a full HD projector is the cost. A decent one can cost you more than a grand, in fact good ones will cost in multiples. So how do we fulfill the HD Projector dream? Yes, Build it yourself.

Thanks to the tutorial presented by techzilla, it’s cheap to build. watch the video.

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DIY How to Extend Bluetooth Range

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:04:00 +0000

Are you bothered by short rrange of your Bluetooth device? You want to put your A2DP adapters and roam around in the neighbourhood while streaming music from laptop? This DIY might be for you.

With a bit geeky Bluetooth mod, you can replace the antenna on a Linksys USBBT100 USB Bluetooth adapter with a larger one, and extend its range by up to a mile. Looks pretty good, and ubelievable?

Just as a flashlight’s reflector focuses a small bulb’s light to make it appear brighter, the right antenna can boost a weak wireless signal.

Follow the guide.
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DIY: Build a Supercomputer

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:12:17 +0000

Yes! Its true. you can build this. and believe me it can fit into your pocket aswell. It will take around $2400 or Rs. 1,20,000 only. Compare this with Million$ supercomputer used in R&D labs. Don’t worry, this will be faster than that one.

Take 8 PS 3 consoles, Yellow Dog Linux, a Gigabit Ethernet switch and your favorite protein folding or gravitational wave modeling codes and you’re doing real science. On a Playstation!

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The PS3’s Cell Broadband Engine processor, or Cell, is a heterogenous multiprocessor. Instead of identical cores – like the Intel and AMD multi-core processors – the Cell consists of a 64bit PowerPC core and 8 “synergistic co-processor elements” (SPEs).

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DIY: Stripe your Lawn like professionals

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:53:11 +0000

Are you fascinated with green lavish grasses dressed up like soccer grounds?

Then this guide is for you. REad on a findout how can you stripe your grass like demonstrated on left.

Instructables posts an interesting article. All you will need to get started is:

1. pvc pipe 3″ thick and the width of the back wheels or slightly smaller.(see picture)

2. 3/4″ thick plywood

3. 2 “eye” hooks big enough for 2 plastic ties to go through.

4. Several long plastic ties

5. drill

6. screwdriver

7. 3″ hole saw (optional)

8. Gravel or sand.

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DIY Build a Solar Energy Powerhouse for your home

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:24:32 +0000

Going Green, Eco-friendly is good.

Earlier, I had posted a solar panel DIY Solar powered charging your iPhone, bicycle powered usb charger and several other Green initiative tips. And now, I found a tutorial which lets you setup complete powerhouse (ofcourse for household use only) by which you can power your Home theater, refrigerator, PCS and what not. So free electricity is not just a dream, with decrease in prices of solar panels, its now more affordable than ever.

Although, it may seem a little tough, the setup is fairly simple and straightforward. If you endup generating enough energy to power your home, the local city .. Read Further »
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DIY Aluminum Laptop Stand dirt cheap $10

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:44:03 +0000

I have seen many DIY for laptop stands, bu this one attracted me as its the cheapest and pretty clean at design.

Constructing it up should take couple of hours. Let’s start.

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DIY Bicycle-Powered USB Device Charger

admin — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:37:40 +0000

Last week we took a look at MightyMintyBoost, a solar-powered USB charger. If you liked the idea but can’t count on the sun shining, this USB charger runs on the power of your bicycle pedals.

Like the solar-powered charger, this pedal-powered charger is based off the previously mentioned MintyBoost charger (which is simply powered by AA batteries). As opposed to the MintyBoost, which is built to be as easy to assemble as possible, the geek quotient that lies within this Instructable is high. That said, if you’ve got the chops, time, and cash to pull it off (the motor they used cost a whopping $275), it’s a really fun idea.

How to Charge Any USB Device by Riding Your Bike [Instructables] .. Read Further »
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Make a Solar power charger for iTouch, iPhone

admin — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:50:05 +0000

Save energy, Go GREEN. Instructables user Honus’s DIY MightyMintyBoost tutorial is a bit involved, but the outcome—a USB charger that feeds off the power of the sun—is fantastic. In fact, Honus improves on the MintyBoost in many ways, foregoing the low-capacity AA batteries for a higher capacity, rechargeable lithium polymer battery and throwing in the solar cell to handle the recharging. This DIY is a bit advanced (soldering lies ahead), but the result is impressive.

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Convert a Gadget From Money-Sucking Batteries to AC Power.

admin — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:51:00 +0000

Every one knows the constant cycle of buying or recharging batteries for kid-related products—but the Instructables web site has some guides to modifying your gadgets to use AC power instead of batteries.

The guides walk you through the process of converting your battery-sucking gadgets to use AC power. Both guides require rolling up your sleeves, ripping the gadget apart, and doing some soldering—if using a soldering iron is new to you, LiffeHacker’ve got a beginner’s guide to help you out.

The first guide covers in detail how to use a switch, some wire, and an old cell phone charger to convert a baby swing to use AC power, and the second guide is a more broad, general overview of how to modify devices—but isn’t quite as detailed. If you’ve got any personal experience in modifying gadgets to use AC power instead of batteries. .. Read Further »
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