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Lego Circular Saw

Mech — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:00:04 +0000

Lego Printer which i posted a week ago and now here come the crafted circular saw which is made mostly out of Legos. It is really powered by a 9V Lego power pack and has a real metal blade attached. This thing will not cut anything because the builder has rounded off the blade. As you know Lego will draw kid. Watch the video.

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DIY Macro Lighting LED Ring

Mech — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:10:57 +0000

A while back we had a piece about the power of using LEDs in photography. In that article we had a very primitive LED ring light. In this guest post, Tim Brook shares a much better way to create a LED ring light.

Browsing through the dealextreme website, I came across these LED car headlight rings and thought that they’d be ideal for making a Macro Lighting Ring so I placed my order and had a go.

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Attaching SLR lenses to an iPhone

Mech — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:36:05 +0000

People just cannot get enough of iPhone. There are already so many amazing diy or application made for this phone and it just keep coming. You can find some in my blog if wish to read more or you can just Google for diy iphone or hack iphone there are so many hack and diy for this phone. Today i have found an even amazing diy for this phone. This guy actually went to attach a dslr lens on his iPhone. And i think he has name it as The Phone-O-Scope. Let see how he actually do it.

iPhone diy dslr lens

This is how the final build will look like. In the picture is a 18-55mm lens attach to the iPhone.

DIY iPhone dslr lens 1

He do it by first removing the iPhone back casing. Then you need to get a spoil or not in use anymore CD player so that you can use the lenses inside for your iPhone. This is to magnify the iPhone lens aperture so as to minimize the vignette that is cause by the dslr lens. After that he wrapped a thin layer of putty around the edges of the stacked lenses to stick thin strips of paper around the edges of the lenses. This is done so that they can be assembled together and handled as a single unit

DIY iPhone dslr lens 2

He made use of old end lens cap, and two pieces of two-inch PVC pipe connectors to make the lens adapter to hold the dslr lens. It was important that the connectors could be connected via a screw thread – this way we can move the whole SLR lens back and forth for secondary focusing.

DIY iPhone dslr lens 3

Finally he tape the lens onto the lens adapter using duct tape. Take your time to tape it. As it involve a lot of small nice trim duct tape in order to be ale to stick them together properly.

DIY iPhone dslr lens 4

This another view of the finish product. For complete and a more detail guide you can check it out at the link below.

via captin nod

World first racing car that is run on chocolate

Mech — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:25:49 +0000

This formula 3 racing car is made from woven flax, recycled carbon fibre, recycled resin and carrot pulp for the steering wheel. The racing only need to run on biofuel that is made from chocolate and animal fats and is lubricated with plant oils. This racing is not only to promote envronmentally friendly car in fact it is really fast. It is capable of reaching a top speed of 135 mph, can achieve 0-60 in 2.5 seconds and is turbo charged to give it more torque.

The car will make its first competitive debut in the Formula 3 Championship final at Brands Hatch on 17th October. After getting approval from drivers such as Lewis Hamilton and Adam Carroll as well as F1 team boss Ross Brawn.

via sciencedaily

Hacked Alarm Clock

Mech — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:43:46 +0000

Having problem waking up even though you try to use 2 alarm clock. If u are free maybe you can try out this simple hack for fun. It definitely going to wake up your whole family maybe even your neighbour.

via gizmodo

DIY – Portable PS2

Mech — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:12:45 +0000

This is a amazing diy project created by benhack. He dismantle the whole slim version of PS2 and hook it up with a Lithium-ion battery pack. And the portable ps2 case was also design by him. What i have say here is just a brief design of the portable ps2. If you are interested in the whole design process you can head to benhack and read more about it.

PS2 portable the case and LCD screen

PS2 portable the wiring and the final product

PSP laptop

Mech — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:53:23 +0000

PSP laptop

I think this is cool. This got to be the best mod of the year. If it was to be able to install OS such us ubuntu or xp that will be great. I hope Sony will buy this guys PSP laptop idea.

via hackaday

Hack Google for free stuffs

Mech — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:07:06 +0000

This video show you how to hack Google for free music, games, ebooks and other software. But after watching the video i feel that it is more of how you make full use of the search engine. Not really hacking. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to search Google for free stuff. Please wait for a while for the video to load, there is a bar on the top right of the video showing the loading time. Hope you enjoy the video.

via wonderhowto

PSP 3000 Finally Hacked

Mech — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:47:01 +0000

PSP3000 finally has been hacked by team Typhoon. The video show a demo of the 5.03 firmware running the tiff exploit and booting into a HEN environment on a PSP 2003 (3000 Support also) on 5.03 Official Firmware. This allows you to run custom code on the PSP by taking advantage of the tiff exploit. The program is not finalized yet so you may have to wait a while more before it is release on the net.

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WTH Do criminal want our old phone for?

Mech — Sun, 03 May 2009 07:00:42 +0000

Nokia 1100

Some hackers in the Europe have offer up to US$32000 for this Nokia 1100 old phone. According to a Dutch company this phone can allegedly be hacked so that it can facilitate illegal online banking transfers. The 1100 can apparently be reprogrammed to use someone else’s phone number, which would also let the device receive text messages. That capability opens up an opportunity for online banking fraud. In countries such as Germany, banks send an mTAN (mobile Transaction Authentication Number) to a person’s mobile phone that must be entered into a Web-based form in order to, for example, transfer money into another account. A TAN can only be used once, a security feature known as a one-time passcode.

via pcworld