DIY Electronic Magic 8-Ball! Remember those “magic” 8-balls you used to do in college? No, I am not talking about that one but the one that tells your future. I am sure many of you have played with it now there’s a DIY guide on how to make your own DIY electronic magic 8-ball! For about a week now I have been staring at a cellphone charger my friend Caitlin gave me to repair after she had loaned it to some chimpanzees for apparent durability testing. I was debating on whether I had put the repair off long enough, when, with no humans in earshot to ask, I figured I would build a Magic 8 Thing and ask it if I could procrastinate any longer.
Was this a lack of motivation to repair a cellphone charger or was it motivation to make a Magic 8 Thing. Irrelevant really as I got both things done in about 10 hours this weekend. via hackedgadgets, Project Page. How to Make Electric Cable Organizer with Toilet Paper Rolls! DIY Daft Punk Helmet! Check out Harrison Krix who spent the last 17 months building this fully-functional DIY Daft Punk Helmet. This is the most awesome DIY project I’ve probably seen for the last 17 months with every gory detail mastered to perfection. This would be the ultimate helmet to wear to a rave concert. Here’s a time-lapse video of the DIY Daft Punk Helmet in the making: via make. DIY Smartphone Dot Matrix Printer! World’s Most Useless DIY Machine! DIY Creepy Box! DIY Magnet Eddy Current Simulator Makes You Want to Poop in Your Pants! How to Make DIY RFID tag with Duct Tape! [RedNeck] You know how duct tape can solve a lot of everyday problems including an airplane wing, and here’s another way to apply duct tape to roll your own RFID tag with a bunch of wires.
It ain’t pretty but gets the job done and the RFID read range is on par with commercial RFID tags, unbelievable. It’s ugly, and I really want to try this experiment over again with a smaller IC package, like TSOP-8. But the card works very well, and the read range is practically indistinguishable from a mass-produced RFID card. I tested this one using an official HID ProxPoint reader. via make, adafruit More redneck stuff: How to Build a Redneck Duct Tape Server! How to Make Redneck Duct Tape iPad Sleeve! How to Make Redneck Duct Tape Hoodie! DIY Redneck Backseat Driving Van!