This Hands Free Water Station is Perfect for Camping, Backyard Playgrounds
It's...a standard 2.5 jug of water. You can get them from any grocery store and carry it with one hand. I've learned, through lifehacker, instructables, and similar sites, that people often have very different definitions of camping.
12 Meaningful Movies With Important Life Lessons To Learn
by Celes on Jul 23, 2010 | ShareThis Email This Post “Celes, I was reading one of your articles and noticed a reader mentioning the movie ‘Yes Man’ in his comment.
How to Recover Data From a Broken Hard Drive
If you are reading this article you are probably desperate, but before you panic let me tell you that there is hope, and there is probably more hope than you think…. Even if your hard drive has an internal mechanical malfunction, data can be recovered without having to send the hard drive to a data recovery service. Yes! you heard right, I’m sure you have come across articles that will tell you how to recover data from a damaged partition, you will find a ton of those on the web, but when your hard drive starts malfunctioning none of those articles are going to help you solve your problem, This article will.
Arduino Laser Tag - Duino Tag
Duino tagger- General introduction Duino tag is a laser tag system based around the arduino. Finally a laser tag system that can be tweaked modded and hacked until you have the perfect laser tag system for office ordnance, woodland wars and suburban skirmishes. Laser tag is combat game like paintball or airsoft without the pain, it uses infrared light (IR) to simulate the tagging / shooting of other players or targets. I have been working on this project for a while, but don't see it as over, I just though it was time to get more people involved.
25 Most Inspirational Songs of All Time
by Celes on Aug 9, 2010 | ShareThis Email This Post Hi Celes, thank you for this post on movies. A great way to share/discover great inspirational movies. If I may request, can we have a post for list of most inspiring songs?
How to Use Adobe Photoshop for Portraits
Here is a short, sharp guide on how to use Adobe Photoshop to enhance your portrait photos. There are hundreds of cool techniques that can be applied to portraits, but the purpose of this tutorial is to provide you with 5 quick and easy ones that will give your images are real boost (all possible using Photoshop Elements We all take loads of portraits and they frequently turn out not quite right! Get these techniques nailed and you'll know how to Photoshop portraits in rapid time and with impressive professional results... This is our starting image. Let's see how applying a Photoshop trick or two can improve it...
Addressable Milk Bottles (LED Lighting + Arduino)
Make PPE milk bottles into good looking LED lights, and use an Arduino to control them. This recycles a number of things, mainly the milk bottles, and uses a very low amount of power: the LEDs apparently dissipate less than 3 watts but are bright enough to see by. Among other things, I wanted to see if I could make an electronic light feel more human friendly than most, and found rotary controllers are a good way of doing this. PPE milk bottles make for a cheap yet aesthetically pleasing way to diffuse LED lighting. Especially if you can find nice round ones :)
Computer Man-Caves That Make This Writer Drool And Cry
Steven On May 14, 2012 Ever since I first managed to start using a dual monitor setup I was hooked and really couldn’t see myself returning for any long period of time to some piddly laptop or tablet screen especially considering my workflow. There are time that I wish I could even expand beyond those two monitors but that probably won’t happen for some time. So, like you I will have to make do with this awesome collection of computer man-caves with screens galore and make sure my drool towel is close at hand.
Series Circuits
OK, you should know that electricity needs a completed circuit to flow, or a loop if you will. however it doesn't stop there, there are two types of circuit you will need to know and those are Series and Parallel. A Series circuit (pictured below) operates like a race track, one continuous route for the flow of electricity to take. the images below show a simple circuit where a battery is connected to two lamps, this is a series circuit as the two lamps are connected with inverse polarity. this is why we use resistors, to "absorb" some voltage (and current) to protect components.
Operating Systems
Tech Support: "May I ask what operating system you are running today?"Customer: "A computer." A girl walked into the computer center where I work. She said she was having problems with her Mac. I asked what kind of Mac she had. In an indignant voice, she replied, "Duh, Intosh."
Build Your Own Grid-It Tech Organizer in a Vintage Book
No! NOOO! As cool as this may look, I just cannot do this! I love my books too much. I would kill me to do this to a book, even if I owned several redundant copies of a book that I absolutely despised. Wouldn't someone enjoy reading them?
Create The Ultimate USB Rescue Drive « Not Just A Random Blog
Ever been at a friends house and needed to edit a photo, but all they have is MS Paint? Or have you ever been at grandmas and she asks you to remove the hundreds of viruses and spywares (she got from clicking the “You’ve won! Download this for your prize” banners), but she has no anti-spyware software and still on dial-up?
