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Design
DIY: When LED Throwies Meet Mouse Taxidermy
4:00AM Danny Allen | Say your pet rat dies. Instead of trashing it, you could shove LED throwie lights into its eye-sockets in a decorative taxidermy experiment that’s as creative as it is graphically morbid. It might be what little Snowy would have wanted. More »
Cameras
How To Build A Snorricam, So You Can Film Your Face
11:45AM Dan Nosowitz | Hey, narcissists and/or filmmakers! Instructables has a guide to making your own Snorricam, that chest-mounted camera holder that points the lens directly at your own face. More »
Gadgets
Altoids Tin Catapult Will Make You Feel, And Act, 10 Years Old Again
3:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Here’s an Instructables to bring back the obnoxious kid that lives not so far down in all of us: Learn how to turn one of those miniature Altoids tins into a tiny catapult. It’ll be fun for nobody but you. More »
Cameras
How To: Make A Fisheye DSLR Lens For $US16
10:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Over at Instructables, user Banjomaster shows how to make a fisheye lens for his Nikon D90 for just $US16, with the help of one of those wide-angle doorway peephole lenses. More »
Robots
10:45AM Dan Nosowitz | This DIY project takes common parts, including a clock from IKEA and a fluorescent desk lamp, and turns them into this sweet robot voice modulator that makes even the most emotional, dramatic vocals seem cold and calculating. More »
DIY Voice Modulator Makes Everybody Do The Robot (or At Least Sound Like One)
10:45AM Dan Nosowitz | This DIY project takes common parts, including a clock from IKEA and a fluorescent desk lamp, and turns them into this sweet robot voice modulator that makes even the most emotional, dramatic vocals seem cold and calculating. More »
Gadgets
Let Your Hello Kitty Watch Be All It Can Be
11:20AM Gizmodo US Edition | On its own, the Hello Kitty McDonalds watch is yet another landfill-bound plastic chotchke. Not very green thinking. Luckily, Instructables has put together a handy how-to for turning yours into a cool custom timepiece. More »
Games
Guitar Hero and Rock Band Controller Mod For Finicky Fingers
11:30AM Matt Hickey | Guitar Hero fans usually hate the Rock Band guitar controller and vice versa. Instructables has a pretty good how-to that can solve the problem for Guitar Hero fans at the cost of a Rock Band controller. It’s a way to mash up an old PS2 Guitar Hero controller with the Rock Band Fender guitar and make a perfect hybrid with raised keys a clicky strum. You could just use an Xbox 360 Guitar Hero controller for Rock Band if you’re on an, but where’s the fun in that? [Instructables] More »
Gadgets
Give a Bluetooth Handgun Handset a Shot
9:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Got an unused airsoft gun from your, guns are cool, teenage years? Why not transform it into bluetooth handset, that you’ll probably still never use. A user at Instructables did just that by rewiring an older Jabber handset inside an airsoft gun. Even though it’s probably the biggest and most absurd bluetooth handset, the workings of it are pretty cool. The trigger has been wired as the call button, the barrel as the speaker and the grip as the mic, making it perfect for taking calls with the wife when she finds out you stole her bluetooth handset and put it into a gun. Hit the jump to see iPhone lover’s reactions to such a bluetooth device called iGiveUp. More »
Gadgets
DIY Sleeping Mask Puts You In Control of Your Dreams
9:50AM Benny Goldman | There’s a Lucid Dream Machine sleeping mask on Instructables that pulses LEDs in your eyelids four hours after you fall asleep, waking you up just enough to notice your dreams and control their outcomes. The mask requires a fair bit of soldering and programming experience, so it isn’t for DIY luddites like me. Which is good, because my sleep is too precious and my dreams are too weird to want one of these anyway. [Instructables via Make] More »
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