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LEGO: Mindstorms NXT

January 19, 2012 // 0 Comments

The name LEGO has been synonymous with interlocking plastic bricks for over 80 years. While those colorful pieces has been the foundation of endless hours of creative fun, [...]

Headlight Restoration: Meguiar’s

January 12, 2012 // 0 Comments

Plastic headlights can yellow and dull from UV exposure, resulting in a dimmer beam at night. Dim headlights at night can be dangerous. A few years ago, one of the editors [...]

DomeSkin FirstLook

January 3, 2012 // 0 Comments

Some of you may have received shiny new gadgets as presents during the holidays and may be wondering how best to protect them from the bumps and bruises of everyday use. The [...]

Craftsman Project Center

November 17, 2011 // 0 Comments

Five years ago we purchased a rolling toolchest to house our growing collection of tools. A few years later, we went with a more industrial unit because we needed a [...]

Leonardo da Vinci collection

November 16, 2011 // 1 Comment

Tesla, Edison, Jobs are names we all know well. We associate them with inventions which forever changed our lives. However, hundreds of years before them lived an inventor [...]

Armstrong Ceiling Install

November 8, 2011 // 0 Comments

Recently we got a call from one of our editors in New York asking if we would be interested in coming down for a RainyDayRenovation project. Apparently, the tiles of the [...]

550 Paracord Belt

November 1, 2011 // 0 Comments

Maybe it was the buckle with the rescue whistle. Maybe it was the idea of having quick access to 50′ of rescue rope. But when we read the [...]

Installing ofxKinect for OSX

October 25, 2011 // 0 Comments

Playing  with the Kinect hacks are a lot of fun. Getting the hacks to work on the Mac, not so much. OK, not AS much. However, we REALLY REALLY wanted to see the Kinect [...]

Unpacking an LCD TV

October 21, 2011 // 0 Comments

One  would think getting a TV out of the box would be no big thing, but a large screen LCD TV is kind of unwieldy. While not very heavy, thethe LCD TV panel is wide and [...]

The Cult of LEGO

October 20, 2011 // 0 Comments

John  Baichtal is a contributor to MAKE magazine (awesome for their articles on DIYs, hacks, and other such things) and Wired’s GeekDad blog. John has written for [...]
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