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![]() | Top 25 Outstanding DIY Dorm Projects
School is back in session shortly for most college students. While you could be an average Joe and and buy all your back to school goods, you'll be far better off building your own DIY projects to pimp your bland dorm room. These fantastic... |
![]() | Make a DIY Fiber Optic Star Ceiling
Fiber optics are just plain amazing. They carry data at ridiculous speeds and have a whole assortment of lighting possibilities too. There are a few main types of fiber optics including end glow and side glow (pretty self explanatory) and cheap... |
![]() | Absolutely Incredible Mac-Tacular Lair
Yes, you're probably drooling at the above picture too. What an absolutely incredible setup! There are actually several computers hooked up to the monitors and they can be controlled by the single mouse and keyboard using... |
![]() | Field Of Fluorescent Tubes Powered By Ambient Current
A British artist placed 1,300 fluorescent tubes in a field directly below high voltage power lines. Although the tubes aren't connected to anything but the earth, they are fully illuminated because of this phenomenon, "Powerlines are... |
| | How to Combine Video Displays into a 120' Wall
At NYU, they've combined the power of 27 projectors to create a massive 120 feet long video display. It uses software called Spyder (not free) to combine them into the equivalent of six 16:9 displays. It's absurdly over the top, but... |
![]() | Incredible, Sleek Blue LED Case Mod
Combining his incredible carpentry and circuitry skill, this modder created a fantastic, modern LED case mod design. Based on a Beijing building, it incorporates sleek, circuitry-like lines creating a fantastic ambient effect. The... |
![]() | Tutorial: How to Make LED Cubes
The warm ambient glow of the LED Cube's fantastic display of illuminated animation and hours of programming. They're actually easier to create than you may think. We'll show you how in plain English using simple designs and... |
![]() | Build Your Own PC Ambient Light: "Ambilight"
Some of the best do it yourself projects are the ones that give you the functionality of an expensive commercial product, on the cheap. Such is the case with the MoMoLight "Movie Mood Light" Ambilight Mod, which lets you endow your laptop or PC... |
![]() | Solar Powered Temperature Sensing LEDs
What They Are and How They Work
The Glowies use a small microcontroller, but they are really quite simple in both parts and function. The core of the unit is a silicon diode used as a temperature sensor (actually, two of them). These Glowies... |
![]() | Make an LED Gmail Notifier
Using an Arduino, you can program any device to turn on, illuminate, spin, fly, whatever you want when you receive an email. In this tutorial, the author used an LED Cube with an embedded RBG color cycle. If you don't happen to have a glowing... |








































