MetaFilter posts tagged with DIY and technology

Convert Your Car to Run On Water

jonson — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:18:51 -0800

Do You Want To Know RIGHT NOW How You Can Drive Around Using WATER as FUEL and Laugh At Rising Gas Costs, While Reducing Emissions and Preventing Global Warming?

DIY Biotech

Kid Charlemagne — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:05:31 -0800

Worried about the state of biodiversity? Why not make some of your own? Moore’s law is all over biotechnology right now. Can the hackers be far behind? MIT's Drew Endy doesn’t think so. Ready to get started? You might already have some of the tools that you will need. Plans for others are available on the web. All you need now are some parts.

Da-Doo Ron RONJA

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:45:23 -0800

RONJA is an optical networking device that can be built by nearly everyone, using readily available components and using only free software.

Discover the goodness that is Hack A Day

Ogre Lawless — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:41:35 -0800

Discover the goodness that is Hack A Day -- DIY geekery of all sorts awaits you: vacuum forming • Infrared web cams and digital cams • robotic helicopter • Telemarketer Interception System • Jacob's Ladder • Dobsonian telescope [pdf] • prison tatoo gun • TIG welder • parallel and serial port sound • LCD projector • FM transmitter [tripod] • computer-controlled glider • jet-powered beer cooler • retro wooden laptop • White Trash hoverboard • refrigerator speaker cabinet • tornado machine [pdf] • fog machine • LED Pimp Bed • seismometer • persistence-of-vision game system • webcam telescope • racing game controllers • Segway • laser projectors • flamethrower • bagpipes and hours upon hours of time wasting others.

You know you like to tinker

Fozzie — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:28:02 -0800

First came the O'Reilly hacks series. There there was Make magazine, which claims to be the first magazine devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and DIY inspiration. Now a niche publication for Lego geeks who want to know everything about wee plastic bricks.

... because what every man really wants is A JET TO FLY

clockwork — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:25:20 -0800

Build your own ramjet for under $60.

Give me the Oscillation Overthruster!

loquacious — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:23:57 -0800

How to build yourself a Glow Discharge Panel. No, really. Woah, that's freakin' cool. UFO stuff, I think to myself. Heh. Oh.. Oh holy crap!