How Wired.com Built Beer Robot, Our DIY Kegerator
(wired.com) - This is the story of Beer Robot, an ugly old fridge that grew into a super geeky kegerator.
It started out innocently enough. After work one day at the local brewpub, three Wired.com staffers had a revelation: “What our office really needs is a kegerator!”
MV CoilMaster Mark1 Coil Gun - aka DIY Coil Gun
(hackedgadgets.com) - "Fully semi-automatic, up to 14 shots.
Capable of delivering over 18J kinetic energy, and speeds up to 110km/h! (42 gram projectiles).
It’s a single stage gun, using a 8800uF(4×2200) capacitor bank with max 400v (704J).
Max shot efficiency is 2.8% but reaches almost 4% at lower voltages.
Charge time for 300v (12J kinetic energy More...
Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer
(maximumpc.com) - There is, it turns out, a whole community of very smart folks out there on the internet perfecting the art of building DIY multi-touch surfaces. The process isn’t exactly simple, but the results we saw were stunning: multitouch surfaces with responsiveness rivaling Microsoft’s $12,000 offering, built in a garage on More...
DIY Home Power Usage Meter
(picobay.com) - This post details a real-time web based household power usage chart. The end result is a live chart in a web page that updates every 10 seconds with the instantaneous power usage for my entire house.
How to create your own Firefox theme
(techradar.com) - With a seemingly endless collection of add-ons, extensions and extras, Firefox is one of the most customisable browsers. But you can take your customisations even further by changing the graphics and adding your own add-ons and extensions.
