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  • A DIY pen holder for your Moleskin (or other overpriced) notebook

    A DIY pen holder for your Moleskin (or other overpriced) notebook

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Are your hipster jeans just too tight to hold a pen for your trendy Moleskin notebook? Devin knows your pain. Well then, here's a quick DIY sewing project that will place a pen holder on the outside of your trusty notepad.

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  • The iAngle might just be the most clever iPhone stand ever

    The iAngle might just be the most clever iPhone stand ever

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    This morning when I woke up, I thought to myself: "Man -- I sure hope there isn't anything sitting in my tips inbox that is so simple and yet so clever that it makes me feel completely inadequate." Apparently I didn't hope hard enough.

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  • DIY: Coat Hook Headphone Hanger

    DIY: Coat Hook Headphone Hanger

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Need a quick and easy place to store your headphones? I've been unplugging mine and putting them in a drawer, but I think I like this idea better.

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  • CrunchGear Week in Review: Satellite Buzz Edition

    CrunchGear Week in Review: Satellite Buzz Edition

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Here are some stories from last week on CrunchGear: Portal corporate training program a huge success Old Man Laser: Officially over the hill PlayStation Move Controller will cost $60, expected Sept. 1st CubeSat XI-V: Japan gets tweeting satellite DIY: The Microsoft Office car alarm prank

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  • DIY: a knob for your iPhone

    DIY: a knob for your iPhone

    Posted on May 13, 2010 | No Comments
    So you don't like a stylus, but you don't want to get your iPhone screen all dirty either. Easy solution, build a knob that will simulate the act of touching your iPhone screen. This is an easy build, but it'll take some tweaking to get the fabric in the right places to work properly. Seems like there's been quite a few iPhone related knobs lately.

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  • Daily Crunch: Celebrity Sighting Edition

    Daily Crunch: Celebrity Sighting Edition

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    DIY: Wooden DSLR shoulder mount USB powered boots hit the mainstream Ah, there’s that tripod notebook stand I’ve been waiting for New solar cells printed on paper Contest: Win a year of LiveBooks Unboxing the fabled black Wii

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  • DIY: Wooden DSLR shoulder mount

    DIY: Wooden DSLR shoulder mount

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Most shoulder mounts for DSLR video are strange metal and carbon fiber contraptions, which work I guess. But what if you want something a bit more organic, something that you can make yourself. Here's a shoulder mount that was constructed from a single piece of wood.

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  • Daily Crunch: Rooftop Observatory Edition

    Daily Crunch: Rooftop Observatory Edition

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Hyper Telescope: Bandai’s new “science toy” for kids Review: iRobot Looj How to clog your arteries the fun and flavorful way! Microsoft Arc Keyboard vs the Apple Wireless Keyboard DIY: Nikon IR remote in a Lego

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  • Daily Crunch: Class Notes Edition

    Daily Crunch: Class Notes Edition

    Posted on April 14, 2010 | No Comments
    SketchNation: DIY iPad gaming plus a giveaway Apple re-affirms its longstanding commitment to not being a gaming platform Estimate: 800,000 U.S. Households Abandoned Their TVs For The Web 3D printing gets even more affordable with the BFB 3000 Apple finally releases Core i5 and Core i7 MacBook Pros

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  • SketchNation: DIY iPad gaming plus a giveaway

    SketchNation: DIY iPad gaming plus a giveaway

    Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've dreamt all your life of blowing up your third-grade teacher with spitball guns, your prayers have been answered. SketchNation is a surprisingly odd game that allows you to select all of the sprites in gameplay. You can set your own character sprite (a spitball gun, for example), the sprites for the bullets or spitballs, and even set up a boss image (your third-grade teacher). You then fly through a hail of bullets until you beat the game. Apparently you can also blow up Walt Mossberg and David Pogue, for whatever reason. Those men are saints. Anyway, if you'd like to try it out, comment below. I'll send codes to five lucky, random readers. Viel Glück!

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  • DIY: Convert a disposable camera into a slave flash

    DIY: Convert a disposable camera into a slave flash

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Buying a flash unit can be expensive, but here's a cheapskate alternative that will do the job, at least for a while. Plus, you're recycling a disposable camera into something reusable, and saving all those bits from the landfill. Besides, once you use all of the flash out of one disposable camera, you can always build another one to replace it, and recycle the first one.

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  • DIY: Get medieval with the Mini-Trebuchet

    DIY: Get medieval with the Mini-Trebuchet

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Make magazine has a special place in my heart, partly because I love the crazy stuff they come up with, and partly because they want to help you build the crazy stuff they come up with. When I was a youngster, we made a rudimentary version of a catapult in scouts. Sure, it didn't work very well, and it was powered by a rubber band made from an inner tube, but you could sure launch a walnut with it. That's why when I see a kit like this, I'm filled with an overwhelming urge to buy one.

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  • DIY: 500 LED Extreme Flashlight

    DIY: 500 LED Extreme Flashlight

    Posted on March 28, 2010 | No Comments
    So you think you’ve got a bright flashlight. You got nothing! This guy built his own, with 500 LEDs (which consume a shockingly low 50 watts when it’s powered up. This guy is so good, he wasn’t just content to build the most ridiculously bright LED flashlight in the world, oh no. He also built [...]

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  • Daily Crunch: Dog Days Edition

    Daily Crunch: Dog Days Edition

    Posted on March 26, 2010 | No Comments
    DIY Segway skateboard. Yeah, you read that right: DIY Flasks disguised as electronics let you get your drink on like a blogger Apple patent watch: sun-lit displays WhiteyBoard: An instant whiteboard for your instant office Dog high chair

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  • DIY Segway skateboard. Yeah, you read that right: DIY

    DIY Segway skateboard. Yeah, you read that right: DIY

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    I know of only one person who would be able to build this thing - my buddy Paul - but I would totally grab a beer and watch him solder everything together and then ride around on this thing like a little freak. Heck, if you try to build this, tell me and we'll come by and film you riding it. Seriously. The instructions are pretty complex and you need quite a few parts, including a powerful motor and a go kart wheel.

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