DIY Projects

HOW TO Water-cool your PC

HOW TO Water-cool your PC

Water
Two parts water, one part coolant, and one part guts are all it takes to water-cool your PC. It may seem a little extreme for a garden-variety desktop, but if your CPU runs hot or you’ve overclocked parts of your system, nothing beats the cooling power of classic H2O. Water conducts heat far better than air, and you don’t have to be a turbogeek to perform the conversion. Modern kits make installation little more challenging than swapping a fan or a heat sink. [via] Link.

DIY iPod socks – make your own or buy homemade ones!

DIY iPod socks – make your own or buy homemade ones!

37321508 A31B5Cef95 MHere’s a HOW TO on making your own iPod socks or you can buy homemade ones – A few months ago I asked my Mum to knit me an iPod sock, because I couldn’t stand the thought of shelling out over 20 quid for some thin piece of junk from Apple. Whilst she was experimenting, I suggested that she add in a pocket, for the earphones, because there’s nothing worse than losing your earphones. Link.

HOW TO make a desktop Line Following Robot

HOW TO make a desktop Line Following Robot

Ltc03 Cute project – Recently many kind of robot contests have being opened and some interesting reports of the challenge are found on the web. The Line Following is a kind of the robot contests to vie running speed on the line. I build a tiny line following robot which can run on the desk, moving the key board aside will do. It is for only a personal toy reduced its size less than one fifth compared to typical line following robots, not in formura. Link.

The Super Duper 3 Dollar Slide Duper

The Super Duper 3 Dollar Slide Duper

Materials Nice hack for duping slides- I started this because I have about 2000 35mm slides and nearly that many color negatives I’d like to convert to digital images, and many of them are 30 years old or more and starting to deteriorate. My first attempt involved purchasing a slide scanner from the-store-that-must-not-be-named, but it took like 3 to 4 minutes to prescan and then scan to file, and then it usually botched the exposure or the color balance. I realized that I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life scanning slides in this manner, so I started thinking about other solutions…[via] Link.