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How To: Turn an wireless X10 camera into a helmet cam

See how to make an X10 wireless security camera into a nice helmet cam on the cheap in this three-part video. All it takes is an X10 camera, ten bucks in parts, and two hours of your time.

How To: Make a laser from your computer's DVD drive

Here, in a silent video (that means no sound), you'll see the steps to creating your own laser from some wire and your old DVD drive from your computer. You can always tear apart a good computer too, but that's just stupid.

How To: Build an alarm system in under three minutes

This is a DIY (do-it-yourself) alarm system. Try building it in under three minutes!

How To: Make a homemade television antenna

With some simple household materials and about 30-60 minutes of your time, you can make a working antenna for your TV!

How To: Build a pulse motor

See how to build a pulse motor with just one transistor and one diode.

How To: Assemble a simple motor together

See the assembly and run of a very basic electric motor. Just get all that you need and put it together, just like in this video. The battery, the coil, the magnets -- they're all just waiting for you to make a motor out of them.

How To: Make an electric circuit board

See how to make a cool electric circuit board with a software program and some skills. You can do it too, if you follow along.

How To: Make a great ten buck television antenna

Make a great TV antenna for just ten dollars worth of items you can find in your home! This will make a better than average antenna to replace those expensive ones at the store.

How To: Make a pair of headlight slippers

Pimp out your favorite pair of slippers to be as useful in the night as they are in the day. This is a fun and cheap little project for making headlight slippers, that way you don't trip and fall down the stairs at night, or stub your toe.

How To: Pimp your toy helicopter with a spy camera

Turn an inexpensive RC (remote controlled) helicopter into a flying spycam! Grab their cash and GO! Or just spy on your sister's sleepover party.

How To: Make a Night Vision Flashlight for Ten Bucks

Check out this instructional video and learn how to hack a simple flashlight and transform it into a night vision flashlight! The items you'll need for the project cost less than ten dollars and you get a perfect night vision view. Watch this how-to video and learn how to build a night vision flashlight on the cheap.

How To: Refill printer cartridges for just five bucks

Printers are one of the most popular home and office tools in the world, because they are inexpensive, yet highly versatile, but the ink costs more than the printers in some cases. Well, learn how you can refill those cartridges at home right now for only five dollars.

How To: Make a security system with an iron and a halogen lamp

Learn how you can protect your home in a pretty radical and fun way by transforming two cheap household items into a stealth hi-tech, anti-burglar, security system! Literally to hot for any bad guy to handle!

How To: Turn your electric air freshener into a bug killer

Learn how to make an automatic bug killing machine for under ten dollars. This works great and is really simple to make in just a few minutes! Those bugs will never bother you again.

How To: Create a cool CD clock out of an old two buck alarm

This will show you how to hack an old two dollar alarm clock and transform it into a cool DVD clock! No, it doesn't play DVD's or CD's, but it still looks cool.

How To: Hack a Mr. Microphone into a high tech spy device

Turn the classic 70's wireless toy into a modern high-tech spy device with the instructions in this how-to video. I never picked up any chicks with it anyway. This is another fantastic video tutorial by KipKay.

How To: Make an infrared pen to use with the Wiimote

Here are some step-by-step instructions on how to make an IR LED Pen to use with a Wiimote to create an inexpensive interactive whiteboard. It's a student video production of the WHS Tech Club.

How To: Make a fiber optic doggy coat

Keep your pooch safe and stylin’, with a little LED. Fiber Optics. They’re not just for humans anymore. When GeekBrief.tv star Cali Lewis, visited the Lair, Techno-Guru Alison made electronic fashion for a podcaster’s best friend.

How To: Make a digital picture frame from a Dell laptop

This is a laptop disassembly of a Dell Inspirion 7000, for the making of a digital picture frame. Watch this three-part video to make you the coolest kid on the block. See the disassembly in part one, the LCD retainer in part two, and the system board back panel in part three.

How To: Make a homemade laser pointer

Don't buy those $100+ laser pointers. Watch this video, and for under $50 you can make your own that is capable of burning, popping balloons, and cutting things!

How To: Pot mod a green laser to increase its power

See how to increase the mW of a 5 mW Green Laser Pointer!

How To: Bypass cable locks, just in case you have to

So, you've found yourself in a hotel room, and for some reason you just have to remove that cable from the wall. However, it is protected by a cable lock. In this instructional video, see how to defeat these using a piece of toilet paper, a pen, and the cable lock itself!

How To: Make a high voltage supply in just five minutes

In this video you will learn how to make a high voltage, high frequency power supply in just five minutes, and for less than twenty bucks. All you'll need is a compact fluorescent light (CFL) and a flyback transformer to make that alternative energy source of yours.

How To: Make BNC mini Hi-Res cable

If you have a five BNC input on your plasma or LCD tv, here is how you can make a cable to the length you need.

How To: Hack a Roomba with LEDs to make a Pacman-ba !

This is a hack to create a Roomba covered in LEDs that will munch your dust. See how to do this cool mod for the Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner made by iRobot.

How To: Scan a 3-D object

In the season finale of Know How, Tim uses a laser pointer and a wine glass to scan a 3-D image of his mom’s head. You have to see it to believe it.

How To: Charge a bulb light with household objects

Learn how to make a light bulb light up with common household items. This is how you make a light bulb light with:

How To: Build a lifecam time lapse web-enabled auto camera

Build a device that automatically takes and uploads pictures of your life every 30 seconds on the Internet.

How To: Build a laser diode driver

Learn how to build a driver that can be used for Red laser diodes and Blu-ray laser diodes.

How To: Build a laptop docking system for a YP-P2 mp3 player

How to build a laptop docking system so that you can plug your Samsung YP-P2 Mp3 player directly into your laptop.

How To: Build a light bulb

The final version of Build a Bulb, an Edison creation.

How To: Make a soap mouse for wireless tracking

Tires of those wire two button mouses, or even the wireless clickers? Well, come no further, the soapmouse is here. What in the hell is a soapmouse? Well, just watch and learn, and make one yourself.

How To: Make a cantenna, an antenna made from a can

Dr. Kiki makes a homemade cantenna, an antenna made out of a can, duh! Moujan reports back from the ultimate DIY event, Maker Faire 2008, and Heather goes beekeeping in the Fringe - all on PopSiren.

How To: Attach a webcam to a telescope

This shows you how to modify a webcam so that you can attach it to a telescope. Just think, you'll never have to look in that eyepiece again. Just stuff this thing down there.

How To: Make inexpensive solar panels from broken ones

As far as the world of consumer electronics goes, it doesn't get much greener than recycling solar panels. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to solder together broken solar panels, giving them new life as a functional AA battery charger, which produces about 6 volts in direct sunlight and about 3 volts indoors. In order to get started on this hack, you'll need a number broken solar panels (which can be had cheap for cheap on the Internet), a low-temperature soldering iron, silver-beari...