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How To: Make time fly

Transform your old analog clock to an crazy clock. This makes the clocks arms spin freely and you can freak out your friends. This is a very cool hack for a clock.

How To: Make a solar cell with a condom

Make a solar cell from a condom with this video tutorial. Solar energy is plentiful and better for the environment, so why not take an easily accessible commodity (like a condom), and use it to harvest the power of the sun. To replicate this hack at home, you'll need the following materials: 12 iron hairpins, 2 pennies (pressed before 1982), 2 electrical wires, 1 sheet of aluminum, 2 strong magnets, a condom, and mineral water. For more on making your own condom-based solar cell, watch this h...

How To: Make the world's simplest homopolar engine

Learn how to make the the simplest homopolar motor there is with just a regular battery, a small watch battery, and a formed copper wire. This is really as simple as a homopolar motor gets. Two batteries and some wire... that's it!

How To: Make a Twitter talking teddy bear

Alison and Lloyd, the hosts of My Home 2.0, have created a Twittering Teddy Bear by performing surgery on an animatronic toy bear, adding a text-to-speech implant allowing the bear to speak real-time Twitter updates.

How To: Make a WiFi signal extender

Do it yourself: extend your WIFI signal. This is a quick and easy way to get more range for pennies.

How To: Make anti paparazzi infrared invisibility sunglasses

Paparazzi are very annoying for the stars but with these sunglasses, paparazzi can't take you in picture .Why ? Because with this sunglasses your face will be invisible to the camera . Disclaimer: CAUTION! . Never use them for illegal act. Make anti paparazzi infrared invisibility sunglasses.

How To: Make an umbrella parabolic microphone

Here's a an easy to make, dollar store DIY spy microphone that lets you listen from afar and bring the sounds up close. From Make Magazine Volume 14

How To: Debunk the popcorn with a cellphone hack

We've all seen the popcorn cell phone video. Now, we have the exclusive inside into how those videos were created. A microwave magnetron is strapped covertly to the bottom of the table. Then the prank is ready. Gather the phones and wait for the exciting reactions.

How To: Make simple solar panels

Want to build your own DIY solar panels on the cheap? This video demonstrates how to make solar panels to power devices. The video explains how a solar panel works and how to connect it to a radio in order to power it. For more on this hack, including step-by-step instructions for recreating it yourself, watch this eco-friendly hacking how-to.

How To: Wire up a 555 timer chip with a pulsing buzzer

See how to make a 555 timer chip with a pulsing buzzer. Parts:

How To: Make a wind powered LED pinwheel

This is a video tutorial that explains how to make a wind powered LED out of a pinwheel and an old VCR. Why have just a pinwheel when you can have an LED pinwheel?

How To: Hack your Maglite flashlight into a brighter one

See how to hack a two "D" cell Maglite to make it much brighter. This is a cheap but very power light of 700-800+ lumens, brighter than other hacks.

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: Turn a Webcam and Phone into a Security Spy System

Watch this video tutorial, and learn how to turn an ordinary inexpensive webcam into a hidden home security system, viewable anywhere in the world from your cell phone! With a cute and cuddly teddy bear and a cheap webcam, you can make the perfect homemade security camera, or just a camera to spy on your sister and her friends during sleepovers. Follow along with the steps in this how-to video and learn how to set up this spy system. Note: this video is NOT recommended for people who are perv...

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.