DIY

WEI Share ("We Share") is a Coding4Fun code sample that takes your Windows Experience Index score and shares it with the world (anonymously) to an Azure website with a Silverlight front end and lets you post your WEI score to Facebook for bragging rights. Why would you…

I've been following a very interesting series of posts over on the Home Server Hacks blog. They detailing, step-by-step, the process of building a $400 "green" Home Server. The server is encased in a Shuttle KPC housing, which is, according to the Shuttle web site, a low power consumption…

A new product from Century introduces a DIY device that lets you use Compact Flash cards for storage to create solid state drives between 2GB and 2TB in size. OK, the 2TB is theoretical...for now, at least. The device itself is a SATA HDD and is available now on GeekStuff4U for $192.67. Too much?…

Which word looks out of place here: Flickr, YouTube, WiFi, gasoline, GPS? For most of us Chevron and Shell don't figure into our daily internet existence, but then none of us are Brian Galloway. The idea of traversing the entire Western seaboard on a motorbike isn't exactly our cup of tea, but…

I couldn't resist attending Ignite Seattle!  A bridge building competition held in downtown Seattle to unite those with a little competitive edge.  Okay, it was way more then just a popsicle bridge building competition but that's what got me excited.  We will also have more…

Meet Tony from San Francisco state.  He built a drum machine that takes a midi signal from a midi device that goes to another device which processes the midi signal.  Got it?  Yea, better to just watch the video. It's short, but sweet.   

Join me down in San Mateo, CA as I check out Maker Faire! I chat with Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of Make Magazine, to find out what this event is all about, and I learn about the Maker's Bill of Rights from Mr. Jalopy himself! Want to see more? No worries, more Maker Faire coverage…

Bre Pettis is the man of my dreams, and perhaps yours as well. He is an artist, maker, podcaster, teacher, videographer, blogger, innovator and inventor. He stopped by our studios to talk about his latest robot, what he's been up to and where you can find him next-- which by the way is as a…

So Laura heads to Maker Faire and gets indepth information on those ridiculously high gas prices. Okay, well kind of. She talks to the founder of CalCars and learns how they can convert a Toyota Prius so that it can be charged using your household electricity ... power that is a whole lot cheaper…

Cars, cars, cars. It's all about making your ride custom to your needs. At Maker Faire I met up with Damien Stolarz, author of Car PC Hacks, and he introduced me to the all-in-one mobile electronics package StreetDeck. StreetDeck delivers all the extras you want (GPS, Music, DVD, the works!) and…