DIY

Microsoft employees are often as passionate about their hobbies as they are with their work. Salvador Patuel is an ADM out of our UK office during the day, but he's a hobbiest commercial airline pilot at night. Salvador loves flying so much he decided to build an elaborate controller to make…

Walking robots! Fire breathing metallic monsters! Flame shooting motorbikes! And all this just in one mans front yard. Ladies and Gentlemen...I introduce you to Lance from GreatHouse Labs. This is an unbelievable example of what one man can do with some metal scraps, a blow torch, an MP3 player…

Other than laptops, I've never had an off-the-shelf PC, so I always keep an eye out for a cool PC chasis. The most interesting one I've seen lately is Antec's Skeleton. The Skeleton (which Antec says is 'coming soon') is the first open air PC case (if you don't count every casemod that has been open…

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…

Duncan and I headed over to Seattle to chat with George Hageman, a local Seattle teenager who reaches more than 8,000 subscribers with his podcast on military history. Find out why he decided to do a podcast, why he chose this particular topic, and just how little equipment he needed to get…

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…

Some like it hot? Maybe- but most don't like their COMPUTERS to be hot, nor do we want them noisy. So we brought in expert Allen Nation to test out an experiment we found on Tom's Hardware where he actually submerged his CPU in a fish tank full of oil. Hey, even if it doesn't work it's at least…

What's cooler than one robot playing soccer? TWO robots playing soccer! I went down to maker faire and found these robots with a huge crowd surrounding them. They can flip, roll and fight. Check out this video and see how it's done.

Yesterday, Laura and I headed over with a video camera and smartphones armed and loaded.  Lego was coming in to show off their new robot the Lego Mindstorm NXT.  I've been getting into some robot building of my own lately (I'm still an extreme beginner) and had seen some buzz around the…

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 want…