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Afternoon Linkage for August 4th, 2008

Are you ready for a rock show? We’re turning these links up to 11. A unique take on the sequencer Tinkerers, here’s a random schematic found on Instructables Ugh, a Wolfenstein movie? Please How do these people have the nerve to claim a bicycle is a hybrid? It’s a fucking bicycle! A $132 billion railway will connect the Middle East ...

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Credit Card Scans From Your Pocketed Arduino

Who would’ve thought all it took is an Arduino, a standard magnetic stripe reader, a display and a little code to be able to read the data stored on magnetic stripe cards such as your VISA card.� I can’t begin to imagine how this DIY provided by Instructables could be abused.� No one is doing fraudulent things with an Arduino ...

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DIY E-bola Isn’t What You’re Thinking

I wouldn’t call this a weapon but more of a raver toy for use at that illegal warehouse party. Dubbed E-bola, it’s made by attaching an LED throwie (LEDs and a battery + electrical tape) to a rope which is then flailed around your body. Looks great in the dark, especially on ecstasy. Link

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DIY: Custom Multi Use Dual-Sized Projection Screen

Instructables has posted a cool DIY project that provides more use out of that large projection screen cramping your den. The one they’ve built shows this suave painting simply by turning the screen around. Hey look everyone, it’s the great Steve McQueen of Bullitt doing his famous leaning stance and he’s right here in my living room! Why settle for ...

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High-pitched Noisemaker

For those of you in high school or college, I just made your day. This little device, found on Instructables, emits a 17KHz high-pitched tone that’s undetectable to most people over the age of 30. It sounds similar to a ‘mosquito’ ringtone on a cellphone and will drive your classmates and/or teacher NUTS. Just rig up the circuitry and the ...

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DIY Car Stereo Faceplate Fools Would-be Thieves

Quality car stereos are always getting stolen so a poster on Instructibles who goes by the name of sfgabe came up with an easy way to fool thieves into thinking that your sound system has already been jacked. Gabe, who says he lives in a “sketchy section [of] Oakland” where his car gets broken into on a “weekly basis” came ...

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Afternoon Linkage for July 15th, 2008

This Friday and all weekend, Ryan and I will be covering the The Last HOPE in New York. We hope you’ll swing by and say hi to us, but if you can’t, at least you still have these links to make you wet. Pump the bubbles up! Looking for something new in talk radio? The Cylon Toaster Check out Philly’s ...

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Thank Me Later: DIY Portable Air Conditioner

It’s the middle of July and that means those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are really feeling the heat. With my current apartment, I have no air conditioning in my bedroom and during the day it becomes unbearable at times when temps start reaching the 90s. I need a way to cool off. Thankfully, Instructables user Farhanians has posted ...

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DIY: Ard-e The Arduino Robot

Robotics can be an expensive hobby but cheap robot projects do exist. Instructables member Imadami has made a DIY robot with an Arduino brain that you can build yourself for under a hundred dollars. This remote controlled robot is stocked with a pan and tilt system that could be used to aim a camera or even a USB missile launcher ...

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