Almost Exciting!

Here is a website that has pictures of a PC that is totally made out of fans (66 to be exact).

Here is a site on how to make a blinking LED for your USB port, that looks very easy. I doubt I will ever do this, but it is neat to see people use their minds and come up with stuff on their own.

This PC really sucks!

Vacuum Cleaner PC pic 1

Vacuum Cleaner PC pic 2

Recently on the Make: Video Podcast:

Instructions for Making a (water) Balloon Flinging Siege Weapon out of PVC.

This weekend, make a human powered siege weapon. Using a human as a counter-weight and PVC piping for the structure, this catapult can hurl water balloons 100 yards or more.

Awesome.

Found @ Kottke : sweet paper airplanes.

I will do this. I will do this to someone. I will do this to someone, some day.

Cardboard office (prank).

It’s almost cool enough to do to myself, just to see what my coworkers would say when they showed up the next day and I pretended to work.

For example:

I thought Spartan might get a kick out of this one in particular:

I know it’s already been on digg for awhile, but wanted to link up this page at Financial Hack for displaying a pretty cool list of dollar bill / money origami. Each one attributed/linked up - so that’s cool, too.

If you’re really interested in doing some of these yourself, as suggested by a commentator on digg, check out Clay’s site. He’s nice enough to include instructions (for this awesome shirt, for instance), and several links to more info if you’re interested.

Blue team, go!

I stumbled across foldschool completely by accident. I couldn’t resist linking it up. Check this out:

foldschool is a collection of free cardboard furniture for kids, handmade by you. The downloadable patterns can be printed out with any printer. Follow the instructions and assemble a stable piece of furniture.

If you don’t know what “TARDIS” or “MAME” is, you might want to start here. If you’re excited at the thought of *putting* one inside the other, go directly to the intsructions.

If you’re too confused to continue, read this:

TARDIS stands for “Time and Relative Dimensions in Space. ” Doctor Who (in the TV show of the same name) uses a TARDIS to travel anywhere in time or space. His looks like a 1950’s booth for calling the police.

MAME stands for “Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.” It is an emulator that runs the exact code from arcade video games on a personal computer.

…an enterprising New Zealander named Simon Jansen has combined the two concepts into a very cool video-game apparatus. A TARDIS that runs MAME.

Just saw this over at Hackzine: Hypermiling: Hack Your Mileage.

There are a couple links to places around, including one to:

“…a mileage hacker who’s able to get 59MPG in a stock Honda Accord.”

And, from the article:

“It’s incredible, really, to think that by changing your driving habits, you can get better mileage in a standard car than is typically advertised for a hybrid!”

Definitely worth a look.