Tag Archives: Projects

Hackintosh Diaries, Part One: It’s Never Been Easier to Build a Hackintosh

Posted on May 11, 2011 by admin

Inside my Hackintosh John Mahoney In the first of a three-part guide, we explain the basics of installing Mac OS X on a homebuilt PC. Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged apple, bios, building, hackintosh, hackintosh diaries, News, os x, personal, phone, Projects | Leave a comment

Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Quirkiest DIY Projects

Posted on April 29, 2011 by admin

November 1970 PopSci teaches you how to make a crossbow, a wooden scooter, a psychedelic light show, and more contraptions you didn’t know you needed DIY projects have been a hallmark of Popular Science since we started printing articles with pictures. Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged archive gallery, archives, crazy-inventor, delightful, diy, labor, Projects, psychedelic, the future then, the-wilderness, time, wilderness | Leave a comment

You Built What? A Motorized Easy Chair to Roar Around Campus

Posted on April 26, 2011 by admin

Getting to class just got a little faster Chris McIntosh’s first recliner was not your standard La-Z-Boy-it was electric-powered and capable of going 15 mph. Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged cars, chairs, easy chairs, furniture, may 2011, Projects, recliners, space, street | Leave a comment

Kinect Hack Makes Last Week’s April Fool Prank Gmail Motion A Reality

Posted on April 4, 2011 by admin

Lick A Stamp To Send Your Email University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies Google got us good on Friday with their “Gmail Motion” April Fool’s joke, in which awkward businessmen perform calisthenics in front of a Kinect-esque motion sensor to reply to emails. Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged april fool's, computers, hacking, institute, julie beck, kinect, kinect hacks, Projects, technology, video | Leave a comment

The Bar Is Open: A Slot Machine That Pays In Drinks

Posted on February 21, 2011 by admin

Spin Doctors For the hacking competition, the builders had three weeks and a $3,000 budget to convert a manufactured object into something with an entirely different function. Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged bars, games, herbert-hoover, machine, march 2011, pays-out-tokens, Projects, screen-displays, slot machines, turn-the-rotors, videocontent | Leave a comment

How To Make An E-Book Reader Case

Posted on February 18, 2011 by admin

Hardcover E-Books Dan Julian Follow these step by step instructions to make a cover for your Kindle or other E-reader out of an old hardcover book: 1. Continue reading →

Posted in Books, News | Tagged Books, diy, elastic, elastic-through, ends, from-the-inside, glue-the-ends, Projects, the-cardboard, the-inside | Leave a comment

Google Engineer Builds an Affordable DIY Telepresence Robot To Keep In Touch With Remote Fiancee

Posted on February 16, 2011 by admin

DIY Telepresence Robot Procrastineering Johnny Lee wanted a telepresence robot, but he didn’t want to pay thousands of dollars for one. Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged diy, hacks, pay-thousands, person, Projects, remote, Robot, robotics, robots, skype, telepresence, video | Leave a comment

Video: Princess the Hamster Gets an Armored Mech-Suit

Posted on February 7, 2011 by admin

Mecha-Hamster Crabfu The first-ever winner of PopSci’s Hamster of the Week award The Gakken miniature Strandbeest kit is a tiny upright walker bot that can be powered by a host of different sources: wind, solar, rubber bands, and more. Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged dan nosowitz, diy, mech suits, more-blending, Projects, seems-pretty, small-hamster, strandbeest, suits | Leave a comment

Harvard Extension School – Computer Science E-75 : Building …

Posted on February 3, 2011 by admin

Harvard Extension School – Computer Science E-75 : Building Dynamic Websites (2009) Instructor: David J. Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged building, david, english, harvard-extension, instructor, Projects, sections, vp6-512, websites | Leave a comment

3-D Printer Sets Record For Building World’s Biggest, Most Complicated Rubik’s Cube

Posted on January 28, 2011 by admin

Oskar van Deventer’s 17-by-17-by-17 Rubik’s Cube Shapeways They said it couldn’t be done, but Oskar van Deventer-a longtime puzzle maker living in the Netherlands-created it anyhow: a 17-by-17-by-17 tile Rubik’s cube that, as far as we know, is an unofficial world record for the world’s largest and most complex Rubik’s puzzle. Continue reading →