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Make Ice Cream Using Liquid Nitrogen

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Make Ice Cream Using Liquid NitrogenTechwareLabs has published a video us making ice cream using liquid nitrogen.

“Looking for some truly hardcore and high tech food. We have some insta ice cream we overclocked into high gear using LN2. Wanna see the chilli results? Check out our entire cool video. “

MvixUSA Giving Away Digital Audio Optical Cable

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

MvixUSA is looking for some basic demographic info, so they’re incentivizing folks by giving away a nice little digital optical audio cable. Just go fill out some basic info (2 mins tops), get a cable. Limited to the 1st 500 responses, and the deadline is Aug 15, 2007. More details over at GfG.

Turn Your Porch Light on at Sunset Automatically Using INSTEON

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Light your frontporch Hate coming home in the dark? There’s no need to stumble across your walkway or bump into scattered items left in your home’s entryway. With just a few simple products, you can use INSTEON technology to turn your lights on automatically at sunset, so you’ll never again need to fumble for your house keys in the dark.

Setting your porch light to turn on automatically at sunset is easy to do. Follow the included instructions to install the INSTEON SwitchLinc V2 Dimmer, which wires in like a standard wall switch, with an additional connection to a neutral wire. Plug the PowerLinc V2 Controller into a wall outlet and connect it to your PC using the included USB cable. You will need an Internet connection in order to download the free Smarthome Manager Essential Software.

The setup wizard will walk you through linking the USB module to the SwitchLinc that controls your porch light. Once you tell the software in what city and time zone you live, you’ll be able to set up the system to turn the light on automatically at sunset, as designated by your location. The software adjusts automatically for Daylight Saving Time.

You don’t need to leave your computer on in order to run the program: The PowerLinc V2 Controller module has on-board memory, so timers can be downloaded without the need to leave your computer up and running.

Products needed for project:

SwitchLinc V2 Dimmer SwitchLinc V2 Dimmer - $45.99

PowerLinc Controller w/ Smarthome Manager Essential Software PowerLinc Controller w/ Smarthome Manager Essential Software - $59.99

Source: Smarthome

Welcome to DIY for Geeks

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

DIY The Geeks have a new website! We have been planning to create a site for the creators and makers that are geeks and we’re happy to finally launch it. This site is dedicated to bringing you various projects for geeks of any subject.

Please check back often as we will continually update the site with new projects. Also, feel free to submit projects of your own.