The Ultimate DIY Tech Upgrades Guide: Build Your Own Laser + 74 Other Way-Cool Gadget Hacks

The Ultimate DIY Tech Upgrades Guide: Build Your Own Laser + 74 Other Way-Cool Gadget Hacks

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<i>Tech Upgrades</i> is for anyone who’s ever wished they could build their own touchscreen, brew up and use conductive ink, rig a mouse that you can operate with your feet, or make a rad engraved computer tower that glows in the dark—essentially, it’s for fun-loving nerds everywhere.<BR><BR>Used to be, whenever you had a computer problem or techie glitch, you went and found the nearest geek to help fix it. But now, there’s a new movement afoot—a band of inventive and self-reliant geeks who hack computer and software to solve problems (and, in some cases, just to have fun). From building your own computer out of a cereal box to modifying safety goggles to see infrared rays, from skinning your laptop with steampunk trimmings to divising a foxhole radio, and from setting up a projector for your iPhone to working out with a dumbbell of old CDs, this book makes being a nerd, well. Cool.<BR><BR> Activities include: <BR> Rig a DIY Polygraph<BR> Listen in on a Foxhole Radio<BR> Tack Up a Dipole Antenna<BR> Craft a Cell-phone Cantenna<BR> Hang HDTV-Antenna Art<BR> Mod an Xbox Controller into an iPhone Case<BR> Make Your Smartphone “Bounceable”<BR> Set Up an Electric Home Secretary<BR> Rig a Smartphone Projector<BR> Charge a Phone with Solar Rays<BR> Make a Tennis Ball Smartphone Tripod<BR> Turn Your Old Netbook into a Touchscreen Tablet<BR> Fashion a DIY Stylus for Your Touchscreen Device<BR> Protect Your Touchscreen with Thin Vinyl<BR> Stash a Flash Drive in a Cassette<BR> Make a Pink-Eraser Flash Driver<BR> Fake It with a Sawed-Off Flash Drive<BR> House a Flash Drive in a LEGO<BR> Hack a Foot-Operated Mouse<BR> Trick Out Your Computer Tower with Engraving<BR> Turn Your Laptop into a White Board<BR> Dye Your Laptop<BR> Make a Steampunk-Inspired Laptop Case<BR> Turn on Your Computer with a Magnet<BR> Shield Your Screen from Prying Eyes<BR> Print in Invisible Ink<BR> Keep Your Laptop Cool with Copper Coils<BR> Connect a Junked Out Typewriter to Your Computer<BR> Make Keyboard Thumbtacks<BR> Rig a Superportable Keyboard<BR> Create a Glowing Mousepad<BR> Put an Old Circuit Board to New Use<BR> Make a Laptop Stand froma Three-Ring Binder<BR> Build a USB Hub into Your Desk<BR> Stash Your Printer in a Drawer<BR> Mount Office Supplies Behind Your Monitor<BR> Organize Loose Cables<BR> Make a Floppy-Disk Box<BR> Get Pumped with a CD Dumbbell<BR> Assemble a Cereal-Box Spectrometer<BR> Make an External Hard Drive<BR> Build a Computer out of a Cereal Box<BR> Transform an Everyday Lightbulb into a Plasma Globe<BR> Light Up Sketches with Home-Made Conductive Ink<BR> Hack Infrared Goggles<BR> Decimate with a DIY Laser Cutter<BR> Create Glass Objects out of Sand<BR> Shine a Mini Flash Light<BR> Brighten Up a Standard-Issue Flashlight<BR> Beam a Batman-Inspired Spotlight<BR> Get Techie with Aluminum Foil<BR> Improvise a Tripod<BR> Mount a Camera on Your Bike<BR> Build a Time-Lapse Camera Stand<BR> Rig a Plastic-Bottle Diffuser<BR> Make Your Camera Waterproof<BR> Create a Peephole Fisheye Lens<BR> Adapt a Manual Ring to Your DLSR<BR> Snap a Self-Portrait with a DIY Remote Shutter Release<BR> Set Up a High-Speed Flash<BR> Build a Ginormous Camera