Scanner Built Into Book

Datamancer has put together this flatbed scanner built into a bound leather book. The scanner sits inside a sheet metal frame with the book built around it. There's really no practical use for this, but it looks super cool. I guess you could pretend to put a piece of paper in your book and then scan it. Perfect for spies, except that you'd have to walk around with a suspiciously huge leather book all the time.
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Instructables has a nice tutorial on how to create motorized skates using a pair of inline skates, an angle grinder, and a bag of 12 volt batteries. And just how safe are these? Well instead of brakes, this is how you stop: In this version, I just put trust in my sense of bala... / Continue →
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Gamer Morte Moya put together an MP3 player from an old NES controller, and then took it a step further by making a speaker out of an NES game cartridge. He says: “Some of you may have seen my NES Controller MP3 player. This is a companion project for it. I sometimes like to... / Continue →
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Instructables has a nice tutorial on how this guy put together an Office Chair Bike after finding a 35 pound leather executive chair, a Princess bike, and a variety of other parts in a dumpster. And I'm not saying it's the greatest bike ever built, but, well, it is. God himsel... / Continue →

