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History Hacker Teaser History Hacker Teaser
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Video duration: 127 seconds

Here's a little preview of the show, History Hacker.

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The Sound of Electricity The Sound of Electricity
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Video duration: 95 seconds

Ever wondered what raw power sounds like? Bre Pettis, Raphael Abrams, Adam Meyer, and Deeanna Gunderson hacked together a prototype AC generator with a bike and Adam had the idea to hook the generator straight up to a speaker.

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Make Vampire Fangs with Eric Skiff and Bre Pettis Make Vampire Fangs with Eric Skiff and Bre Pettis
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Video duration: 299 seconds

Have you ever wanted to be one of the living dead? Well now you don't have to get bitten on the neck to grow fangs! Just watch this video on how to make your own vampire teeth!

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Workshop Cooking - Corkscrew Workshop Cooking - Corkscrew
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Video duration: 87 seconds

How do you open a bottle of wine in the workshop? With a drill, screw, vise-grip, and a broom-handle! Yay for levers!

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LED Pumpkin LED Pumpkin
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Video duration: 331 seconds

This was my first microcontroller project. These days it's a lot easier to get starter with microcontrollers with an arduino. If you're interested in microcontrollers, you should get Tom Igoe's book, "Making Things Talk".

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Dan Johnson - History Hacker Sound Recordist Dan Johnson - History Hacker Sound Recordist
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Video duration: 43 seconds

Dan Johnson, http://www.etsy.com/ view_listing.php?lis ting_id=13026808 showed me his recording equipment. Sweet!

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Survive the Zombie Uprising Survive the Zombie Uprising
Posted by: brepettis

Video duration: 166 seconds

Use Zombie Makeup to blend in when the zombies come. You'll have to disguise your smell! I got Erik Beck of Indy Mogul to help me out on this video!

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Take It Apart Tuesday: Hard Drive Destruction Take It Apart Tuesday: Hard Drive Destruction
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Video duration: 85 seconds

What's inside a hard drive besides zeros and ones? Bre Pettis opens one up to show you what you can find inside a hard drive that's useful. Make sure to watch this before throwing your old hard drive away, there's treasure in those hard drives!

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This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea.
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Video duration: 25 seconds

So my friends and I were playing shuffleboard with hovercrafts and we thought it would be a good idea to string a few hundred feet of surgical tubing between telephone poles and use it as a human slingshot. In fact, this was a bad idea. If I had strapped the helmet on, I would have broken my neck.

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Things - Polyalphabetic Substitution Cypher Slide Rule Things - Polyalphabetic Substitution Cypher Slide Rule
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Video duration: 89 seconds

You know when you had your notes taken from you by the teacher and read aloud in class? If you'd had one of Nick's Polyalphabetic Substitution Cypher Slide Rules (PASCSR) you could have avoided that! Learn about all the Things at http://brepettis.com /blog

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Things - Adam Mayer Explains The Teletype Model 15 Things - Adam Mayer Explains The Teletype Model 15
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Video duration: 164 seconds

Before the internet, people got their news over the wire by using the magical and mechanical powers of the teletype. Adam Mayer walks us through the workings of this teletype he just restored.

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Things - Raphael Abrams Made a Probe Thing Things - Raphael Abrams Made a Probe Thing
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Video duration: 81 seconds

Remember that part of Tron when the Master Control Program digitizes Flynn with a laser? Raphael Abrams is making a low resolution probe in which he will basically do the same thing with a few components!

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Take It Apart Tuesday: Robopet Take It Apart Tuesday: Robopet
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Video duration: 55 seconds

This week I'm dissecting a robotic dog! It should be easy, all I need is one screwdriver. What will I find inside?

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Things - Eric Michaud\ Things - Eric Michaud's Instant Fork
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Video duration: 53 seconds

Eric Michaud needed a fork and he needed one bad if he was going to eat his ramen with any self respect.

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Things - Adam Cecchetti Creates a Chess Set Things - Adam Cecchetti Creates a Chess Set
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Video duration: 61 seconds

Adam Cecchetti wanted a chess set and he wanted it now so he rapid prototyped one using inkscape to design it and a lasercutter to cut it out of acrylic.

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Things - Lasercut Flying Spaghetti Monster Ornament Things - Lasercut Flying Spaghetti Monster Ornament
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Video duration: 49 seconds

Who is the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Watch a laser cut a FSM out of acrylic! I could watch the lasering part of this video over and over and over!

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Things - Knitting Machines Are Wonderful Things - Knitting Machines Are Wonderful
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Video duration: 35 seconds

I recently lost scarves and so I fired up the knitting machine and with the help of Kellbot and Diana Eng, I had a scarf in no time flat!

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Things - Justin Day Made a Spooky Box Things - Justin Day Made a Spooky Box
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Video duration: 90 seconds

Have you ever wanted a box that could control anything? Justin Day created the spooky box as both a physical and virtual interface for working with processing, a programming language popular with artists.

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Things - Cathy Moore Creates Laptop Envelopes Things - Cathy Moore Creates Laptop Envelopes
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Video duration: 82 seconds

Are you worried about keeping your laptop safe during travel? Cathy Moore creates laptop envelopes. She originally made one for her daughter and now she finds all sorts of fantastic fabric and makes them. They've got quilting in them to pad them.

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Things - Deeanna Gunderson Created a Cuddly Dalek Things - Deeanna Gunderson Created a Cuddly Dalek
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Video duration: 62 seconds

Do you long to exterminate a friend with cuddly goodness? Deeanna created this friendly Dalek from a pattern on Ravelry to give to as a gift.

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Things - 1Aeon Screenprints a Multi-Layer Shirt Things - 1Aeon Screenprints a Multi-Layer Shirt
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Video duration: 90 seconds

Gabe Molnar, AKA 1Aeon, dreams a dream and then wakes up and makes a t-shirt design. In this video, he invites us into his kitchen to see the magic happen.

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Things - Cooking with Electricity Things - Cooking with Electricity
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Video duration: 85 seconds

Max and Raphael break out the jacobs ladder to zap grapes and cheese!

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Things - Jennifer Whalen Animates a Horse Things - Jennifer Whalen Animates a Horse
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Video duration: 90 seconds

Jennifer Whalen wanted a horse that could walk around and so she went and found a Muybridge animation from the 1870's and traced the shapes in inkscape to create a design. Then she lasercut the shapes and we used istopmotion to make them walk all over her... and a buffalo to walk all over Bre.

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Things - Eric Skiff Needs A Back-Saving Laptop Stand Things - Eric Skiff Needs A Back-Saving Laptop Stand
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Video duration: 89 seconds

Eric Skiffs back hurt and his neck was strained from hunching over his laptop. He needed to get it up off the table. Can he make his vision for a laptop stand a reality with a little help from a laser cutter?

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