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How To: Increase the speed of an electric toothbrush motor

Need to rev up the speed of that electric toothbrush? Try using some rare earth magnets to increase the speed of an electric motor. Increase the speed of an electric toothbrush motor.

How To: Program a Wiimote using the GlovePie GUI

You can connect your Nintendo Wii Wiimote to your PC using GlovePie input emulation software and a bluetooth connection. Learn how to program the buttons and directional pad on your Wiimote using GlovePie's GUI interface.

How To: Program Wiimote motion detection in GlovePie

You can connect your Nintendo Wii Wiimote to your PC using GlovePie input emulation software and a bluetooth connection. Learn how to program your PC to detect motion from the Wiimote using GlovePie.

How To: Program double input Wiimote detection with GlovePie

You can connect your Nintendo Wii Wiimote to your PC using GlovePie input emulation software and a bluetooth connection. Learn how to program your PC to detect motion from dual input the Wiimote using GlovePie. You'll be able to connect two Wiimotes to your PC.

How To: Program GlovePie to calculate distance using a Wiimote

You can connect your Nintendo Wii Wiimote to your PC using GlovePie input emulation software and a bluetooth connection. Learn how to program your PC to calculate distance using the Wiimote's infra-red (IR) sensor.

How To: Program Wiimote button combinations using GlovePie

You can connect your Nintendo Wii Wiimote to your PC using GlovePie input emulation software and a bluetooth connection. Learn how to create scripts in GlovePie to program your PC to respond to simultaneous button presses and button combinations from a Wiimote.

How To: Program a Wiimote speaker with GlovePie

You can connect your Nintendo Wii Wiimote to your PC using GlovePie input emulation software and a bluetooth connection. Learn how you can program GlovePie scripts that will emit sounds from the Wiimote's built in speaker.

How To: Hack a 12-volt Battery for 8 1.5-volt button cells

Interested in getting 1.5-volt button cell batteries for pennies on the dollar? Kip Kay, of Make Magazine, is here to show you how. The trick is to buy Energizer A23s, each of which contains 8 1.5-volt button cells. For detailed instructions on this straightforward money-saving hack, take a look!

How To: Use the Wiimote's IR function to emulate a mouse

You can connect your Nintendo Wii Wiimote to your PC using GlovePie input emulation software and a bluetooth connection. See how to program scripts in Glovepie to use the infra-red sensor on the Wiimote to move the mouse cursor.

How To: Make infrared goggles

Kip Kay of Make Magazine will teach you how to turn welding goggles into infrared goggles with the hack he outlines in this how-to video. The entire project only costs $10. To replicate this hack at home and build your own pair of steampunk infrared goggles, follow along with the steps in this video tutorial. Just don't look at the sun!

How To: Emulate joystick input with a Wiimote and GlovePie

You can connect your Nintendo Wii Wiimote to your PC using GlovePie input emulation software and a bluetooth connection. Learn how to program your PC to recognize analog input or joystick/joypad input from a Wiimote using GlovePie and another piece of software called PPJOY

How To: Make a Lego flash drive

Here's a way to take a boring old flash drive and make it into a Lego flash drive by taking it apart and inserting into a Lego block.

How To: Control your PC with a Wiimote

Did you know that you can make a Nintendo Wii Wiimote function as a mouse or joystick on your PC? Here's how you can use your Wiimote as a PC controller using a bluetooth adaptor or card and some specialty software called GlovePie.

How To: Syncronize a Wiimote to your PC using GlovePie

If you're trying to get your Nintendo Wii Wiimote to connect to your PC via a bluetooth connection, you'll need to sycronize it before you can start using it as an input device. Learn some basic scripting and programming in GlovePie, input emulation software, to get your Wiimote up and running.

How To: Program Wiimote buttons with GlovePie

Learn how to program basic script in GlovePie to allow your Nintendo Wii Wiimote to function as an input device on your PC. Using GlovePie input emulation software and a bluetooth connection you can connect your Wiimote to your PC.

How To: Reset your Internet connection

Having Internet connection problems? Is your PC's net connection dead? Learn some steps you can take to troubleshoot and fix the problem including dealing with cables, routers, ISPs, and Windows network settings. Reset your Internet connection.

How To: Optimize Firefox's performance to maximum efficiency

Learn how to streamline and optimize Firefox and improve its performance and efficiency with a few simple extensions and by adjusting your Firefox preferences.

How To: Build an infrared night vision device

Check out this instructional video and learn how to build an infrared night vision device from a modified digital camera. You'll be able to see and record in night vision. For detailed, step-by-step instructions on replicating this hack at home, take a look at this how-to video. Build your own infrared camera with this simple hack.

How To: Hack together a widescreen TV

Learn how to make your own widescreen TV in 5 minutes. The process involves using two full screen TVs side-by-side with two DVD players.

How To: Use an RSS feed

You've probably seen that little bright orange "RSS" or XML square floating around on lots of websites and if you don't know what it is (or you do) and don't know how to use it, check out this video. Jimmy explains what RSS feeds are, how to subscribe to them and then how to read and use them.

How To: Create clear fullscreen videos to upload to YouTube

If you're making tutorials or any full screen capture video and uploading it to YouTube and haven't quite figured out how to have it NOT be blurry, then PLEASE check out this video! It'll solve your problem and save your viewers' eyes!

How To: Use advanced search commands to find Youtube videos

Here they are used to find anime episodes and movies, but you can use advanced Google commands to perform more dynamic searches on Youtube. Learn how to narrow or expand your searches and search for multiple items simultaneously.

How To: Send email attachments above the size limit

Sometimes you may want to send files larger than the file size limit that your email program will allow. Learn how to send larger files by email by using either free services on the Internet or free compression software like 7Zip.

How To: Access blocked websites and bypass proxy servers

Are you using the Internet at a school, library, or some other place that blocks or restricts web access? Mom and dad still trying to protect you from online predators, even though you're more than old enough to be one yourself? Learn how to bypass proxy servers that block access to certain websites by watching this how-to video. In this case it's done to access Myspace but this method can be used with any blocked website. Follow along with this video tutorial and never get hindered by restri...

How To: Remove context menus from Firefox

Learn how to make Firefox's interface more minimal by removing the help, view, bookmarks, history, edit, and file menu buttons.

How To: Build a solar powered USB charger

Want to stop wasting energy charging your USB devices? Transform some cheap solar-powered garden lights into your very own solar USB charger. For step-by-step instructions on replicating this hack yourself, watch this video tutorial. Just watch to see how to build your own solar-powered USB charger with a few solar panels from those garden lights and some floppy disk wiring.

How To: Make a USB-powered Furby

If you thought your Furby was annoying as is you should try this out. Learn how to modify a Furby to run on USB power.

How To: Increase the range of a Wi-Fi Antenna

Increase the range of your wi-fi antenna for about 5 cents. Check out this how-to video and learn how to double your range and signal strength to that of a $30 add on antenna Increase the range of a Wi-Fi Antenna.

How To: Download an mp3 off of a streaming link

To avoid waiting a long time to stream an mp3 file, just use an html editor to right click the link and download the file. Ron Hutton demonstrates. Download an mp3 off of a streaming link.

How To: Manage assets on Brightcove

This video shows you how to upload, encode and organize assets in the console. We have a new, faster and easier way for you to encode and upload content into Brightcove. It's a free desktop application called the Publishpod. If you have a small batch of files you need to upload, files that are larger the 100mb, or you need to encode your files into Flash format first, you should consider using the Brightcove Publishpod. Publishpod is a simple but powerful tool for encoding and uploading video...

How To: Create players on Brightcove

Create and customize players using single title and multi-title template options. This tutorial also covers the basics of player distribution. Create players on Brightcove.

How To: Spin cotton candy in a bottle cap

This confectionery hacking how-to video demonstrates that, with an electric motor, juice lids, battery and sugar, you can make your own cotton candy machine. Don't wait for a carnival or fair to get your next taste of sweet, sweet cotton candy. Watch this video tutorial to see this hack in action and to learn how to build your own bottle-cap candy floss machine.

How To: Trigger traffic lights to change from red to green

This instructional video shows how change traffic lights from red to green, using science, and without actually having to know anything about magnetic fields or properties! Save gas, time, and frustration in your car and during your commute! Works great! See the test results! Yay for Kipkay! The trick in this video hacking tutorial will teach you how to get green lights on your bike or motorcycle that is too small or light to trigger the traffic light.

How To: Access network security cameras

In this video you will see how to access network security cameras through google search engine easily!

How To: Build a laser microphone

Listen to conversations over long distances with a homemade laser listening device. All you'll need is a laser pointer, tripod, old pair of headphones, photocell, a recording device, and the step-by-step instructions in this how-to video. The creator of this video tutorial does not mention the need for sophisticated software. But the principle is quite sound. If you can figure it out, you can eavesdrop and spy on whoever.

How To: Teach kids about the internet

Welcome to the information superhighway! In this BrainPOP movie, Tim and Moby will teach you all about the Internet and how it works—from what an ISP is to how emails get from one computer to another! Teach kids about the internet.

How To: Teach children to search on the internet

Who needs books when you’ve got the Internet? In this BrainPOP movie, Tim and Moby will help you get the most out of your Internet connection as they give you some guidelines to start your research on the World Wide Web. Teach children to search on the internet.