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How To Make Your Own Lava Lamp

October 6, 2004 by Phillip Torrone 8 Comments

make a lava lamp

i’m going to try and make the first ever usb lava lamp, at least i think it’s the first, but before i got started, i needed to see if there were any resources on the chemical formulas and the actual construction–turns out there’s a one stop site that has it all.

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Mod The Cuecat, And Scan Barcodes…

September 8, 2004 by Phillip Torrone 1 Comment

the cuecat, which you can still get on ebay and other places, was a neat little device that scanned in bar codes and with a net connection go to sites, offer up discounts, etc

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