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		<title>How To Reverse Engineer USB Devices and Influence People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ladyada, hacker extraordinaire and sponsor of the Open Kinect bounty, has just posted an excellent article on reverse engineering USB devices. Using the Xbox Kinect motor and accelerometer as examples, she details every step of the process from identifying the device ID&#8217;s to building a driver and sending commands. It&#8217;s written really well and makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makernation.com/2010/11/17/how-to-reverse-engineer-usb-devices-and-influence-people/</link>
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		<title>Portal Pumpkin Sentry Gun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love Halloween. I love Portal. So it goes without saying that I&#8217;m crazy about this awesome Portal Sentry Gun Pumpkin, complete with a home-brew Erector Set pan &#38; tilt, made by Neil Fraser. Freakin&#8217; awesome! Read &#8220;Portal Pumpkin&#8221; for more details and pictures!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makernation.com/2010/10/28/portal-pumpkin-sentry-gun/</link>
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		<title>The Chipophone: An 8-Bit Chiptunes Electric Organ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Linus Åkesson is back with an amazing chiptune organ! I can&#8217;t decide what impresses me more: that he made it or that he can play it so well! Linus came up with an ingenious design, wiring up all of the original keys, pedals and knobs to a microcontroller that generates midi notes which are then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makernation.com/2010/07/22/the-chipophonea-an-8-bit-chiptunes-electric-organ/</link>
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		<title>Behold: The Dice-O-Matic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me disclaim that I&#8217;m a software guy, so I fully understand the deterministic nature of computer-generated random numbers. That said, bulding a &#8220;7 foot tall, 104 pound, dice-eating monster,&#8221; capable of generating 1.3 million random dice rolls per day is an extreme, to-the-max, over-the-top solution! In other words, exactly the kind of solution that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makernation.com/2009/10/09/behold-the-dice-o-matic/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not Dead Yet (I&#8217;m Feeling Better!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post to let everyone know that, contrary to appearance, Maker Nation isn&#8217;t dying the slow death of a neglected blog&#8230; at least not anymore.  I&#8217;ve got some exciting plans in the works for The Nation, far exceeding a simple blog, that I hope to be releasing soon&#8230; In the meantime, I&#8217;ll be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makernation.com/2009/10/09/im-not-dead-yet-im-feeling-better/</link>
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		<title>Craft: Amazing Demo in 8.5k of Atmel Assembly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you remember downloading the latest demoscene releases from back in the days of 2400 baud modems BBS&#8217;s, you know that demos were (are?) notorious for squeezing every last drop of performance from a processor with unbelievable realtime 3D graphics and wicked tunes. Seriously, a couple of those old Future Crew demos are still stuck [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makernation.com/2008/07/22/craft-amazing-demo-in-85k-of-atmel-assembly/</link>
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		<title>How-To: Pop-Up Sprinkler Head Filter Cleaner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I usually have to unclog a few sprinkler heads when I do my weekly system check, but I was in for a treat on Saturday when almost every single head was clogged! You see, the city did some work on the secondary water lines upstream from my house and, as a result, flooded my pipes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makernation.com/2008/06/25/how-to-pop-up-sprinkler-head-filter-cleaner/</link>
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		<title>Five Dollar Laser Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll admin it: I&#8217;m a sucker for lasers, especially when they&#8217;re synchronized with music! This little project, which reminds me of something I saw in high school physics, is a perfect solution for those times when you only have a few minutes to make your living room look like discotheque &#8212; and if you haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makernation.com/2008/06/22/five-dollar-laser-show/</link>
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		<title>DIY film: This is not a trivial undertaking.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No build info on this one, but the pictures pretty much tell the whole story. It makes me wonder if the renaissance of film isn&#8217;t on its way, where you&#8217;ll buy boutique films from guys with big, homemade machines like this one in their garages. Personally, I get goosebumps just knowing that someone built such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makernation.com/2008/06/18/diy-film-this-is-not-a-trivial-undertaking/</link>
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		<title>CD Changing Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time I head over to Matthias Wandel&#8217;s homepage (or his woodworking site) to see what&#8217;s new, I end up spending hours looking through all the cool projects! Seriously, what an awesome maker! I thought I&#8217;d share the project that originally drew me to his a site in 2003: a mechanical CD changer/duplicator made mostly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makernation.com/2008/06/18/cd-changing-machine/</link>
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