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What Can You Do With $100?

Posted by Cliff on from the frugal-hacking dept.

An anonymous reader asks "I was recently gifted with $100 and thought, 'What's the coolest geektoy--new, used, cobbled together, hacked--that one hundred clams could buy?' Home automation? Older PDA streaming client? Bathtub ROV? Basic stamp robotic kit? Something fun, something useful, something educational, something that says 'Look what I put together for $100.' Lemme know!"

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  1. Take a look at Make by lysander · · Score: 5, Informative

    Perhaps you should look at Make magazine. Their first issue had some pretty cool stuff. The aerial kite photography project might be doable for $100, if you've got the tools.

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  2. A bunch of stuff! by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 4, Informative

    Being good open-source citizen, you will immediately donate that $100 gift to your favorite OSS project! Thank you! Or Maybe just a few bucks.

    Or, you can buy a bunch of little stuff, like:

    Super-strong neodymium magnets. Magnets sound boring, but these things are really, really strong. Get the spherical ones.

    There's a whole host of cheap, unusual geeky projects at American Science & Surplus.

    Get a cheap computer. Buy a Used Xbox, and install Xbox Linux on it.

    Color changing lights. The color change is nice and smooth. Popular with the kids.

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