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Duke DIY is a series of instructional videos that help employees use the various programs, benefits, resources and services offered at Duke. In this video, faculty and staff can follow the steps to create an event and find a space to hold it through 25Live Tags:

Get acquainted with the Digital Multimeter – an engineer’s best friend! Learn how to measure resistance, voltage, current as well as test continuity using the Swiss Army knife of electronics. blog.makezine.com

Protect Your Data by building a custom recovery disk. Here’s a step by step tutorial that shows you how rebuild your system in the event of a catastrophic disk failure… and learn about Rescue CDs and Slipstreaming while you do!

Wicked Laser

I designed my little testbed engine so it can be inverted and heated from above, and I finally got the opportunity to try it out using solar energy. I had an old Fresnel lens from a large screen TV that I mounted in a frame and then put the engine hot end at the focus. [...]