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September 26, 2006
Ionic cooling gaming system
Jared writes - "I have wanted to do this project for a few years now. While it's was a relatively quick build, the time from the photo shoot to publish has been an extremely long and rocky road. Regardless in the end we have produced the first ionic cooling system for your high end gaming system. This system produces absolutely no noise and in fact has no moving parts at all. While this is a proof of concept it proves that you can get the CFM you need to cool a system efficiently with no moving parts and no increase in power consumption." Thanks Jason! - Link.
I'm not sure exactly how/if this works, so Makers take a look and post up in the comments.
Related:
More DIY cooling solutions for your computers... - Link.
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Sep 26, 2006 01:43 AM
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September 22, 2006
Matchbox PC
The PC case mod is a giant pack of matches... I want to introduce this person to the Match museum folks... [via] - Link.
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Sep 22, 2006 07:37 AM
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Homemade MT15 computer
Bill writes - "Have you designed your own CPU on an FPGA? That's for beginners! Or did you build one entirely from TTL chips? Amateurs. D. Mueller first built a 6502-lookalike from 74LS chips and EPROMS. Then he built "MT15", a 16-bit 0.5MHz processor ...using individual surface-mount NPN transistors." - Link.
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Sep 22, 2006 01:49 AM
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September 16, 2006
Wireless Card Hack
It's important to make what you have do what you want it to do.
My dell 600m running OSX 10.4.7 wasnt recognizing the intel 2200 wireless card, so I took apart my old linksys WMP54g PCI card to get the broadcom chipset based miniPCI card out of it.
The hard part was desoldering one of the antenna connectors from the Intel card and soldering it on to the Broadcom card. Chances are I'm losing signal because of my ghetto solder, but now OSX sees the miniPCI card as an AirPort card, so it's all good. - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Sep 16, 2006 01:25 AM
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September 14, 2006
Princeton Hacks The Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine
We will now show how to steal votes in a simulated election. - Link
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Sep 14, 2006 11:23 AM
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September 12, 2006
When 1980's PC design meets 2006 hardware
Atarien writes "What would have happened if technology had progressed faster than design? What would a 1980's PC look like with with current hardware? The mod built had been displayed in the exhibition as if it would be a new piece of hardware of PC Expo 1981, with fakes ads, tradeshow table etc. The French minister of Arts even saw this mod! The article contains more than 70 photos of the whole process, with French text. - Link & translated.
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Sep 12, 2006 01:24 PM
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September 6, 2006
Keyboard painting
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Digitalapollo writes - "I have always found beige keyboards depressing, so I decided to spice mine up with a coat of different colors of paint. Five colors to be exact. The bottom sports a flat grey with red flip-out stands. The top panel is metallic slate. The keys are painted with red latex paint (some with flat plastic specific paint). The new look makes the most bland Hewlett Packard look like something from the Matrix." [via] - Link.
Related:
Tons of keyboard projects - Link.
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Sep 6, 2006 07:22 AM
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September 5, 2006
Wooden Touchscreen Terminal
Cool project that combines the aesthetics of a wood-paneled den with touchscreen functionality.
The green button is a nice touch.
This is a 15" LCD touchscreen with a Celeron 633MHz board with 128MB RAM in a wooden case of my construction. The case also contains the PSU. The bottom part of the screen surround hinges down to allow access to the monitor controls. The button mounted on the base is the power button and indicator light.
It has no hard drive and boots using PXE from my server, then mounts its filesystem over NFS. It runs Debian Linux, xorg, XFCE4, Metacity and Firefox. The button on the left of the panel at the bottom of the screen pops up a screen keyboard.
Currently I'm a bit concerned about the amount of heat that builds up from the PSU (reaches 75°C after a while), an external PSU might be required. Also it tends to run out of RAM when viewing stuff on google video (no swap, no hard drive). - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Sep 5, 2006 01:55 PM
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August 30, 2006
Computer Museum
I visited the computer museum at RE/PC recently and took a walk down memory lane. Since I played "Wizardry" for about three years from the age of 10-12, old computers make me feel all soft, fuzzy, and nostalgic. What old computers do you have fond memories of? Photoset link.
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Aug 30, 2006 07:59 AM
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August 23, 2006
USB BBQ
What do you do with 6 PCI USB cards with 5 USB ports each? Chop off the ends of course and wire up a BBQ - [via] - Link & translated page.
Related:
Homemade USB cup warmer - Link.
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Aug 23, 2006 08:47 PM
Computers, DIY Projects, Electronics, Made On Earth |
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HOW TO - Run MacOS 9 on an Intel Mac
Dan writes - "Who said you can't use MacOS9 because you have an Intel Mac? It is completely possible with a little bit of tinkering, and a really cool universal application called Sheep Shaver... a full speed 'Classic' emulator for Windows, Linux, and Intel based Macs, that runs older MacOS's at shockingly full speed!" [via] - Link.
Related:
- Mac OS on a Nintendo DS - Link.
- Run Mac OS X on your Xbox - Link.
- Sony PSP running Macintosh System 7.5.5 - Link.
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Aug 23, 2006 06:50 AM
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HOW TO - Run your own network wiring
Wil @ Engadget has a good how-to on setting running network wiring around your home/biz - "Wherever you call home, it probably didn't come wired up for that most precious of home utilities: internet access. Sometimes wireless networking can only take you so far. Guerrilla network wiring might sound a little strong, but sometimes it ends up feeling like an episode of MacGyver, without the bombs. (Unless you count flaming laptops.) In today's How-To, we'll show you how to make your own cables and teach you a few tricks for getting them where you need 'em most around the house." - Link.
Related:
Pictured here, The 5-in-1 Network Cable from MAKE 01 - Nothing's worse for a network administrator than being without a needed cable. So make a single cable to replace the five you used to carry. The result: no more tangles and no more scrounging for a missing link. Page 96.
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Aug 23, 2006 12:07 AM
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August 22, 2006
USB powered power amplifier for your PC
Sciprog shows you how to make a USB powered power amplifier for your PC - "I was looking for simple solution how to increase the output of my integrated sound card of my PC. I don't know why, but the sound level of it decreased so I can't normally listen with my headphones. So this article is about how to increase the power of your PC sound card by using minimal amount of parts and USB power supply." - Link.
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Aug 22, 2006 12:50 PM
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Homemade analog gauge controller for PCs
Ben writes - "I love analog gauges, toggle switches, and other retro technology, so I had to find something to do with my small collection of antique gauges. The result is my PIC-based analog gauge controller, which takes serial data and displays it on the gauge. Right now it's displaying CPU usage from my PC." [via] - Link.
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Aug 22, 2006 08:22 AM
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HOW TO - Build a multimedia home control center
EiED's William Wong has an extremely thorough article on building a multimedia home control set up, he writes - "Home multimedia centers are popping up at stores but most are relatively closed boxes or are full blown PCs. Of course, engineers like myself love to get under the hood so this project is about building up a rather extensive multimedia home control center (see Figure 1) that is front-ended by Sharp's Aquos LC-37D40U 37-in HDTV (see Figure 2).
This was an interesting project that sort of grew. It is so large that I have split it into four parts not including coverage of each of the products used in the project." - Link.
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Aug 22, 2006 03:06 AM
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August 20, 2006
Free DJ mixing program
Here's a free DJ app for Macs with real time audio mixing and recording - "djay is the groundbreaking new software for Mac OS X. It takes full advantage of Apple's latest audio and graphics technologies, and runs natively on both Intel and PowerPC processors. It supports all common file formats, such as mp3, aiff, wav, aac, caf. With djay you can control and mix your whole digital music collection with two realistic virtual, interactive turntables and both record and transmit the audio in real-time over the Bonjour network to other connected djays. " [via] - Link.
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Aug 20, 2006 08:21 PM
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Make a video feedback screen saver in Quartz Composer (Mac)
Windell writes - "JellyBean (the cat) participates in an experiment in simulated video feedback. This is done by taking the video (in real time) from an iSight webcam, and processing it with a little Quartz Composer program. This is an example from a tutorial that I've written about getting started with Quartz Composer. " [via] - Link.
Related:
Elements of Interactive Art: A Creative, Mac-Based Introduction" class in NYC - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 20, 2006 01:59 PM
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August 19, 2006
HOW TO - Set up a Linux answering machine
Here's how to set up a Linux based answering machine from the Linux Hosting and Indian Users Group using a mic, phone line, modem and mgetty/vgetty - Link.
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Aug 19, 2006 02:10 AM
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August 18, 2006
HOW TO - Run a Mac on a stick!
This is neat, run the Mac OS (7.0.1) ona 32 MB thumb drive - " Running Linux, Windows or applications like Firefox, Thunderbird and AbiWord from a USB flash memory device is old hat. How about a Mac 128K or Plus on a USB key? Using a 'portable' Mac system you can: play with old system software and applications without dusting off your old Mac, impress your friends, or show others what the older Mac system looked like, use Mac on Windows and Linux." [via] - Link.
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Aug 18, 2006 03:35 PM
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HOW TO - Build an ASCII keyboard and encoder
Finally, at last! You can build a low-cost, fully professional ASCII keyboard and encoder "Popular Electronics April 1974" - Link - but wait, there's more, this keyboard showed up on the Apple 1 Computer - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 18, 2006 03:06 AM
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