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August 18, 2006
High(er) Rez screen swap on a Powerbook
This clever Maker swapped out the LCD screen in a 15" Powerbook with a higher resolution (1920 x 1200 display) - it should work in a new Macbook pro, and doesn't require soldering, just assembly. Interesting, you'd get the same resolution as a 23" Cinema display... [via] - Link.
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Aug 18, 2006 01:02 AM
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August 17, 2006
HOW TO - Build a 4 x AA USB battery pack
Here's how to make a 4 x AA USB battery pack for an external USB hard drive, Sitnalta writes - "Not long ago, I upgraded the hard drive in my laptop from an 80GB 4200RPM to a 120GB 5200RPM. Not wanting to let my old 2.5" drive go to waste, I bought a rather nice USB enclosure for it. Ah, but there was a catch. USB ports can only supply a maximum of 500 milliamps. The hard drive will need 550mA, meaning that the use of an AC adapter (or special USB cable) would be necessary under high load conditions...The way this HD enclosure "solves" the power problem is to include a special USB Y-cable that can draw power from two ports. So one port handles power+data while the other just supplies power. This means that sometimes I'd have to give up two ports for one HD (or use an after-market AC adapter.) Not cool...But I'm not here to complain. I'm here to awesome this problem out of existence. And we do that with some bits from Radio Shack, and, of course, a tin of Altoids." - Link.
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Aug 17, 2006 10:40 PM
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Laptop, before & after
Mqtthiqs writes - "I found a couple of those *really* old laptops at garage sales. They are 100% functionning, and the screen of this one is a wonderfully old school blue-white one. I *had* to do something with it... If you remove the whole plastic case, keeping only what really useful is (screen, motherboard and power supply), and if you glue the whole thing between two boards of acrylic, you have a wonderful display monitor that you can hang on the wall, to have the weather or some news in your kitchen...I just finished the hardware part, now i have to make the wifi work (it's a standard PCMCIA card), write the program that displays the informations... " - Link.
Related:
A bijillion laptop photo frame projects - Link.
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Aug 17, 2006 08:09 PM
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Made to order MythTV
You can buy a TiVo, a TiVo-like video recorder, or a Microsoft Media center PC, but who knows how long you'll be able to keep/record all your shows - so - I usually try and get folks to take MythTV for a swing, an open source alternative. That said, sometimes setting up a Linux box isn't for everyone, so if you still want to go open source but want to spend some bucks to get going, MonolithMC has made to order MythTV boxes starting at $650 - [via] - Link.
Related --- DIY MythTv'in:
- MythTV on Mac x86 - Link.
- Build your own PVR - MythTV 0.19 released - Link.
- MythTV invades realm of cable and TiVo - Link.
- Building a MythTV Box, Part 1: Hardware - Link.
- HOW TO - Install MythTV on your Xbox - Link.
- Building a MythTV Antenna System. - Link.
- SYSTM Episode #2 - MythTV - Link.
- Free TiVo: Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC - Link.
- HDTV on Your Mac - Build a simple high-definition video recorder and beat the Broadcast Flag. All you need is a $10 antenna, a $175 decoder card, and some free software. MAKE 02 - Page 45 (log in).
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Aug 17, 2006 07:30 AM
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August 16, 2006
HOW TO - Improvised amplified microphone
Ted writes - "I tried using a regular headset microphone with my Mac mini and wondered why my voice wasn't being picked up. Then I realized, after reading the Mac mini manual, that the audio input is line-level only. Since I don't have an amplified microphone, I decided to improvise one from an old cassette recorder. It should tide me over until I can get a USB headset." - Link.
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Aug 16, 2006 07:59 AM
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August 14, 2006
Free 3D CAD tools & tutorials
Alibre has free downloads (Alibre Design Xpress - free, Alibre Design Software -30 day trial) of 3D CAD software along with a great series of step-by-step tutorials on Instructables. So, if you've always wanted to learn CAD, check out the how-tos, get the software and show us what you MAKE!
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Aug 14, 2006 12:40 PM
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Vertical PowerBook as an ebook reader
Here's a clever way to read PDFs in portrait mode using a Powerbook - you rotate the PDF, run in full screen and put the Powerbook on its side - [via] - Link.
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Aug 14, 2006 01:48 AM
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August 13, 2006
Volcanos as MIDI music (MP3s)
Lukas at WFMU posted up MP3s of what volcanoes sound like when fed through a MIDI synth - "What do volcanoes do when they are not busy erupting? Researchers from Italy and Ecuador have recently discovered that these huge buggers are really composing music, much in the vein of Iannis Xenakis. Honestly, these scientists are just tired of looking at numbers and graphs all the time, so they turned seismographic patterns into musical scores and then play them using a cheap MIDI interpreter." [via] - Link.
Related:
- MIDI Control - Music equipment language isn't just for audio anymore. MAKE 07 - Page 158.
- HTML to MIDI - What does a site sound like? - Link.
- MIDI articles, how-tos, projects and more - Link.
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Aug 13, 2006 05:38 PM
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The Chaos computer
Pictures and history of the Chaos Computer - "The computer described on these pages was started in 1977 with the gift of a Signetics 2650 microprocessor by Mullard. Attempts during the previous year to order an Intel 8008 and a 2650 from Farnell had all proved impossible, and this 2650 processor was finally obtained after my father drafted me a letter which I sent to the Managing Director of Mullard. The 2650 was an 8 bit processor with 32Kbyte address range and 256 I/O locations. It has 7 general purpose registers and an on-chip return address stack for subroutines with 8 entries. It was not possible to make data access to this stack or flush it to memory. " - Link.
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Aug 13, 2006 03:50 PM
Computers, DIY Projects, Electronics, Retro |
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Mac and PC interfaces - 1984 to the present
Oh yah, this is the stuff - a collection of user interfaces from Macs and PCs starting from 1984 - [via] - Link.
Update: The screenshots in the link aren't that accurate - this site is better - Link.
Thanks MAKE reader EveryoneLovesIt.
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Aug 13, 2006 06:26 AM
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Digital picture frame
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Greg-o-ree made a pretty nice looking LCD photo frame from an old laptop, he writes - "I take so many pictures, it would cost a small fortune to print them all, let alone have enough wall space to hang them. So what I have done is to convert an old Laptop into a digital picture frame that randomly shows choice pictures from my collection. I will probably build a couple of these little guys, one to take with me for Wedding shoots so I can have something to immediately show how their pictures will look framed." - Link.
More:
- The $11 LCD Photo Frame? - Link.
- Cheap 'n easy digital picture frame under $100 - Link.
- Juicebox picture frame... - Link.
- Flickr Enabled LCD Frame - Link.
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Aug 13, 2006 03:29 AM
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August 12, 2006
Make a wafer-thin, transparent keyboard
Reversial writes - "After taking an ancient "Microsoft Internet Keyboard" apart, turns out it's a rather simple mod to convert it to a wafer-thin, transparent beast." - Link.
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Aug 12, 2006 06:16 PM
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HOW TO - Create groovy vector style art
Here's how to make some cool looking artwork that would make a great t-shirt or desktop wallpaper - Link.
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Aug 12, 2006 09:28 AM
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Reverse engineering the Mac 'breathing' LED
If you've ever seen that soothing "breathing" sleep indicator LED on Macs and want to use that same pattern for your electronics projects, here's one way to reverse engineer it using a MIDIsense (featured in MAKE 07) - Link.
Related:
Breathing status LED indicator patent - Link.
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Aug 12, 2006 08:33 AM
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Nokia cameraphone mouse mod
Pyrofer writes - "Recently I saw an article on a USB Optical mouse that had been modded to include a Nokia Colour LCD Screen. This got me thinking, The screen was quite usefull but why go to all the effort of modding a mouse, why not use the whole Nokia?" [via] - Link.
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Aug 12, 2006 05:54 AM
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August 11, 2006
Leela casemod
Vang1.net's Leela casemod - "After finishing my Bender project, I just had to do another futurama casemod. I thought about what to do for months and had several good ideas, but finally I fell for Leela. I've always been a big Futurama fan and I was 100% certain I'd be able to do this, dispite how much time and money I'd spend." - Link.
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Aug 11, 2006 06:02 AM
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August 10, 2006
Wood computer
Tom (High school student and MAKE reader) made this wood computer and documented the process from design to finish - Link.
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Aug 10, 2006 04:46 AM
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HOW TO - Diagnose an ATX PSU (Power supply unit)
Leo shows you how to diagnose your ATX power supply step by step before you buy new one when your computer doesn't crank up - Link.
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Aug 10, 2006 12:36 AM
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August 8, 2006
Ultimate boot CD
Handy bootable CD if you fix/restore old computers -
"You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:
- Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives.
- Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive.
- Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD.
When you boot up from the CD, a text-based menu will be displayed, and you will be able to select the tool you want to run. The selected tool actually boots off a virtual floppy disk created in memory. " [via] - Link.
Related:
Ultimate Boot CD for Windows - Link.
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Aug 8, 2006 06:16 AM
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August 6, 2006
HOW TO - Make an alien fossil computer mouse
Here's a 30 minute video how-to on making an alien fossil computer mouse - just need an old mouse, a toy skeleton, paint and a dremel tool - [via] - Link.
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Aug 6, 2006 09:34 AM
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