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May 19, 2006
HOW TO - Music sensitive blinking LEDs for your PC
Pastelero writes - "Listening to music on my pc (proudly using WINAMP), I was wondering how would be to have some leds blinking with the sound that came out from the P2 connector, so I decided to make a simple circuit to do that. It worked pretty fine, so I decided to write a HowTo telling step-by-step how to do it. Hope you enjoy it!" - Link.
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May 19, 2006 11:39 PM
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May 17, 2006
HOW TO - IR remote control your computer
Will shows you how to build an IR remote control interface for your PC, works with WinLirc and/or LIRC - Link.
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May 17, 2006 12:18 AM
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May 16, 2006
Vapor phase change cooling
Chris writes "This project has been many months in the making and I finally had enough time to put this thing together. For those people that aren't HVAC engineers, Phase Cooling involves using a refrigeration compressor to compress a gas till it changes phases to a liquid. This liquefied gas is then pumped into an evaporator which is place on your processor/GPU. While inside the evaporator, the liquefied gas changes phases back to a gas, and while doing this it sucks up heat and gets pulled back into the compressor, completing the cycle. Now that you have been educated in the basic principles of phase cooling, it is time to get into the meat of this article." [via] - Link.
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May 16, 2006 11:26 AM
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HOW TO - Turn an Indy into a dedicated webcam
Mark writes "This old SGI Indy with the marvelous Indycam is laying around my place for ages already. But, in a week where SGI themselves seeks Chapter 11 protection I thought it would be a good idea to get the dust of the Indy and make it into a dedicated little webcamserver, headless, no keyboard attached, just a power button to power it on and off and when it's running it'll upload the images automagically to your webserver using sftp." - Link.
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May 16, 2006 12:25 AM
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May 12, 2006
Cable management
Keener2u writes - "I wanted a way to carry around my hub bluetooth usb and memory card system while keeping everything manageable. Everything is set in velcro so if need be cables can be pulled and devices pulled. If the cables had not have been zip tied even the cables can be unwound from their position and wound back in. The memory card slot uses a mini usb end so I also have a mini-usb connector to connect to my phone and to my camera when downloading pictures. The pda on top allows for the earlier hack of showing an auxiliary display. " - Link.
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May 12, 2006 10:42 PM
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May 11, 2006
gdShutdown - Use Google calendar to shut down your PC
This is sort of interesting, and useful for something (maybe) - it's an app that uses Google Calendar and Google Desktop to turn off your PC remotely/scheduled - [via] - Link.
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May 11, 2006 03:25 PM
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HOW TO - Design, build, and configure a (low-cost!) backup/server monster
Sam writes - "I recently built a Linux-based backup server and I documented the process. We built a full-fledged server, installed Fedora Core 4 (not 5! waaaay to bleeding-edge), setup the server to serve the 4 backup hard drives (broken-up into 2 RAIDO arrays) through FTP (the protocol our software uses), and as a bonus we setup a 5th drive (smaller) to hold the OS, software programs, and a shared folder for generic files. The fifth drive was shared through SAMBA (so it could be accessed from Mac/Windows/Linux). Because we had a fairly fast CPU and we were (believe it or not!) tight on cash, we used software RAID0." - Link.
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May 11, 2006 05:40 AM
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A silent water cooled PC made with parts from Home Depot
Jake writes - "When the GPU fan on my PC's video card started to rattle I decided to make the quietest PC I could manage. The CPU and power supply are cooled by the thermosiphoning of water and the convective flow of air alone, no fan, no pump. And most of the parts came from the plumbing aisle at Home Depot!" - Link.
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May 11, 2006 12:13 AM
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May 10, 2006
HOW TO - Solar-powered Wi-Fi extender
Mike Outmesguine's Solar-powered Wi-Fi extender in the latest issue of Popular Science - "The promise of Wi-Fi is freedom--the ability to bring your laptop or PDA away from the anchor that is your desk and into your life. With most wireless routers, however, your life had better stop at around 300 feet, and forget about heading outside. Between the noise generated by other local wireless devices and physical obstacles like furniture and walls, chances are your Wi-Fi signal is little more than a whisper by the time it hits your backyard. So I built a box that can pick up that signal and boost it another 200 to 300 feet." - Link.
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May 10, 2006 06:24 AM
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May 9, 2006
HOW TO - Slingplayer on OSX
James shows you how to watch TV on a Macbook & a Slingbox - "I decided to make a project out of getting Slingbox setup today. Not knowing for sure if it would work on OSX, I got everything setup using only OSX and Parallels VM running Windows XP. This took about 2 hours to get everything playing together properly (mainly due to my Pre-N Router not cooperating, so I need to get a new WiFi AP) " - Link.
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May 9, 2006 10:56 PM
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May 8, 2006
The Silicon Graphics refrigerator project
Silicon Graphics filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection today - so now might be a good time to check out this old favorite - How To Turn a $175,000 High-End SGI Challenge DM Server into a Fridge [via] - Link.
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May 8, 2006 11:44 PM
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SketchUp drawings of midibox-based MIDI controller designs
Ryan writes "I've noticed a lot of attention about SketchUp happening lately, so I figured I'd send in some of my stuff. It's basically all conceptual, but it gets the point across. SketchUp is the only 3d modeling program I use besides NURBS-based programs, and only because it's so easy to use. I'd definitely recommend makers download this."
Send your Sketchup creations to MAKE! Or just post them up in the MAKE Flickr photo pool - also, we can host the files if you want to share "open source" your designs!
Related:
Workbench plans - made with Sketchup - Link.
SketchUp -> Google SketchUp now free... - Link.
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May 8, 2006 09:24 AM
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May 7, 2006
HOW TO - Fix an Apple Mighty Mouse
Macfreak writes - "My Mighty Mouse stopped scrolling down, only upwards. The cleaning method as mentioned on the 'Apple website' didn't solve the problem, so as a last resort: operation Mouse!" - Link.
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May 7, 2006 03:45 AM
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May 6, 2006
Letter holder laptop stand
Zengineer used one of those paper/letter holders to make a quick and dirty laptop stand - "I find myself using my laptop for long periods of time. I also notice that I am slouching when I use my notebook as it forces me to bend my neck to look downwards. Heres a simple notebook stand that will rise your monitor to a near eye level." - Link.
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May 6, 2006 05:55 PM
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iTunes PDF Subscriptions...eBooks
About a year ago we started sending MAKE sample PDFs through iTunes, we were hoping it would catch on and eventually become another way to distribute eBooks - and now there are a couple more, so maybe it will start to happen -- Wikinews print edition and Rick Steve's audio tours - [via] Link.
I just put a sample section of our new book The Makers in the iTunes (RSS) feed. Click here to subscribe in iTunes and download the PDF. Or just grab it. It should be there once iTunes checks our feed...
Related:
- MAKE @ iTunes - Link.
- Screenshot of MAKE @ iTunes with PDFs, audio, video, etc - Link.
- Using PDFs in iTunes... - Link.
- iTunes 4.9 supports PDF enclosures - Link.
- MAKE Magazine volume 03! FREE PDF! - Link.
- Mousey the Junkbot PDF (first PDF subscription in iTunes? 7/2005) - Link.
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May 6, 2006 09:52 AM
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May 5, 2006
HOW TO - Hacking a USB Keyboard (Make a typewriter keyboard)
Randofo writes - "How to hack a USB keyboard or any keyboard for that matter. Send inputs into the computer without a pesky microcontroller. Once you have a hacked keyboard you can use it for a number of functions and attach a number of different types of switches. You can build your own typewriter keyboard (video here)... You can use a photocell as a switch. You can hook it up to a capacitance sensor and use just about anything to trigger an event in a Flash movie. You can hook it up to some floor switches and develop your own DDR game." - Link.
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May 5, 2006 10:01 PM
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Hammock made with Sketchup...
MonkeyHumper writes - "My wife wanted a hammock for the backyard, and Sketchup came to the rescue. I found the easiest way to build in Sketchup is to build a bunch of standard lumber sizes and use them over and over again. I can't wait to make it... " - Link. Check out other projects that are made (or will be made) with Sketchup here - Link.
Since Sketchup went free, we're seeing a lot of new projects being posted - eventually you might be able to send off your files to a fabricator, lumber yard or whatever supplier - the stuff shows up, you make it! How cool will that be! Maker-aware suppliers could have all their parts/tools/things available as Sketchup components so we can use them to build our projects (and eventually order).
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May 5, 2006 08:49 PM
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OPENSTEP on Thinkpad 755C
Running Mac OS X on Intel is so 3 months ago, Brian is running OPENSTEP on a Thinkpad 755C - "No major trickery to get this to work... just installed a SCSI CD-ROM drive into the ThinkPad Dock and did the install. I do have to pass the "rootdev=hd0a" arg when I boot up, though." - Link.
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May 5, 2006 07:31 PM
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Dead Hard drive projects
Alan writes - "What do you do when your hard drive dies or is so small it is no longer useful? Easy, rip it apart and make something cool out of it! Here are 5 ideas to get you started. See project VIDEOS and PICTURES. (Includes the never before seen Hard Drive Oscilloscope)" - Link.
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May 5, 2006 09:10 AM
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May 2, 2006
Homemade PC Tech Station
Christophe writes "After reading your article "Work on your PC -fast- HighSpeed PC tech station", I decided to build my own. It is great for testing components. As you can see, no high tech materials here: mainly from scrap laminate boards, wood and aluminium profile and even a Tic Tac box ! It can be improved but this one cost me to build under $ 10.00 USD." - Link.
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May 2, 2006 03:08 PM
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