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March 12, 2006
The Bike PC...
I'm not sure if you ride this PC, boot it up (or both) - [via] Link.
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Mar 12, 2006 11:18 PM
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March 7, 2006
The Future of Interfaces Is Multi-Touch
Jeff Han gave an amazing talk and demo at Etech - pictured here, LCARS multi-tounch interface!
While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch systems enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, allowing for the use of both hands along with chording gestures. These kinds of interactions hold tremendous potential for advances in efficiency, usability, and intuitiveness. Multi-touch systems are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for collaborative scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.
- Video of multi-touch - Link.
- Photo gallery of the multi-touch gear - Link.
- Transcript of Jeff Han's talk - Link.
- I shot some video, was far away - but here it is - Link.
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Mar 7, 2006 07:51 PM
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March 6, 2006
HOW TO - Make an over-the-bed computer cart
Efemmeral writes - "Does your laptop overheat? Neck cramps from those poorly made computer carts from staples? This is a simple to make cart that will make you and you computer happy at the same time." - Link.
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Mar 6, 2006 11:37 PM
Computers, DIY Projects, Instructables |
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Monsta-Mac-Attacker
MAKE Flickr photo pool member AizeMashehu writes - "My Monsta-Mac-Attacker is an ongoing project consisting of a homemade hard-drive-selector-switch and homemade fanbuses as well as modded [liquid-safe] external water cooling and best of all it runs Mac OSX, Linux KDE and Windows XP!." Link.
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Mar 6, 2006 03:22 PM
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March 4, 2006
IR Audio bridge
Here's how to mod a pair of cheap wireless headphones to play music from a computer across the room - [via] Link.
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Mar 4, 2006 02:48 AM
Computers, DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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March 3, 2006
Homemade mouse warmer & other mouse mods
Keep your hand warm for those cold winter nights of web surfing with this do-it-yourself mouse warmer, just add 20 resistors and up the amp on your USB - [via] Link.
Related: Mousey the Junkbot by Gareth Branwyn. With a few spare parts, you can turn an old computer mouse into an amusing robot. MAKE 02 - Page 96. PDF here - Link.
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Mar 3, 2006 03:41 PM
Computers, DIY Projects, Electronics, Robotics |
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Turn a Mac into a microscope on the cheap
I really like the old Intel Play microscopes, you can find them on eBay for $20. They really weren't meant to work on Macs, but you can grab this tool (miXscope) and you're pretty much good to go. While the microscope isn't professional grade, it does have 3 zoom levels and a light, so I usually use it for some electronics and weird experiments - here are some picture of it in action, images it can take and features...
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Mar 3, 2006 11:34 AM
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Work on your PC -fast- HighSpeed PC tech station
I like this idea, but I think I might make my own - How hardcore do you think you are? Most people upgrade their PC every now and then - that's just part & parcel of being a PC enthusiast. For some who change their internal components frequently, case screws are an optional extra - far easier to just slide the side panel into place. Key components like hard drives are often secured - if that is the right word for it - with just a single screw, again, to facilitate quick removal." - Link.
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Mar 3, 2006 05:15 AM
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March 2, 2006
Read resistors with Resistulator
Simon writes - "You might be intersted in this OSX Dashboard Widget by Nicholas Zambetti Resistulator. It calculates the value of a resistor from the sequence of colored bands painted on the resistor. It also displays the corresponding color sequence when a resistor value is entered." Link.
Previously: HOW TO - Read color coded resistors - Link.
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Mar 2, 2006 09:41 AM
Computers, Electronics |
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Intel Mac mini: Take Apart Guide (RAM & HD)
Tom writes - "The Intel Mac mini's case is just like that on the PPC model and can be opened by prying upward with a sharp putty knife while working your way around the bottom of the case." - Link.
Related:
Apple and Makers modding minis - Link.
Making a Macswagen - Adding a Mac mini to a VW: a pro tells us how he did it. MAKE 03 - Page 54.
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Mar 2, 2006 08:50 AM
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Use your feet to control your computer
Dance Dance those emails away - "This is just one off-the-shelf piece of hardware we can use," A.J. Brush, the lead researcher on the project, said after demonstrating the technology. "Now we're looking at broadening, thinking about accelerometers or other things you could strap onto your feet so you really could be just sitting at your desk and kicking your e-mail away under the desk." - [via] Link.
You can likely make this yourself now, check out the free, open source StepMania - a free dance and rhythm game for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It features 3D graphics, keyboard and "dance pad" support, and an editor for creating your own steps. See their hardware section on dance pads and which ones work, then macro up your dance pad to become a keyboard. Other ideas: DDR RSS reader, iTunes visualizer with StepMania, collaborative & competitive avatar based Dance Dance Revolution / Stepmania in Second Life.
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Mar 2, 2006 07:53 AM
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March 1, 2006
Mac Mini inside a NES
Brent writes - "Well, someone had to do it! The Mac Mini NES was an idea born out necessity, and a love of the hardware modification arts. Necessity because I owned an internal DVD writer for my previous PC and, with the switch to an Apple PC, I was left to use an IDE to USB adapter (enclosures are expensive). This was to much of a ghetto looking setup for my taste. Most of all, the two tone 8-bit console has appealing style and is a famous icon of console gaming (not to mention, ideal dimensions for a desktop system.)" - [via] Link.
If you want to really retro out, check out Retro Game Heaven: The Atari 2600 PC. After fitting a full-featured wireless PC system into an old Atari 2600 case, you can watch movies, surf the web, and play hundreds of retro games. Info and article.
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Mar 1, 2006 03:23 PM
Computers, DIY Projects, Retro |
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February 28, 2006
Nintendo Entertainment Center PC case mod...
Here's a PC case mod made from an old NES! Lots of details if you want to build your own, from the Maker John - "I began the project by dismantling my NES. I removed all the internal components and, after a moment of silent reflection, eighty-sixed all but the plastic shell, power buttons, and rear output connectors. Grinding down the mounting posts cleared the interior space and allowed me to use some ultra-low tech cardboard cutouts to work out the interior arrangement." [via] Link to photos & how it was made.
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Feb 28, 2006 03:59 AM
Computers, Gaming, Retro |
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February 27, 2006
CD/DVD cases made with old 5 1/4 floppy disks
Jarabito show how simple and easy it is to use old floppy disks as CD/DVD cases - "With old 5 1/4 floppy disks you can make cases for your cd & DVDs. You can use colors too! I bought them in a garage sales (1000 floppys for u$s 2). Only needs scicssors and adhesive tags for naming them..." Link.
See past CD/DVD case projects - Link.
See more projects from Instructables - Link.
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Feb 27, 2006 09:07 PM
Computers, DIY Projects, Instructables, Retro |
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Encrypt your text files...
I store most of my important stuff in a series of text files, always have, and likely always will - on my Windows machine I've been trying this out - "Steganos LockNote will change the way you work with confidential notes. Application and document in one: the mechanism to encrypt and decrypt a note is part of it. Secure, simple, independent. No installation required." Link.
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Feb 27, 2006 08:23 AM
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Homemade water cooling for everyone
Tom writes - "A guy in Croatia is hand-building a water cooling system for a PC, starting with a mockup render, then building a huge copper radiator from scratch. He's just finished polishing the blocks for cooling the various chips." Link. The copper work is amazing!
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Feb 27, 2006 05:27 AM
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February 26, 2006
Flickr background changer for Windows...
John's Background Switcher periodically changes the background image on your computer (like every hour or every day) - it can use your Flickr account, any tags and just about any photo - very nice! Link.
Related:
The MAKE Flickr photo pool - Link.
All photos on Flickr tagged with MAKE - Link.
Flickr projects on MAKE - Link.
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Feb 26, 2006 10:19 PM
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Linux for old computers
StoneLion on Linux.com has a good article on putting Linux on that aging PC you might have collecting dust, he writes - "I took six distributions for a test run on an old machine, and also tried software that turns old hardware into a thin client. The bottom line: Linux is still quite suitable for older hardware. It might not turn your aging PC into a powerhouse, but it will extend its lifespan considerably." [via] Link.
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Feb 26, 2006 11:58 AM
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Print to a dot matrix web printer...
Here's a dot matrix web printer, it prints whatever you have to say on a printer in Switzerland. It has live video and audio so it's some weird retro / futuristic chat with atoms. Webtruck sent in this technical info & Link to print.
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Feb 26, 2006 05:40 AM
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February 25, 2006
HOW TO - Encrypted thumb drive and autoplay
Good how to on securing your data on a usb thumb drive - Simon writes "I have a Sandisk Cruzer Micro USB thumb drive that I carry around with me. Last weekend I spent a bit of time setting it so that all my data is securely encrypted using the some excellent open source software called TrueCrypt." [via] Link.
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Feb 25, 2006 05:39 PM
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