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February 10, 2006
MacMini Portable Project
Peter Green made a portable Mac Mini! "Why the Mac Mini Portable? Well, in short I wanted a machine that was really dinky to just pop in my rucksack, and while the PowerBooks/iBooks are pretty small, they still take up a fair amount of space. I wanted something with a very small screen that was more or less hand-held, and mac just don't do that [yet]." [via] Link.
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Feb 10, 2006 12:54 AM
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10 Guides for a New Ubuntu User
Jeremiah writes "As a new Linux user, there is a sense of frustration. You can't seem to get anything working correctly or you just don't know how. I know exactly how that feels, and after spending countless hours searching forums and guides, I have compiled a list of the ten guides I find most useful as a new Ubuntu user (and Linux user for that matter). So, here they are, not listed in any particular order." Thanks Jason! Link.
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Feb 10, 2006 12:23 AM
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February 9, 2006
Web browser mapped on 3D objects...
uBrowser is an simple Web Browser that illustrates one way of embedding the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine into a standalone application using LibXUL. In this case, the contents of the page is grabbed as it's being rendered and displayed as a texture on some geometry using OpenGL. You are able to interact with the page (mostly) normally and visit (almost) any site that works correctly with Firefox 1.5. Translation: Expect to see browser like Firefox in every virtual world really soon. [via] Link. I took a few screenshots, check'em out!
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Feb 9, 2006 01:47 PM
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Monsta-Mac-Attacker gets new face for 2006
AizeMashehu's writes "I built two fan controllers into a happy-face baybus for two sets of fan arrays so I can hear the sound of silence while the eight large fans chug-a-lug-lug. One knob on the new fanbus controlls the two rear 80mm fans blowing into the water-cooling radiator (in addition to the existing 120mm fan with rear-mounted speed control knob sucking air out of the radiator from the other side) and the other knob controls the 2 front 80mm fans that blow air around 5 of the fastest hard drives in the machine. You can see a close up as well as an explaination of the switch here and the main machine that this is wired to in the other photos in this series." Link.
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Feb 9, 2006 08:35 AM
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Gimpshop (Free Open-source Photoshop-like app)
Scott writes "For those who don't already know, the Gimp is a powerful, open source image editing application. For more info on the Gimp visit gimp.org. GIMPshop is essentially the same program with some cosmetic changes. The Gimp's menu structure and naming conventions had been a constant source of frustration for me because I was so used to Photoshop. So, I did what any hardcore graphics geek would have done. I hacked GIMPshop together." New version! Link.
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Feb 9, 2006 04:10 AM
Computers, Imaging |
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February 7, 2006
Air Cooled Mouse Pad
Tom sent in this fun how to from Jared and Dan "The idea for this project evolved out of necessity. Dan and I are both avid gamers. After a few hours of gaming with our normal high-end mouse pads you get a build up of sweat. The mouse and mouse pad becomes slippery and you start to loose your competitive advantage due to the loss of precision. While there are a couple mice on the market that have small fans in them to dry out your palm, they all have major failings in precision and accuracy. So after some thought and discussion we chose to build out our own custom mouse pad with a blower in it to suck the air down through the pad and away from the gamer's hand. The result is astonishing!" Link.
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Feb 7, 2006 03:02 PM
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February 6, 2006
Interfacing the PC's Keyboard...
Craig guide on PC keyboard interfacing... "Why would you want to interface the Keyboard? The IBM keyboard can be a cheap alternative to a keyboard on a Microprocessor development system. Or maybe you want a remote terminal, just couple it with a LCD Module. Maybe you have a RS-232 Barcode Scanner or other input devices, which you want to use with existing software which only allows you to key in numbers or letters. You could design yourself a little box to convert RS-232 into a Keyboard Transmission, making it transparent to the software." Link.
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Feb 6, 2006 06:50 PM
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Mac Mini case mod - The Mac Mintosh...
Eltoozero of www.destruc.tv writes "I built this case mod to be a nearly completely authentic looking Mac Classic, but with a Mac Mini inside, playing DVD's through the floppy and running OSX, except it's black." Eltoozero said he'd write up more about his project if there is interest, so post up in the comments! Link.
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Feb 6, 2006 01:43 PM
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Use Google Maps on a Media Center PC and XBox360
Google Maps Mania always has excellent finds like this one for MCE and Xbox 360 owners..."Here's a great tip for browsing Google Maps from the comfort of your couch using the Microsoft Windows Media Center. Colin Savage picked up the Google Maps API and the Software Development Kit for the Media Center to create this page. Colin explains how to add the page to your own Media Center so you can use it to browse Google Maps." Link.
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Feb 6, 2006 04:51 AM
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HOW TO - EVDO on Gentoo Linux
Nick-oshean in the Gentoo forums writes - "This how-to will discuss how to get EVDO on Gentoo Linux. Specifically Verizon EVDO using the Keyocera KPC650 EVDO PCMCIA card. Most if not all EVDO PCMCIA cards are just serial modems with usb-serial hardware. So they basically just show up as USB devices. They could have just been serial devices but I guess it's easier in windows to make it a USB device that converts to/from serial, maybe it's easier to write drivers for or easier to work with. But it makes it relatively easy for us to support it in Linux." Link.
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Feb 6, 2006 02:46 AM
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February 5, 2006
HOW TO - Notebook Akku Hot-swapper
Mattr's handy Instructable "The "Notebook Akku Hot-swapper" is a device which allows to exchange the rechargeable battery of a Notebook during runtime avoiding the need to shutdown/poweroff the system before the exchange." Link.
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Feb 5, 2006 11:49 AM
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Whisky bottle PC
Janos's awesome case mod! "I already had a powerful computer setup so I wanted something more quiet, small and low power consumptioning to function as a basic home server. I love to tinker with hardware etc. so I wanted to make something quite unique for a case. I have seen many nice and creative cases before but none of them were made out of a bottle. In November I bought an industrial 3.5" SBC board (with Socket370). For the project I selected a 1.5 litre Ballantine's bottle for case. That was the proper size and shape for the task at hand." [via] Link.
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Feb 5, 2006 10:12 AM
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External Hard Drive Modification
Chris writes "You can save money on an expensive hard drive enclosure, by adding a connector for a cooling fan, replacing some LEDs, and lengthening a power cord. A relatively simple mod, it fixes almost everything that makes this cheap enclosure so cheap, using only materials found in a nerdy basement." Link.
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Feb 5, 2006 07:16 AM
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January 31, 2006
HOW TO - Modify Modem to Control Appliances
Andrew writes- "I started this project when I had an idea to use a Mac to switch a solenoid on/off to control sprinklers around the house. Unfortunately I never took it that far, but I have been able to control a few other things, like a model train around the Christmas tree. Here I have documented how I did it." Link.
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Jan 31, 2006 09:00 AM
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DIY Mouse Modding
Greg from DIY has some tips on mouse modding "...there may be some interest in modding a mouse, so it is important to understand how they work. You may want to control the cursor for some sort of a project. A rollerball mouse has has a ball that rolls on the desktop when you move the mouse. This movement turns a wheel that has small spokes in it. There are two different infrared LEDs, and two different infrared detectors per wheel, and there are two wheels per mouse. One wheel controls up and down, and the other one controls left and right." Link.
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Jan 31, 2006 03:10 AM
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January 30, 2006
Home built CD changer contraption
Great Maker project for CD burning automation - "Building some sort of gadget that changes the CDs in my cd tray is something I have often thought about. Mostly in the context of ripping my CD collection or burning a backup of my 5 gig photo collection. My first thought was to come up with something extremely simple, with no electronics. Ideally, the motion of the cd tray would trip some sort of mechanism that would eject the CD from the tray and insert the next one. After months of thinking, I still hadn't thought of a mechanism that had a hope of actually working." Link.
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Jan 30, 2006 02:33 PM
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January 29, 2006
Burning visible images onto CD-Rs with data (beta)
This is a really clever idea, burn images along with the data on a CDR... Instructable maker Argon writes - "By carefully choosing the right 1s and 0s to burn to a CD, it is possible to burn visible images on normal CD-Rs. These images rely on the fact that the 1s and 0s created by pits in the CDs surface reflect light differently." Link.
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Jan 29, 2006 12:18 PM
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January 27, 2006
HOW TO - Make a Strobe Out of a Monitor...
Matthew writes "A project I'm finishing off involves a simple little front end that I've decided to implement using some DHTML. As I was reading up on JavaScript's setTimeout method as part of my DHTML research, an interesting thought crossed my mind: would it be possible to make a strobe light out of that old archaic CRT monitor sitting on my closet floor and such a weak (as in weakly typed) language as JavaScript? Well, I decided to give it a try and it actually worked out pretty well -- although it did give me a mild headache after I had the not so keen idea to stare directly at it for a few seconds. Here's the code you need to make use of that old dust magnet." Link.
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Jan 27, 2006 03:05 PM
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Software Function/Signal generator
Refik writes "Here's a free Funcion/Signal generator. Engineers and hobbysts need a function generator to test their circuits if they are working properly and it happens that they don't have money to buy a function generator or don't have time at the moment to build one! This function generator is a free of charge software that needs just a sound card in the computer!" Link.
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Jan 27, 2006 06:04 AM
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January 26, 2006
iTrip install on a Mac Mini...
MAKE flickr photo pool member Zapwizard writes "I don't have enough money or time to replace my headunit, or buy the Radioshark. So instead I am integrating a iTrip FM transmitter directly into the Mini. The iTrip was wired up, I choose to wire it to +5volts from the USB, as I couldn't find a reliable source of 3.3volts. A dummy headphone jack allows the iTrip to turn on. Later when I replace my headunit I can just jack into the headphone jack and get straight audio." Link.
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Jan 26, 2006 11:37 AM
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