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October 25, 2005
HOW TO make a glowing Apple keyboard
Here's a simple HOW TO on adding a LED to an Apple keyboard. Arkku writes "I opened up the keyboard (three screws in the bottom), located the +5v and ground leads (red and black wire in my keyboard) and soldered a 3.3v/30mA 5mm bright blue LED to them, with a 68ohm resistor. To make the light reach the clear base of the keyboard, I also made a small hole in the white plastic that touches the clear acrylic at the bottom of the keyboard and taped the LED in that hole with electrical tape." Link.
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Oct 25, 2005 07:08 AM
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HOW TO - VMware player modification
Last week the free VMware player was released. It lets you run virtual machines, but not create them. Here's a HOW TO for creating your own virtual machines. In this example, a usable VMware image using the VMware player and FreeDOS. I think one day I'd like to make an OS jukebox, you'd put in a quarter and it would "play" any OS you want and then you access the net, etc... Link.
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Oct 25, 2005 06:57 AM
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Amazing case mod, the Dark Blade
The Dark Blade PC case was started in 2004, and it's looking like it's almost done. Made from milling a lot of metal, comes with 2 hydraulic pumps to keep it cool, it's gorgeous. This is the type of PC case design you'll see in some futuristic version of MoMa. [via] Link.
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Oct 25, 2005 06:57 AM
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October 24, 2005
Run front row on a Mac mini
Front Row is a new media center application from Apple, it's shipping on the new iMacs and you use it to manage movies, photos, music, DVDs and more from your couch - with a slick interface. No word if Apple will sell or distribute versions for that Mac you already have, but a couple folks have already hacked up a version of Front Row and have it working. Here's a HOW TO of sorts via Digg and here's a video over on TUAW + Flickr shots.
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Oct 24, 2005 07:40 PM
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Vintage Computer Festival
The 8th annual Vintage Computer Festival is being held on November 5th - 6th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The highlight of this year's event is a Homebrew Computer Club retrospective featuring a panel of original members of the Club including Steve Wozniak, Lee Felsenstein, and others. [via] Link.
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Oct 24, 2005 01:47 AM
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HOW TO - Apple eMac upgrades!
Here's a great site that shows you how to upgrade Apple's eMac. Overclock to 1.3Ghz, add a new hard drive, run dual screens and cut down on fan noise. These eMacs are usually pretty cheap on eBay too, so it might be worth grabbing one and sup'ing it up. [via] Link.
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Oct 24, 2005 12:02 AM
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October 22, 2005
R2-D2 case mod
Here's an incredible case mod made to look like the iconic droid, R2-D2 - the Maker used a white plastic barrel for R2's body and a weber grill for R2's head. It's not Jawa junk though, the unit cools a 3.2Ghz P4 running at 3.7Ghz to -38 degrees celsius. [via] Link.
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Oct 22, 2005 12:29 AM
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Bell Labs science experiment kits...
Wonderful way to learn about computing - these ought to be on the back of cereal boxes. CARDIAC (cardboard illustrative aid to computation) illustrates the operation of a computer without actually being a computer. It is a very practical aid to understanding computers and computer programming. [via] Link. We have a ton of great Maker-like kits on Make 04 too.
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Oct 22, 2005 12:27 AM
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DIY Monitor riser
Homemade ergo-monitor riser made from a half-inch thick piece of 24" x 48" birch plywood, some ABS plastic drain pipe (1 1/2" diameter), and some plastic spray paint. Very simple, under $20 and might save some neck pain. Link.
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Oct 22, 2005 12:23 AM
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October 21, 2005
The HiFiMac
Rob has a great Mac mod - He turned an old hifi system he got from a prop clearance from the local actor's workshop for $10 bucks in to a rocking Mac stereo system complete with the Sonic Impact Portable T-Amp. If you like this project, in MAKE 04 we also have Mr. Jalopy's LP-to-MP3 convertor cabinet. Link.
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Oct 21, 2005 06:00 PM
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The Macquarium
We've covered other Macs made in to aquariums before - and here's another great one using a Mac plus. The site details the choice of tank, lights activated via the Mac keyboard, heater and lot of interesting Mac-meets-aquarium hacks. The entire thing even fits inside the case. Thanks Liz! Link.
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Oct 21, 2005 05:49 PM
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Cardboard PC case...
This is really clever, it's an all cardboard PC case, you pop out all the perforated sections, fold it up and install your PC parts. With millions of PCs thrown away each year, this could potentially be a great way to cut down on the waste. While this one from Japan looks a little dull, there is a lot of art projects that use cardboard boxes, it's just a matter of time until these look extremely cool and perhaps will be artwork on their own. [via] Link.
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Oct 21, 2005 12:16 PM
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October 15, 2005
Simple monitor hack.. 3 monitors on their side!
Ric writes "I came up with a simple hack that makes a lot of sense... everyone wants more desktop space but can't afford expensive hi res monitors... well I ran across this when tinkering with my new video cards...I placed three monitors on their side and used rotation software to make them into one workspace... 3000 pixels by 1280 pixels... view whole web pages in one view... see US letter docs at 100% in one screen... its just magic and cheap." Link.
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Oct 15, 2005 04:03 PM
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October 13, 2005
Analog Computer Museum
Make pal Hans sent in this web-only analog computer museum. Analog computers have a long history dating back to prehistory, but with the recent development of the microprocessor these computers and their technology has been discarded and is quickly being lost to history. Their mission is to help preserve some of this technology and to provide a source of information for people that want to use this technology - Link.
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Oct 13, 2005 11:30 AM
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October 9, 2005
Messages from the virtual world to a real world wrist watch...
MAKE has "virtual land" in Second Life, a 3d virtual world where you can make anything, build things and anything else you can imagine. In our MAKE:land area you can preview our "virtual edition" of MAKE as well as watch movies and meet other virtual makers - and now, when you visit MAKE, in the real world, I get a message on my wrist watch...here's how we did it - You could also do this to get a text message or email on your phone...
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Oct 9, 2005 01:28 AM
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October 3, 2005
HOW TO add drive independent activity LEDs
Nice HOW TO from Zapwizard - This guide will show how to make a separate LED to show exactly which drive in your system is active. This modification is done without warranty, I did this to three 80 conductor cables without any problems, if you screw up don't blame me. First off this Mod only seems to work on IDE Harddrives, the two CD-Roms I connected (one Pionner DVD, and one Lite-On CD-RW) don't even use this pin on the IDE cable. The CD-RW LED is always on, and the DVD LED is always off. Link.
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Oct 3, 2005 11:55 AM
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Making a Replica-1 Apple-I Clone
Mr.Bill, MAKE pal and MAKE Flickr photo pool member posted his photo set of the Replica-1, a recreation of the Apple I using modern components, from Briel Computers. Great final result and construction photos. Link.
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Oct 3, 2005 02:44 AM
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October 1, 2005
Sony PSP running Macintosh System 7.5.5
Ryan St. Evens and Digg pointed me towards another interesting thing to do with a PSP "Through a combination of PSPbochs (x86 emulator for PSP) and vMac (680x0 emulator for x86) - Mac OS 7 is running on a PSP! Since it's an emulator running on an emulator running on a slow-ish processor, the whole thing takes about 4 hours to boot. But who cares?!" [via] Link.
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Oct 1, 2005 12:57 AM
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September 26, 2005
TOOLBOX: FLY pentop computer from LeapFrog
MAKE pal Chris Ford writes "The FLY pentop computer from LeapFrog is a new toy that Leapfrog is putting out. It is supposed to be released Oct 12. It recognizes handwriting and repeats what is written. I had the pleasure of trying one out last night and was absolutely blown away. It's writing recognition is exceptional (I have horrible penmanship and it didn't even skip a beat). It works as a scheduler and keeps your appointments. It does math (basic arithmetic)...
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Sep 26, 2005 11:15 AM
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September 19, 2005
Control Stuff With Your Mac
Andy writes "I picked up a Velleman K8055 USB I/O card the other day and was a bit disappointed that the only software that came with it was a closed source Win32 DLL and a simple control panel for the board. So I don't have to boot into Windows to play with it I've produced a Mac OS X application that talks to the board. It's open source too so you can write your own control applications". Link.
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Sep 19, 2005 10:01 AM
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