Mobius88 sent in some great do it yourself water cooling resources from Overclockers: How cheaply can you cool a CPU with water? About $135 – 150. An introduction to High-end water cooling and more – Link. Pictured here, $15 PVC Reservoir from Mark Goudie.
At a recent conference I met Joel Greenberg and saw that he made a great homemade windscreen, I asked him to cook up a how to, and he did! – this fuzzy project can cut wind noise for a fraction of the price of professional models. – Link.
David writes – “Radio Shack sells a $19 TV game called “Hummer offroad Racing” which has a full Commodore 64 inside that can be turned into a full computer.” – Link. Related: Hacking the C64 DTV. Retro-gaming joystick easily converts into full Commodore computer emulator. MAKE 02 – Page 149.
Fred Hunt from Bit-tech.net has a great review of the Alphacool watercooling starter kit – “Take a PC full of expensive, complicated, electricity-driven parts, add about half a litre of water in aquarium tubing and plug it into the mains electricity supply. Up until a few years ago many would have laughed at such thoughtless […]
Gallery of stacked can art – He hates these cans! Stay away from the cans! [via] – Link.
Coolhunting points to two places you can buy a Rubik’s Sudoku – Link. I’ve been playing this on the Nintendo DS (Brain age) and I’m pretty addicted to it. From Wikipedia: What is Sudoku? Also known as Number Place, is a logic-based placement puzzle. The aim of the puzzle is to enter a numerical digit […]
Sony killed off the Aibo, but if you’re really hard up for some (headless) robot pet action, the TomCat looks pretty interesting – “TomCat is a research quality, quadruped robot that is moves at a speed of two body lengths per second.” [via] – Link. Related: QRIO and AIBO, the memories (huge photo gallery) – […]
