Will has a VoIP wiring guide for folks who went Vonage, etc…. “In today’s How-To, we’re taking the diagonal cutters to the Ma Bell umbilical cord and hooking up our voice over IP adapter so we can use our old phone jacks. No soldering irons or caustic acid required. This time.” – Link. Related: VoIP […]
Rob took some photos through a microscope (without an adaptor) based on that post we had here – not bad! – Link.
Bruce “CrazyBillyBob” Maley’s R2D2 case mod – “Idea/Inspiration: Previously built an ATM Machine server mod and wanted to do something bigger and better this time around. Kicked around some ideas one day and came up with the R2D2 design.” [via] – Link.
Heathkit ad from Scientific American 1977: 8-bit computer, 16-bit computer, video terminal and a paper tape reader/punch – Link.
This is a cool (morbid) idea for ceiling art – [via] Link.
Nickp writes “You can use an ordinary digital camera to take pictures through a telescope or microscope, without any special adapters or lenses. The secret is to use “macro mode”, a feature nearly all cameras have nowadays. It’s intended to take closeup pictures of things only a few inches away from the lens, but since […]
Yay, shopping cart mods – from Tim – “Some tweaker near here likes to leave shopping carts on the railroad tracks. Trains smash them which does them no good. Usually. Today however I found one which the train managed to actually improve, by making it into a tasty little lowboy dolly.” – Link.
