Aaron Tiensivu has posted the commands you need to know to shut off the Windows speaker beep temporarily or for all time. To temporarily disable the PC Speaker beep: net stop beep To disable the PC Speaker beep for good (until you undo this setting): sc config beep start= disabled Now you don’t need to […]
A Jacob’s Ladder is a high voltage “climbing arc” – MAKE Flickr photo pool member made one that lives inside an old Singer sewing box, build photos and more ahead! – Link. Related: Jacob’s Ladder project – Link. Jacob’s ladder as a 12-Gauge steel sculpture – Link. HOW TO – Build a five foot tall […]
There are probably a dozen projects here on MAKE that you could use to make your own light up skateboards, but to get inspired check out the Photo light board site. It’s not the future unless umbrellas and skateboards light up…[via] Link.
If you’re in NYC and work on green/ sustainable projects, bring them to the sustainable review with featured artists in FEEDBACK. Open to the public the Open Source Sustainability critique is on Saturday January 26, from 4-6PM. More @ E Y E B E A M – Link.
If you had $600, not including physical bench or computers, how would you trick out your hacking workbench? Hack a Day’s giving away a prize to one of the best submissions. The catch: you have to spend all $600 in your proposal. – Link.
In 1985, Wim van Eck published a paper which described how the state of a CRT monitor could be reproduced remotely based on the device’s electromagnetic radiation. Van Eck or TEMPEST devices, whatever you prefer to call them, aren’t just the secret sauce in your favorite science fiction, though for some reason there hasn’t been […]
WisePig tipped us off to this site full of jaw-dropping cakes from a Russian Bakery called Zhanna in St. Petersburg. No clue how these things taste, but they are impressively surreal to be sure. Link.
