Homemade Star Trek shuttlecraft
David writes – “I’m building a life-sized version of the shuttlecraft used in Star Trek movies. Not finished yet, but you can see where it is going.” – Link. Awesome!
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NASA – Total solar eclipse, from space
Here’s a follow up to the solar eclipse post, a stunning photo from NASA – “The shadow of the moon falls on Earth as seen from the International Space Station, 230 miles above the planet, during a total solar eclipse at about 4:50 a.m. EST March 29. This digital photo was taken by the Expedition […]
HOW TO – geoTag images (assign latitude and longitude) to Flickr!
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Scalleja writes – “If you want to have the next feature in your photos “Click here to see where this photo was taken” just follow the following steps: 1.- Go to BeeLoop’s Lat/Lon to Flickr’s geoTags page. 2.- Move the map to the desired location and copy the geotagged text […]
Water cooling resources
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.
HOW TO – Make a DIY mic windscreen (Zeppelin) on the cheap
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.
HOW TO – Hacking the Hummer DTV game
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.
Alphacool watercooling starter kit
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 […]