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The process starts with the use of a ‘Magic Ingredient’, a water-soluble solder paste. This ‘Magic Ingredient’ is available though DigiKey and is made by Kester Solders. Buying of the product in itself is interesting as it must be kept refrigerated and will only be delivered if ordered for overnight delivery. Since the material is water based it must be stored in a cold place (refrigerator) and only ‘keeps’ for a few months. Starting with a clean board, the solder paste is applied from the syringe. The paste comes pre-loaded into a syringe however, the reader must order the plunger for the syringe and the applicator tips separately. Link.

Here’s a Hybrid remote control lawn mower, it’s a little pricey, but it looks amazing and they seem to offer a kit. 22″ mulch blade, Gas engine, Alternator, Two independent rear motors with speed control, Zero Turning Radius, Rear wheel tree guard shield, Wireless electric starter and a FM radio control. You can also get an optional gyro. Link.

MAKE: Amends for issue 02: Page 116, 3b should read: “Reconnect the capacitor, switch the meter to DC voltage, turn off the input signal, and measure across the capacitor. Ours read 74 volts (V). The voltage rating on the capacitor is 75 volts, so there is not much margin in this old amp.” The title for the “Testing current/amperage” figure should be “Testing BFC current”. The title for “Testing Voltage” should be “Testing Output Current”. Link.

Someone is saying they got Mac OS X running on a Tablet PC. Apple’s Developer Transition Kit offers information, sample code, software, and hardware developers need to build Universal Binary applications to run on Macs using Intel processors. As expected, people are also trying to install OS X on Intel platform computers that they already own. Charles Alexander installed OS X on his Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC. The system runs. The digitizer functions. He’s run into issues with screen rotation, networking, USB, etc [via] Link. Likely a hoax, but one can dream.

Update that seems to fix a lot of the issues with the 650 folks have been reporting…Should I update? We highly recommend you take the time to update your smartphone. You will receive direct benefits in memory handling; in most cases, your data will occupy less memory, freeing up more storage space on your smartphone. Additionally, when you’re making phone calls, you should experience improved voice quality using the handset or a Bluetooth headset. [via] Link.

Awesome hack. You send a text message from your mobile phone to your POP email account. Your text message should containg the keywords of a song title (and possibly an artist name) that you want to hear. DittyBot finds that email (he checks Mail every 45 seconds) and copies the song name into a text file. The song name is then copied into iTunes and a playlist is created from your search. Next, DittyBot loads Skype (the internet telephony app) and begins calling your mobile phone. Your mobile phone rings and when you pick it up, you should hear your song start playing in all its compressed glory. Link.

What do you get when you mod an original My Scene Barbie with new paints, fairy wings, costuming, swords, elf ears and more? Really amazing looking D&D style figurines. These modded Barbies look like they’ve just stepped off the set of the Lord of the Rings. The Warrior ones are my favs. And here’s how the artist makes them.