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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 […]
It looks like the folks from MacBidouille/HardMac got an LCD panel working with a VGA connector, they say they’re going to publish how they did it soon. Thanks Dan! – Forum (in French) & link.
Norwood writes – “Dark Blade custom computer case by Gianluca Tait (Trento Italy). Gizmodo originally noticed it back when it was just the cooling unit – that’s less than half the structure that it ultimately became. This was a multi-year build with work suspended after finishing the liquid cooling unit, and then resumed to the […]
Fred Langa made a Terabyte server for about $500! – “A short while ago, I received a challenge from a reader who didn’t believe me when I said in print that it was possible to put together a brand-new terabyte (1,000 Gbytes) file server for around $500. Well, you can, and I did. The example […]
Neatorama writes – “The Web’s ultimate list of artistic, funny, and just plain weird case mods.” – Link. Goodness, this is an incredible list.
Monopole writes – “Review of the new Nano-ITX EPIA-N8000E Fanless motherboard. It’s just a slightly too large to fit in a 5 1/4″ drive bay. But I’m sure makers will be stuffing it into just about anything else!” [via] – Link.
Wired has an article about some Makers who got tired of waiting for satellite radio to get to their phones / mobile devices, so they did it themselves – “Fans of U.S. satellite radio have been waiting eagerly for nearly a year to get XM or Sirius onto their cell phones. But as the two […]
