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Phillip covered this awesome homebrewed CPU before, but there’s now more info on the builder’s site and a series of videos showing it in action. Visitors to the 2007 Maker Faire Bay Area may remember seeing the Magic-1 and meeting its builder, Google engineer Bill Buzbee. The project is incredibly well documented on the site. […]
Although this is an old page, it’s still a clever idea. Mike Harrison was tired of having to crawl around behind his computer to mess with all the connections, so he turned the case around by mounting all the lights, switches, and drives in what was the back of the case.
Accidental blindness has never been so funny! You can download a high-res version from the always-entertaining Mike’s Electric Stuff. [via Boing, which is to say Boing]
These stylish and attractive small batch iPhone cases from EXOvault are machined from solid pieces of billet aluminum. They add a retro-futuristic charm to something already heavy on the futuristic.
By Kris Magri, engineering intern Thanks again to everyone who entered the Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest! As promised, our team at Make: Labs has built the winning gadget: the super-stealth Listening Cup designed by Grand Prize winner Nic. Check it out! Amid a raft of great entries that were extremely creative, the Listening Cup […]
João Silva’s latest project is to build his own computer from scratch, and it looks like he is off to a great start.
Nokia put on a project showcase for the finalists in their (mainly) European N900-hacking contest. The projects are pretty interesting and range from remotely viewable kite aerial photography to GPS-aided haptic navigation. Oh, and it looks like it was a good party, too.
