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This is a nice, and cheap, way of making your own iMac. Of course the specs aren’t the same, and loading a CD would be pain, but it is an all-in-one computer. The Mac mini is so small that you can put it in a lot of interesting places, even on the back of a […]
Dan sent in this sweet networking solution that puts cable infrastructure behind removable base and crown molding – [via] Link.
Congrats to MAKE pal Jake von Slatt, Kinetic Steamworks, and Three Rings for the “All Things Considered”/NPR coverage. The piece was done by one Cyrus Farivar, a positively steampunky moniker, if you ask me. You can hear the piece at the link below. Steampunk Brings Victorian Flair to the 21st Century – Link
From the MAKE Flickr pool 0olong bring us this functional figurine – Stick his neck in your USB socket and he’ll unload his data at your whim. A pre-existing USB drive decorated with epoxy putty (a mix of Sylmasta A+B and SuperCarve) plus a couple of beads for eyes. Flash drives are so affordale now, […]
From the pages of MAKE – The Net Data Meter – Antique voltmeter displays current air quality from the web. In DIY: Circuits from MAKE: 11: Alt Vehicles page 133 – Link.
Perhaps you’ve considered dabbling in AVR programming on OS X, maybe even sharpen up on Unix syntax in the process. Unfortunately, installing the Mac/AVR toolchain can be a very frustrating experience to the uninitiated. The process involves locating and installing countless interdependent apps, tools, and libraries. But just before giving in and trying another OS […]
Matt Mets’s Thing-a-Day projects are getting ridiculous: Tonight’s project is a physical flag that attaches to my computer and goes up when I have new mail. First, I found biff, which is an extension to Thunderbird that proves a socket interface to poll for new mail status. Then, I wrote a little Python application to […]
