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Nick made a temperature-based computer fan controller that use a reverse-biased diode for temperature sensing – From a design standpoint, the only complaint I have about my Shuttle small form factor desktop is the extremely fragile on-board fan controllers. All three have died over the past two years after being used to regulate the single […]
The Neuros OSD is a great linux based media player you can hack up to do all sorts of interesting things, the latest is a YouTube browser… Neuros announced today that it’s releasing a beta version of a YouTube browser for its award-winning Neuros OSD. With this release, the device can now be used to […]
It’s about time… A server completely made from duct tape, four rolls of gray Nashua duct tape, a quarter roll of translucent 3M duct tape. The fan guard is made from duct tape too… – [via] Link.
Azog writes – We probably saved about $50, but spent about four hours. I don’t know if you can measure it this way, but it’s a helluva lot more satisfying to hack up your own case. Off-the-shelf case modding has become so mainstream, people don’t even need to pick up a real tool, so there’s […]
If you’re not getting an iPhone, or don’t feel like waiting days in line for one, Mark has put together a nice iNoPhone” guide for some alternatives… Link.
If you have an music player that’s not an iPod but want to use iTunes to manage the music you can use iTunes Sync from Binary Fortress Software… It also should work with removable storable like SD, etc… – [via] Link.
Perspective techniques to extract a 3D model from a painting, nice! – Constructing 3D models of buildings is all about extracting the geometry from images using photogrammetric techniques. As such, although it goes against basic geometric principles it also lends itself to historic reconstruction via referenced hand drawn images. Over eight years ago we used […]
