Free electronics hobby software
Dave put together a nice collection of free software for electronics hobbyists – Link.
Computers & Mobile
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HOW TO – Make a rotate / pivot lcd monitor
Odrarek writes – This fixture is very usefull for rotate 90 degrees the monitor in order to see o read documents in in a portrait fashion, there are drivers for video card that support this modes, in my case i use it to read pdfs. instructables : rotate or pivot lcd monitor – Link.
USB foot keyboard – The footboard
Marc made a really clever foot keyboard, that’s right a keyboard you use with your feet… Link.
Building an embedded Asterisk PBX
David is doing a lot of great work with open source hardware telephony, check out the embedded Asterisk he’s working on… – The IP04 is a Four Port Embedded IP PBX that runs Asterisk. The hardware design is 100% open. I just built the first IP04 prototype (really built, as in soldered), and would like […]
More cell phone art
Joe makes a lot of cool art from cell phones… He writes – These sculptures are made from old broken cell phones. In this particular piece I made a gallery to hang the world’s smalles flat panel abstract artwork. The clamp is there to keep the cell phone’s display on. This phone is activated by […]
Cell phone mods
Mehmet Erkök customized cell phones by taking away most of the outer shell and replacing some of the parts, they look great! – [via] Link. Related: Portable Rotary Phone – pre-review – Link. HOW TO – More on Making Cellphone Charms – Link. DIY cell phone tracking – Link. Electronic junk cell phone charms – […]
HOW TO – Remote desktop to a Windows server through a firewall with Putty
Jason @ Hackzine shows you how to remote desktop to a Windows server through a firewall with Putty – Here’s a common scenario: you need to make an emergency remote desktop connection to an XP server at work, but you’re at home and the server is behind a firewall that blocks RDC connections. In a […]