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Gnomic writes – “On eBay – An original PC! The 5100 was the first IBM ‘portable.’ I learned APL on one of these babies. Alas, too much for my modest budget” – Link. Perfect gift for the time traveling John Titors.
Here’s how to make incredible flowers from old computer parts – this one was made with: 1 dead hard drive 1 floppy drive 9 floppy disks large gauge copper wire thin gauge copper wire brass (or any thin metal) sheet Junk box flowers – Link. Related: Mona Lisa from computer parts – Link. Junk to […]
Macaba writes – “Ages ago, I was toying with the idea of making a DIY in-air PC mouse, and had designed it in my mind. A few days ago I saw the Wii-remote bluetooth PC controller hack and thought that it was good time to throw together my own version. As shown on http://wiihacks.blogspot.com/ the […]
Erik writes – “I created this and a few other iCurve style stands in wood. I experimented with cherry, maple, oak and red oak. No stain was used, only lacquer, so the original beauty of the wood comes out. The trick part was keeping the notebook from sliding down the stand. Two short pieces of […]
Randofo seems to have updated his typewriter to keyboard project, check it out… – Link. Related: HOW TO – Hacking a USB Keyboard (Make a typewriter keyboard) – Link. Portable typewriter laptop… – Link. The ElectriClerk – Link.
A few of our Mac toting makers sent in this tip on opening the new Microsoft Office doc format .docx (it doesn’t open natively now)… Alex writes – “I received one yesterday. Initial tests proved futile- no application wanted anything to do with it. But, after a little trial and error, I was able to […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member nearlynormal007 shows you how to watercool a laptop on the cheap!…or pretty much anything – “” – Link & photos. Related: A silent water cooled PC made with parts from Home Depot – Link. Ford Festiva radiator water cools PC! – Link. Watercooled Xbox 360 – Link. Fully internal watercooled […]
