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Stephen needed a bluetooth case mod to functionally hide his snazzy phone! When i got my $1000/€900 I-mate JasJar last week I certainly wanted to do anything possible to stop it being stolen, So I came up with the idea of having a phone shell that has a bluetooth headset mounted inside so it doesn’t […]
Walter sent is this fun way to control your music, he writes – “Today I hacked my christmas present. A Wii remote controls my xmms mp3 player in linux now. Shake the remote and it switches to a new song. To get this working in ubunto linux you need the following packages: WMD driver 0.1.2 […]
DIGG just added a whole bunch of new features, including a new podcast section, the MAKE podcast is now listed with our past episodes so check it out and DIGG away… – Link. Nice work Kevin and gang!
Jordan is having a lot of fun (still) with the new Google patent search… “I really love this site. I love the splash pages that show random patents. I don’t know if you were a transformer kid, but I totally had this guy megatron. Its awesome to see it in patent form, and the sketches […]
Philip Greenspun has a really funny story on EE vs CS… Ok, hardware vs. software makers! Duke it out in the comments! “Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in […]
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 […]
