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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 […]
Victor writes – “These guys make quality sound cards. The op-amps on the cards are purposefully mounted in DIP type sockets so the owner can swap them out or upgrade them. Nice to see a company embrace the maker spirit by building products that allow the owner to tweak the circuitry!” – Link. Anyone use […]
The old Apple studio displays make excellent cases for putting a new computer inside, Toolman hacked up one pretty nicely, here are the photos, video and build notes… [via] – Link. Related: Nintendo Entertainment Center PC case mod… – Link. Commodore PET / CBM reto case mod – Link. Case Mods – The Ultimate List […]
Jeroen made a 1-wire temperature sensing system, he writes – “When the central computer/network equipment hall of Tilburg University got new climate control equipment, the Unix system managers were anxious to get relevant information (mostly temperature readings) fed directly into their Nagios monitoring system. Several solutions were available, but none of them really looked good. […]
