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Chris writes – “We have released a new section of our web site dedicated to designing tubular structures with SketchUp. We invite people to construct with the components we have on the site and those they make themselves and contribute to the project and component library. The initial fittings in the library were created using […]
Matt shows you how to keep a nice chunk of the Wikipedia on your iPod he writes – “I’ve commented now and again that I’d be willing to pay upwards of $100 for a handheld version of Wikipedia — one that I can sync via WiFi, then take on the bus and read to my […]
This site has a pretty simple interface for making your own ringtones – as always, Maker beware, I’m not sure if they store/keep your phone # or whatever… check out our related links for other ways to get and make free ringtones too… Link. Related: DIY ringtone projects – Link. Rington archives @ MAKE – […]
Rad, Quiet Earth has a good how-to on listening in to what’s going on over USB, great for reverse engineering weird USB doo-dads… – “This is intended to be a howto to debug usb transactions under linux, or simply to reverse engineer propietary usb stuff. If you need to reverse engineer a windows only usb […]
Many of the newer-ish laptops get hot, really hot – here’s one solution, an external water-cooler… Bard writes – “Introducing the Waldic (water & air laptop direct input cooler). This device is a dual mode home made laptop cooler. It was made for the purpose of watching movies without being disturbed by the annoying fan. […]
Ani Od Chai entered this BIG PHONE in the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contest, you don’t want a BIG 7 foot cardboard PHONE to win right? Get entering! – Link. Related: MAKE Halloween projects – Link. MAKE Halloween archives – Link. Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests! Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter our […]
AMXL shows you how to use a SAA7134 based TV card and Debian to tune in to all sorts of waves you can’t normally get with your TV… Looks like it will work with many of the TV cards out there too… – “If you have a TV capture card in your computer, you probably […]
