Portable typewriter laptop…
It’s hard to tell what’s going on here, it appears to be a typewriter crossed with a laptop + a morse code keypad of sorts, but one thing is for sure, it’s awesome and belongs in Brazil. [via] – Link & Japanese page.
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Radio Handi: Phreak Out! – Tue Oct 10th @ The Phone Booth
Bay Area (CA) Makers, this looks like a lot of fun (tonight)… – “Radio Handi is hosting a happy hour for phone geeks. Tuesday Oct 10th at the Phone Booth, 25th and S Van Ness in San Francisco. This is a phreak potluck. We’re asking everyone to bring an interesting fixed line phone (rotary phones […]
HOW TO – Free international calling… for the next 3 years?
Michael Gartenberg from Jupiter Research spotted this odd phone service for making free international calls, you call a number in Iowa (712-858-8883) and according to the site… “When the gateway answers, enter 011 then the country code and number you want to reach (mobile users, do not hit SEND – the call will go through […]
Mac OS X Panther on a 25MHz Centris 650
Danamania is attempting to run Mac OS X on an old 25mhz Mac, should only take one week to boot up, nice – “The victi-WMac used for this little project is a Centris 650, with 68MB RAM, a 25MHz 68040 and 4GB drive – JUST big enough to fit my existing PearPC drive image. I […]
Unlocking the full potential of your Mac Pro’s SuperDrive
Here’s how to mod your Sony DW-D150A SuperDrive drive (actually a NEC 4570) on a Mac Pro so it burns CD-Rs faster, adds DVD-RAM support, AND region-free DVD playing… [via] – Link.
Inside of hard drive (video)
Joshuamarius writes – “Simple operations performed by a hard drive with no cover, so that you can see what it looks like inside. This experiment was performed on an old hard drive, do not try this with newer expensive hard drives, it is a bit risky. “ [via] – Link. Related: Make a hard drive […]
HOW TO – Build a web server for 30 euros ($38 USD)
Sylvain writes – “Here’s how to use the ENC28J60 chip and a PIC microcontroller to build a tiny web server for 30 euros ($38 USD).” – Link. Related: A Match Head Sized Web-Server – Link. PSP Web Server – Link.
