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Pat writes – “I needed a case for my computer with would blend into the living room, where it would be playing MP3’s. About this time, a broken CD player came along, and an unholy marriage resulted – The PC in a CD player was born! “ – Link. Related: Free TiVo: Build a Better […]
Check out Scott’s awesome Mac mod! – “This is my finished MP3 Music Player. It’s based on a Wallstreet PowerBook and a Bang & Olufsen Beocenter 4600. This has been a long process, I had planned to get it finished for last year’s Great Mac Mod Challenge, so it’s a year overdue.” – Link.
Jared writes – “I have wanted to do this project for a few years now. While it’s was a relatively quick build, the time from the photo shoot to publish has been an extremely long and rocky road. Regardless in the end we have produced the first ionic cooling system for your high end gaming […]
Todbot writes – “Ever since Bluetooth adapters for Roombas appeared, I’ve wanted to control my Roomba with a cell phone. All my recent phones have had Bluetooth. But getting a devkit for a phone was expensive and phone-specific. Trying to develop J2ME (aka “JavaME”) applications for cell phones has been a mess, especially for non-Windows […]
The PC case mod is a giant pack of matches… I want to introduce this person to the Match museum folks… [via] – Link.
Bill writes – “Have you designed your own CPU on an FPGA? That’s for beginners! Or did you build one entirely from TTL chips? Amateurs. D. Mueller first built a 6502-lookalike from 74LS chips and EPROMS. Then he built “MT15″, a 16-bit 0.5MHz processor …using individual surface-mount NPN transistors.” – Link.
It’s important to make what you have do what you want it to do. My dell 600m running OSX 10.4.7 wasnt recognizing the intel 2200 wireless card, so I took apart my old linksys WMP54g PCI card to get the broadcom chipset based miniPCI card out of it. The hard part was desoldering one of […]
