Matchbox PC
The PC case mod is a giant pack of matches… I want to introduce this person to the Match museum folks… [via] – Link.
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Homemade MT15 computer
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.
Wireless Card Hack
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 […]
Princeton Hacks The Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine
We will now show how to steal votes in a simulated election. – Link
When 1980’s PC design meets 2006 hardware
Atarien writes “What would have happened if technology had progressed faster than design? What would a 1980’s PC look like with with current hardware? The mod built had been displayed in the exhibition as if it would be a new piece of hardware of PC Expo 1981, with fakes ads, tradeshow table etc. The French […]
HOW TO – Remove logos from your PDA / cell phone with sugar
Here’s a way to remove logos with sugar on all sorts of gadgets…Spanval writes – “This instructable is to show you how easy it is to remove some unwanted logo’s from cell phones and other plastic / metal products. The logo has to be of the type glued onto the surface rather then etched in […]
Keyboard painting
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Digitalapollo writes – “I have always found beige keyboards depressing, so I decided to spice mine up with a coat of different colors of paint. Five colors to be exact. The bottom sports a flat grey with red flip-out stands. The top panel is metallic slate. The keys are painted […]
