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MAKE Flickr photo pool member Greg-o-ree made a pretty nice looking LCD photo frame from an old laptop, he writes – “I take so many pictures, it would cost a small fortune to print them all, let alone have enough wall space to hang them. So what I have done is to convert an old […]
Reversial writes – “After taking an ancient “Microsoft Internet Keyboard” apart, turns out it’s a rather simple mod to convert it to a wafer-thin, transparent beast.” – Link.
Here’s how to make some cool looking artwork that would make a great t-shirt or desktop wallpaper – Link.
If you’ve ever seen that soothing “breathing” sleep indicator LED on Macs and want to use that same pattern for your electronics projects, here’s one way to reverse engineer it using a MIDIsense (featured in MAKE 07) – Link. Related: Breathing status LED indicator patent – Link.
Pyrofer writes – “Recently I saw an article on a USB Optical mouse that had been modded to include a Nokia Colour LCD Screen. This got me thinking, The screen was quite usefull but why go to all the effort of modding a mouse, why not use the whole Nokia?” [via] – Link.
Vang1.net’s Leela casemod – “After finishing my Bender project, I just had to do another futurama casemod. I thought about what to do for months and had several good ideas, but finally I fell for Leela. I’ve always been a big Futurama fan and I was 100% certain I’d be able to do this, dispite […]
Steve from Finkbuilt has a clever way to make really nice play sets for kids, he writes – “Lately, Harlan (4) and I have been using google images to find textures, then printing out inkjets to use in the construction of simple carboard sets for our PlayMobil games. Kids seem to like these homemade buildings […]
