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MAKE pal Everythingdigtal has his keyboard flashing to music, he writes – “Using an iTunes visualizer plugin from stewreo.de/keyboarddisco.html. I dimmed the backlight on the screen for better visibility of the keyboard, but the plugin can also flash the screen backlight with the music.” Link. Related: Keyboard disco – Link.
Here’s a nice case mod a Maker made for his father – “His dad has worked for United Airlines for 35 years and decided that this would be a great theme to use to make a computer for him to commemorate his years of service with United. “ [via] – Link. The bad (ironic) news […]
Here’s an excellent Mac mini addition to a Prius – [via] – Link. Related: Making a Macswagen. Adding a Mac mini to a VW: a pro tells us how he did it. Matt Turner is a professional fabricator and installer of mobile electronics. He’s been working in the industry for 12 years and has built […]
Amit (Sudden motion sensor / Mac OS X Internals book) has some code and article on controlling the lighting on a Macbook pro – Im sure we’ll see some type of music aware disco mod soon…. Here’s what you can do — “Retrieving readings from the ambient light sensor. Retrieving and setting the LED brightness […]
This PC case is made from a ton of dead old hard drives – [via] – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Rick020200 writes – “This quick project took five household network devices, plus their power supplies, and stacked them into a nice neat package. You can do the same for as little as $8.” – Link.
Wan writes “Based on the tensegrity coffee table article, we made a cell phone holder out of some sticks and fishing lines. We had a few false starts, a couple of complete failures, and learned a few things about tensegrity based structures from making this little scale model.” – Link. Related: Building Tensegrity Models. Make […]
