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Alan writes – “What do you do when your hard drive dies or is so small it is no longer useful? Easy, rip it apart and make something cool out of it! Here are 5 ideas to get you started. See project VIDEOS and PICTURES. (Includes the never before seen Hard Drive Oscilloscope)” – Link.
Christophe writes “After reading your article “Work on your PC -fast- HighSpeed PC tech station“, I decided to build my own. It is great for testing components. As you can see, no high tech materials here: mainly from scrap laminate boards, wood and aluminium profile and even a Tic Tac box ! It can be […]
Nospleen writes “I always use my laptop on my lap, and it tends to get really hot. I looked online for some kind of stand, but they were all really expensive. I made my own out of a scrap of plywood and some rubber. Now the laptop sits nicely on my lap and still has […]
Sam writes – “As promised to all of you we ran into at the Maker Faire, here are instructions on making your own retro handsets for your cellphone. I apologize for the delay in posting – but one of you friendly Makers out in San Francisco was kind enough to share the black plague with […]
Leading writes – “Austin Weber took it upon himself to make his own PowerGlove Mouse based on my previous design. In addition to cleaning up all the wires and using smaller circuitry components he also has a killer demo of the glove with Unreal Tournament. He mapped the in game controls so that his thumb […]
If you have a MacBook pro you can run an ATI Tools beta (In Windows) and speed up the graphics card and from to 310MHz (GPU) / 278MHz (RAM) to 475MHz for the GPU, 470MHz for the RAM. So if you like this sorta thing – go melt your lap! [via] – Link.
Kevin writes – “I turned my broken Grandstand Astro Wars handheld game into a Mame Controller for my PC.” – Link.
