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Norwood writes – “Dark Blade custom computer case by Gianluca Tait (Trento Italy). Gizmodo originally noticed it back when it was just the cooling unit – that’s less than half the structure that it ultimately became. This was a multi-year build with work suspended after finishing the liquid cooling unit, and then resumed to the […]
Fred Langa made a Terabyte server for about $500! – “A short while ago, I received a challenge from a reader who didn’t believe me when I said in print that it was possible to put together a brand-new terabyte (1,000 Gbytes) file server for around $500. Well, you can, and I did. The example […]
Neatorama writes – “The Web’s ultimate list of artistic, funny, and just plain weird case mods.” – Link. Goodness, this is an incredible list.
Monopole writes – “Review of the new Nano-ITX EPIA-N8000E Fanless motherboard. It’s just a slightly too large to fit in a 5 1/4″ drive bay. But I’m sure makers will be stuffing it into just about anything else!” [via] – Link.
Wired has an article about some Makers who got tired of waiting for satellite radio to get to their phones / mobile devices, so they did it themselves – “Fans of U.S. satellite radio have been waiting eagerly for nearly a year to get XM or Sirius onto their cell phones. But as the two […]
Xexter in the Maxconsole forums figured out how to run a NES emulator on an Xbox 360 using a Media Center, no sound – but the games run at full speed, nice! – “Found a way to add a menu for the roms list so you will have to edit the nes.htm and change to […]
But wait, there’s more! More music collaboration over the web! Tyler says – “NINJAM is a program to allow people to make real music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to his or her liking. NINJAM is cross-platform, with clients available for […]
