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This looks like a lot of fun! – ” Just plug any digital instrument – a MIDI-enabled keyboard, a MIDI-enabled guitar or MIDI-enabled bass, MIDI-enabled drums, or a MIDI-enabled wind-controller — into your PC or Mac computer, fire up the eJamming Station and we’re connecting you over the Internet to a whole world of musicians […]
Bball writes – “Lots of folks lately are interested in PC case mods with plexiglass windows, fancy 5″ bay gear, interior LED lighting, and custom fan grills. I think it’s great – anything to get away from the blah-PC. I have a number of computers in the house (too many, actually), but I recently spent […]
I’m sort of surprised modern home phones don’t have the ability to play MP3s as ring tones as a standard feature, might make a fun project – here’s one of the first instances for the “ring tone” from Popular Electronics 1956 – [via] – Link.
Sal writes – “…I had some big plans in store for the Mini-ITX box. The plans were, roughly, to install a hard drive, move to a more powerful Linux distribution, and add PVR capabilites to the system. Because the computer was already situated in my living room, making it into a personal video recorder was […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member command-tab seems to have scored a LOTTO / lottery machine, and dutifully did what any Maker would, install DOOM on it – the winning numbers are: I D D Q D – Link.
Eliot and Buffy write – “We reviewed the Neuros MPEG-4 recorder in January. Since then, we have been finding ALL kinds for fun ways to use this amazingly versatile digital recording device. The all digital, battery powered, MPEG-4 NeurosCAM was one of those ways :-) The setup is highly portable, totally shock resistant, and lasts […]
ContraptionMaker writes – “This project actually started as a need to switch from my speakers to my headphones and back with out unplugging anything….Since this only required a switch and a headphone jack, I had a lot of room left on the drive bay cover, so I decided to add a couple of more switches.” […]
