HOW TO – Spray paint stencil for laptop
Here’s an Instructable on how to make a stencil, and custom spray paint your laptop. Link.
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History of super computers
CNET has another great picture series (with video) of super-computers starting with the 1946 ENIAC – “This computer, unfurled to scientists on February 14, helped launch the computer revolution and the U.S. tech dominance for 50 years.” Link.
A brief history of hard drives…
Picture history of hard drives on CNET – “What high-tech product advances the fastest? It’s probably the hard drive. The capacity doubles easily every two years and sometimes every year, faster even than the chip progress described by Moore’s Law. The first drives took up storage closets. Now, a 5GB drive can fit in a […]
AIBO for your cellphone…
Robotic dog for your phone – “Tea Vui Huang’s Aibo Memories is a 3D Playable Sony Aibo for Mobile Phones. The direction stick on the mobile phone can be used to make Aibo stand, sit, lie down and jump up. 3D animation of the 7 Series ERS-7M3/W Pearl White Aibo was designed on the Sony […]
HOW TO – Build parallel port prototypes
Hardwaresecrets has a goo how-to on doing projects with a parallel ports – “The computer parallel port is the easiest way to control devices outside the PC, like LEDs, lights and even home appliances. In this tutorial we will teach you how to use the computer parallel port to control circuits outside your computer. The greatest thing about printers nowadays is that they use USB connection. Thus, on the majority of modern PCs the parallel is not used, so it is available for us to use it to control circuits outside the computer box.” Link.
HOW TO – GameCube Linux Kernel
Jal writes – “This guide explains briefly the necessary steps to produce a Linux kernel suitable for the GameCube, using a Linux PC. Once you do this you can use linux on the GameCube to watch videos, listen to music, play some games…” [via] Link.
HOW TO – Use a phone LCD for you projects…
Refik writes – “Have you ever wanted to create professional looking devices, video players, show maps and GPS data on it? Your imagination is the only limit now. A DIY project on how to use a color graphic LCD display and how to design your own gadgets….” Link.