New MacBook Most Unrepairable Laptop Ever?
In an opinion piece on Wired, iFixit’s Kyle Wiens, who tore down a new MacBook with Retina display and declares it: “Unfixable, unhackable, untenable.”
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Meet 5 Basic Survival Needs with a Busted Cellphone
The Art of Manliness has a post up about dismantling a broken cellphone in order to mine it for useful components that can keep you alive after you get stranded in the middle of nowhere. Tools include a compass out of magnet paired with ferrous metal wire, a survival signal mirror out of a layer of screen, and a small-game snare out of headphone wire. But my favorite is the arrowhead spear made from a circuit board.
SMS Text Scroller Powered by Android and Arduino
follower posted a new project up on Labradoc: an LED matrix display connected to an Arduino Mega ADK and an Android phone: I was working to get things working for the evening of Sat 19th (NZ time) but noticed an issue during the afternoon that stopped much in the way of new feature development. Once […]
Introducing Hack a Day: the retro edition
Love the news coming from Hack a Day Hack a Day hasn’t change its format since 2004. Even though MAKE has gone Web 2.0 with buttons using mouseover, and Instructables has fancy drop-down menus, Hack a Day has been a constant black background, green text child of the web circa 2004. A while ago, we […]
DIY Street View Kit
Have you ever wanted your very own Street View camera to capture the places not yet covered by Google Maps? With this DIY Street View Kit from German designer Jan Martin, you can now map your favorite walking trail, camp site, or remote location. The kit can be mounted on a car or worn as a backpack and comes with a custom image processing server and player software.
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Apple ][+ Teardown
Todd Harrison of Mesa, AZ, wrote in with his teardown and restoration of a ’80s-era Apple. The very first computer I ever used was an Apple II Plus in high school and I couldn’t get enough time on this machine. I was more than fascinated by computers I was obsessed. Every minute learning on the […]
New in the Maker Shed: IOIO for Android
We’ve had Making Android Accessories with IOIO in the Maker Shed for a while now and now we have the IOIO for Android to accompany it. Check out this amazing little device!
