Here’s a good tutorial on making your own PCBs (Printed circuit boards). And below is our round up with the many other methods – Creating Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) is easy and fun for the whole family! But read the disclaimer — heat and corrosive chemicals are dangerous ;-) After you’ve prototyped and tested your […]
Aaron Tiensivu has posted the commands you need to know to shut off the Windows speaker beep temporarily or for all time. To temporarily disable the PC Speaker beep: net stop beep To disable the PC Speaker beep for good (until you undo this setting): sc config beep start= disabled Now you don’t need to […]
A Jacob’s Ladder is a high voltage “climbing arc” – MAKE Flickr photo pool member made one that lives inside an old Singer sewing box, build photos and more ahead! – Link. Related: Jacob’s Ladder project – Link. Jacob’s ladder as a 12-Gauge steel sculpture – Link. HOW TO – Build a five foot tall […]
If you had $600, not including physical bench or computers, how would you trick out your hacking workbench? Hack a Day’s giving away a prize to one of the best submissions. The catch: you have to spend all $600 in your proposal. – Link.
In 1985, Wim van Eck published a paper which described how the state of a CRT monitor could be reproduced remotely based on the device’s electromagnetic radiation. Van Eck or TEMPEST devices, whatever you prefer to call them, aren’t just the secret sauce in your favorite science fiction, though for some reason there hasn’t been […]
Dylan Kehde Roelofs creates these handblown light-up sculptures, complete with filaments and all. – Link.
HUGE collection of just about everything you can do to the super-popular and portable Eee PC. USB hub, GPS, Bluetooth, card reader 8 GB drive, 4 GB drive, wireless, FM transmitter, modem, RAM and more! – [via] Link.
