Spider chip!
Spider chip from MAKE Flickr photo pool member Sephirot82 – Link.
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Target Disk Mode: transform your Mac into a firewire drive
If you hold down ‘T’ while booting a Mac, the screen will go black and display a large Firewire logo. In this state, called Target Disk Mode, your fancy laptop is magically transformed into a plain ol’ external hard disk. Connect it to another machine via a firewire cable and your Mac’s hard drive will […]
Buy and sell electronics @ Electronics lab
This looks interesting, an eBay of sorts for electronic parts – We are happy to announce that a new section launched today on Electronics-Lab.com. It’s the new Electronics Market, where you can Sell / Buy and Trade electronics components, test equipment and other electronics stuff. You can add your item simply filling a form without […]
Interview with Johnny Lee
Alan Parekh, of HackedGadgets, has a short interview with Johnny Lee, the computer engineer whose Wii remote hacks we (and everybody else on the InterTubes) have blogged about. Johnny also created the popular $14 Video Camera Stabilizer project featured in the premier issue of MAKE. AP: Your Wii projects have been taking the Web by […]
Cheap DIY laser cutter
Lamedust writes – This project demonstrates a simple hack to create a large format laser cutter utilizing all the scrap electronics you may have lying around. If you have a broken scanner or two, the cost can be just about 30 dollars for the entire project. Cheap DIY laser cutter – Link.
HOW TO – Make a WebVisitors blinker
Dimme writes in – WebVisitors blinker is a quick ‘n’ dirty Arduino project. Something very easy to do to get started with Arduino. If you have a web server where you live you can see when somebody visits your web site in real time. It gives you a warm feeling of knowing that somebody visits […]
HOW TO – Make a cockroach shocker
Mondo made an “electric roach motel” – Using a PIC for this device provides a lot of useful functionality. The timing for the power pulse to the inductor is critical to getting the best Zap from your nine volt battery. The longer the current is on, the higher the voltage. Once the inductor reaches saturation, […]