Inventgeek has a slick DIY heatsink project. It’s completely silent, unlike the traditional CPU fan. With a $24 ion generator and a few items that you can pick up at the hardware store, the device is able to generate an ionic wind that pulls air through a traditional heatsink. The total cost is under $60, […]
In case you need any more encouragement to learn how to solder (or want to bone up on your craft), Hack-a-Day has a really nice tut (the Grand Guru of Hardware Hackerdom himself Forrest M. Mims III even chimed in a good word in the comments). How-To: Introduction to soldering – Link Followup: Soldering How-To […]
Here’s another fun real-time Google Maps mashup, inspired by flickrvision and twittervision. WikiPediaVision displays recent anonymous edits to WikiPedia, showing you the article being edited, and where on the globe the edit came from. It’s a nice way to passively graze interesting topics that someone else just got done thinking about. Why are these simple […]
An awesomely nerdy clock build from an MCU-controlled RGB LED and a computer cooling fan. Clock using a fan and a LED – [via] Link
Meatbot-in-chief of RobotsRule, Robert Oschler, sent us this extremely silly vid of i-SOBOT interacting with the Eyeball Widget on the Chumby. There’s something very Marcel Duchamp for the 21st century about the whole thing. i-SOBOT : World’s Smallest Chumby User! – Link
Mark painted his iPhone black and made his own rainbow Apple to give it a classic Newton-look – Link.
David writes in – Bernard shows us how to use an use an accelerometer as a mouse. This project uses a MEMS X/Y accelerometer, a PIC microcontroller and a old mouse. He also describes a trick for powering the new mouse with the unused RS232 serial control lines. HOW TO – Make an accelerometer based […]
