Jason writes – This amateur radio club provides kits uniquely packaged in tuna tins. When you build the kit, the tuna tin also serves as a chassis for your new project, complete with a nice label for the tin. Although most of the kits are geared towards QRP (low power ham radio) operators, Make readers […]
I know nothing about homebrewing audio gear, but this DIY 300W power amp, built on six LM3886 chips, sure looks bad ass. Here’s how the builder describes the project: My design uses a PCB to hold 3 paralleled 3886s (i.e. PA150), and then I use the DRV134 to bridge 2 of the PA150 PCB boards. […]
Hardware hacker extraordinaire Ben Heckendorn (a.k.a. Ben Heck) is using the guts of an Xbox 360 Elite for his next project, a 360 laptop. In preparation for this, he cracked one open, did some creative deconstruction, and has documented the results in two articles. Inside the Xbox 360 Elite – Link More about the Xbox […]
This looks like a GREAT book, it says it’s coming out in August and in PDF form, so should be any moment now? Essential Electronics for Software Folk: Thinking Inside the Box… Are you a programmer or computer enthusiast? Do you feel comfortable with methods, functions, and variables? Do you wish you knew more about […]
Here’s how to make a spiffy mood lamp from an IKEA lamp, source and schematics are included… – Link & translated site.
Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped is working on an upcoming book on Google Office: I’m happy to tell you I’ve started writing a book with O’Reilly’s Maker Media group, currently titled Google Office Hacks! The book will not focus on search, but on the existing & growing applications suite Google provides. It will provide tricks […]
Code, layout and PCB for a 32 output MIDI decoder – Link.
