Threat Level recently ran a story about Kevin Bankston, the EFF attorney who decided to test the take-down procedure for privacy-infringing photos within Google’s Street View. Initially, Google required a wealth of information before removing the photo, but they changed their policy, requiring only your name and the location the image was taken. Kevin submitted […]
The great thing about the MacBook is that it’s one of the first Apple notebooks in a long time that includes a user-replaceable hard drive. And it’s incredibly easy: remove three screws, pull the drive out, put the new drive in the old drive’s caddy, and plug it back in. That part takes about five […]
If you want to share an external drive between a Mac and a Windows machine, you typically format the drive with a FAT32 partition. One problem you’ll run into, however, is that you can run into a file size limit if you’re dealing with really large files. NTFS gets around this limitation, but unfortunately the […]
J_Hodgie writes – This Instructable will show you how to make a device that can float almost any object with a magnet in it. It is much like the floating globes you can buy, except it works by balancing the forces of permanent magnets with electromagnets, rather then simply using combinations of permanent magnets. This […]
Charile writes – Phil, you should check out this cool Apple II stop motion rig one of my commenters made in the 80’s, I think it’s right up your alley. He had the computer control the camera and a spinning wheel of color filters. The computer rendered one frame in monochrome for each color of […]
If a lot of your day is spent building and rebuilding software, you want to know at a glance how things are going. You could walk over to the monitor and look at the text symbols that humans use to communicate, or you could glance at a softly glowing orb that lets you know what’s […]
Tuomo writes – This experiment is based on an example in Nicolas Collins’ book: “Handmade Electronic Music, The Art of Hardware Hacking”. The motivation for this experiment is to learn IC logic chips and to prepare inexpensive experiments for sound making electronics workshops. This is a first version, please be aware of possible errors. All […]
