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Mineral oil submerged computer
Puget Custom Computers made a nice mineral oil submerged computer – Over the years, we have seen many projects on the web that cooled a computer using common vegetable oil, including a very popular video by Tom’s Hardware. We felt that by building a computer in an aquarium using clear mineral oil, that we would […]
DIY – improving fuel efficiency
Robert Kwiatkowski designs and deploys data logging systems for Condition Based Maintenance on aircraft carriers. To improve the fuel efficiency of his thirsty truck, he’s doing data logging via the OBDII port using this simple interface, a laptop computer and Windmill, a data acquisition application… Link.
New stuff @ Spark Fun Electronics
Spark Fun has a few new items of interest, if you dig on electronics… Color 24-Bit LCD 4.3″ PSP 480×272. Looks like some SFE fans found this device before we could even get it noted on the home page! This is an original 24-bit color LCD from Sharp. Does it look familiar? It’s the same […]
Sniff and record VoIP calls with VoIPong
VoIPong is a VoIP network sniffer that allows you to capture and record any VoIP call that crosses your network. From the VoIPong home page: VoIPong is a utility which detects all Voice Over IP calls on a pipeline, and for those which are G711 encoded, dumps actual conversation to seperate wave files. It supports […]
Beautify Firefox widgets in Ubuntu
The thing about Firefox under Linux is that its form widgets look a little nasty. Thankfully, Osmo Salomaa created some nice replacement widgets that really clean up the interface, and fatsheep over at ubuntu forums put together a quick script for installing/uninstalling the patch. It’s a big improvement, unless you’re into the whole super-aliased, shadow-casting […]
Gapminder: world statistics over time
Gapminder is an interactive utility for examining world statistics. It’s extremely cool if you’re curious about things like the relationship between income and life expectancy or carbon emissions and internet use. There is a scrubber for adjusting the date, so you can see how the data points have changed over time. I wonder if internet […]