Brian writes – Inspired by the wealth of hard-drive recycling ideas on hacked-gadgets and the >springverb research posted at Electronic Peasant. When looking at both these pages… this hack becomes pretty obvious. It helps that i had all the materials laying around already. Hard drive spring “speaker” – [via] Link.
Note: Some makers have commented that this particular project should not be attempted unless you know exactly what you are doing and have taken the right precautions. bbum’s found a cool way to get a photo with lots of sparks: * Take a part a disposable camera, desolder the capacitor and rig up a charging […]
OK AVR fans and project makers, Atmel the makers of AVR have their own TV show, from Norway – post in the comments! AVRTV – [via] Link.
Here are a couple AppleTV hacks and a special how-to from Dave on running AppleTV on a stock Mac mini! Here are the steps I took to get the Apple TV OS working on my Mac mini. Just so you know, I have a core solo Mac mini – stock configuration. I started on this […]
Ubuntu’s server distribution, with its tiny memory footprint, makes a really decent base setup for a VMware server machine. Using X11, you can even run the console on the server and have it remotely displayed to a Mac desktop (since there isn’t a native Mac console available). Here’s a decent walkthrough that will quickly take […]
Dick shows you how to make your own rusty nail LED night light! These blocking oscillator type power supplies work best with ferrite cores, and sometimes they can be hard to locate. Some readers have expressed anxiety over making inductors, and that is understandable since to many, inductors have an aura of mystery about them. […]
