Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering and Electronics (free ebook)
Copyleft electronics ebook FEEE – Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, based on material originally written by T.R. Kuphaldt and various co-authors [via] – Link.
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Mouse made of stone
Here’s a mouse made from stone by Russian designer Neko, looks like the stone parts are polished/cut and glued to the mouse… – Link.
The MAKE Open Source MP3 Player @ the Holiday Gadget Guide
MAKE is contributing a few posts to the Holiday Gadget Guide for FM, we thought we’d be different and show kits and things you can build yourself… The first, is our MP3 player – Wouldn’t it be great to actually own your music player? Like really own it? Building it from the ground up and […]
HOW TO – Make a vintage remote TV-B-Gone case mod
Windell writes – “Turn off that television in classic style! Here we show you how to hack a TV-B-Gone into the case of a vintage television remote control, such that the original on/off button instead activates the TV-B-Gone. We also modify the power supply so that it runs off of a regular 9 V battery, […]
One Laptop Per Child (photos)
While some of this week around the tech sites has been devoted to “unpacking” shots of the Wii, PS3, Zune and other gadgets – the OLPC folks had an unpacking party of their own – the first 10 laptops for the One Laptop Per Child arrived and the team took photos – [via] – Link […]
Sony Reader Internals 2.0 (pics!)
Lint writes – “Hi, I took apart my wonderful Sony Reader for the world to see. Might be interesting to some of you Makers out there.” – Link. Related: MAKE on the new Sony PRS-500 e-ink/ebook reader – Link. Sony responds to our Sony Reader questions – Link.
Electricity around the world: everything about plugs, sockets, voltages, converters, etc.
Everything you need to know about electricity around the world… – “There is no standard mains voltage throughout the world and also the frequency, i.e. the number of times the current changes direction per second, is not everywhere the same. Moreover, plug shapes, plug holes, plug sizes and sockets are also different in many countries. […]