The gang over at Hacked Gadgets took apart a “spy video” car, if you need parts or want to base a project off a (somewhat) cheap set of components like RC control, video transmitter + video goggle, this might be the way to go. Plus you know in a few months this will be on […]
Finally, at last! You can build a low-cost, fully professional ASCII keyboard and encoder “Popular Electronics April 1974” – Link – but wait, there’s more, this keyboard showed up on the Apple 1 Computer – Link.
A MAKE reader writes in with a DIY RFID reader/cloner – “A public release of code & schematics for Jonathan Westhues’ Proxmark 3 RFID test device is now available. The device allows you to read, capture, and replay/clone transmissions from an RFID tag.” – Link & video of the device in action – Link. Related: […]
This clever Maker swapped out the LCD screen in a 15″ Powerbook with a higher resolution (1920 x 1200 display) – it should work in a new Macbook pro, and doesn’t require soldering, just assembly. Interesting, you’d get the same resolution as a 23″ Cinema display… [via] – Link.
Here’s how to make a 4 x AA USB battery pack for an external USB hard drive, Sitnalta writes – “Not long ago, I upgraded the hard drive in my laptop from an 80GB 4200RPM to a 120GB 5200RPM. Not wanting to let my old 2.5” drive go to waste, I bought a rather nice […]
Mqtthiqs writes – “I found a couple of those *really* old laptops at garage sales. They are 100% functionning, and the screen of this one is a wonderfully old school blue-white one. I *had* to do something with it… If you remove the whole plastic case, keeping only what really useful is (screen, motherboard and […]
Here’s a DIY MOD player you can build (MOD is sorta like a MP3, popular in the 80’s with Amiga computers) – “TRAXMOD is a small digital audio player using the Philips LPC2103 ARM7TDMI-S high speed microcontroller chip (prior versions were based on Microchip dsPIC DSPs). Currently, the ARM port can play raw wave audio […]
