Here’s a good portable mag card reader – “The HandySwipe provides a portable magnetic card reader interface and display. It collects card data from a “Type 2″ card reader (shown here), and displays the data on a small character LCD screen. Type 2 stripes are by far the most common in use, such as on […]
Guerroloco’s EL Wirte project is now up on Instructables, he writes – “This project uses electroluminescent wire (a.k.a. “EL wire”) to create a glowing, flashing, spinning piece of eye candy that could be used as decoration, a disco light for a dance party, or just for taking cool photos. This is definitely a work in […]
Christophe writes “After reading your article “Work on your PC -fast- HighSpeed PC tech station“, I decided to build my own. It is great for testing components. As you can see, no high tech materials here: mainly from scrap laminate boards, wood and aluminium profile and even a Tic Tac box ! It can be […]
Nospleen writes “I always use my laptop on my lap, and it tends to get really hot. I looked online for some kind of stand, but they were all really expensive. I made my own out of a scrap of plywood and some rubber. Now the laptop sits nicely on my lap and still has […]
Chrwei writes “Upgrade a HP Scanjet5 network scanner with a min-itx system and GNU/Linux in order to gain faster processing speed and add more utility such as document management and file storage and server.” – Link.
PCunning writes “During the 2006 Maker Fair the Graffiti Research Lab was demoing their LED Throwies and Pat & Ward Cunningham were demonstrating Cybords. While talking someone made a comment about wanting to give the Throwies a voice. Ward & Pat took a simple ATtiny45 chip and added it to the mix to give the […]
LEGO isn’t messing around, they’re open sourcing their firmware for their processor – “The LEGO Group today announced that for the first time it will release as open source the firmware of the LEGO MINDSTORMS microprocessor – the new NXT brick – the core component of its next generation robotics toolset. Additionally, the company announced […]
