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DIY: Old diskette ornaments

DIY: Old diskette ornaments

It seems like a lot of people still have a bunch of old diskettes lying around collecting dust. Why not make them into a geeky holiday ornament for your tree? It’s the perfect gift for your hacker friends. More about DIY: Old diskette ornaments [CraziestGadgets] In the Maker Shed: The Best of Instructables Volume I

iPhone Linux

The iPhone dev team, hard at work as usual, announced a successful iPhone Linux port today. It’s still at a very early stage, but the kernel boots on first and second generation iPhones and the first generation iPod touch. A framebuffer driver and a working Busybox installation point to an exciting open source future: What […]

Noodle oracle

I don’t generally do a lot of food posts over here, but I thought this was really clever – love noodles, but getting bored with your same old combinations? Consult the Noodlr, the noodle soup idea generator cooked up by Serious Eater Michele Humes. Via Angry Chicken

Think Anatomy learning site

Think Anatomy learning site

Street Anatomy has launched a cool new sister site, Think Anatomy. I found that reading an anatomy textbook, sitting in lecture, and dissecting in lab weren’t enough to really master anatomy. So I turned to the Internet to find resources like dissection videos, interactives, games, quizzes, etc., to supplement my study material. It took a […]

VGA to USB power mod

VGA to USB power mod

This Instructable details a simple little hack to get USB power out of a VGA port, to power external disc drives, DVD players, and the like. All you need is a male to male VGA gender changer and a female plug from any old USB extension cable. VGA to USB power! Best Of Instructables Our […]