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Thomas O’Connor’s “USB Floppy Drive” is a nice reimagination of technology from the not-so-distant past. We’ve seen a lot of these imaginative USB drives and hopefully we’ll see a kit soon that will let you easily create your own design. via Core77
You can watch (at least) 5 full episodes of MacGyver on YouTube now via Lifehacker. Update: Veoh has over 100 episodes! More: The MakeShift challenge invites MAKE readers to submit their solutions to a problem posed by the author, Lee D. Zlotoff (creator of MacGyver). Check out the past MakeShifts as well as the latest, […]
Integrated GPS on a DELL Mini 9 via Engadget. Acabtp writes… So, I wanted to add a GPS receiver to my Mini 9, but I didn’t want to have to use a dongle or other external device. I figured that a netbook really ought to just have it built in, so that’s what I decided […]
Jeffrey Augustine Songco made this rather foreboding dream catcher featuring a captcha text – I’m really interested in the relationship between my identity and the Internet. I’m interested in how I can become someone else or learn more about myself by using the Internet. Regardless of what that identity is, Dream Captcha is a work […]
Quick and easy how-to on setting up remote bittorrenting at the Wired How-To Wiki… For the full-fledged BitTorrent geek, remote control means setting up BitTorrent on a home server that runs continuously in the background. Even if you don’t want to delve into home server setups, remote control tools have other uses. Say you’re at […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Flickr member OldScot built this aesthetically pleasing data display using a Freeduino, 4 surplus LED telephone displays and a housed it all in a photo display box – nice! – STATBox on Flickr a bunch more pertinent project/code details can be found on his site – USB StatusBox ArduinoUSB7 […]
Representing invisible activities of data systems in a familiar and comprehensible manner can play vital role in understanding and troubleshooting digital systems – and heck, everybody loves PONG, right? Yup, even Apache web servers – Logstalgia (aka ApachePong) replays or streams a standard website access log (eg access.log) as a retro arcade game-like simulation. We […]
