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The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.

Xyron Design Runner review

Xyron Design Runner review

Wan has a review of this little printer that prints as you move it over things, it wants to be hacked, not sure if it prints on people – “Xyron Design Runner lets you print ANYWHERE…check out the FirstLook, FirstUse, and the video. The only thing we need is for them to upgrade the reader […]

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Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP

I really like the new Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP – you can record videos and add live video effects and also use avatars. I’m going to poke around the files that they use to see if I can make my own. The camera is motorized, so it’ll do face tracking too – when I get […]

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Alphacool watercooling starter kit

Alphacool watercooling starter kit

Fred Hunt from Bit-tech.net has a great review of the Alphacool watercooling starter kit – “Take a PC full of expensive, complicated, electricity-driven parts, add about half a litre of water in aquarium tubing and plug it into the mains electricity supply. Up until a few years ago many would have laughed at such thoughtless […]

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Review of the super-tiny VIA Epia-N Nano-ITX

Review of the super-tiny VIA Epia-N Nano-ITX

Monopole writes – “Review of the new Nano-ITX EPIA-N8000E Fanless motherboard. It’s just a slightly too large to fit in a 5 1/4″ drive bay. But I’m sure makers will be stuffing it into just about anything else!” [via] – Link.

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Review: Animal Crossing and Electroplankton

Review: Animal Crossing and Electroplankton

Zonk on Slashdot has an excellent review of the only two “games” I “play” for the Nintendo DS – “When is a game not a game? Because it’s software designed to run on the Nintendo DS, Electroplankton and Animal Crossing: Wild World are packaged and sold as traditional games. Despite that, they don’t have many […]

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Go paperless with the ScanSnap…

Go paperless with the ScanSnap…

SsaboutHannes writes in with a great product at Macworld for going paperless – “The Fujitsu ScanSnap Mac – It was announced at Apple Expo last September in Paris and I bought one instantly. Within a few afternoons I scanned a few thousand pages (and threw away more than 10000 pages of paper!) and now I have no more paper at home (only books!). All of these pages are now saved as PDF and alltogether use around 800MB, so they easily fit on a 1GB SDcard, that I can view on my MDApro.” Link.

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