Month: March 2006

Mac Mini inside a NES

Mac Mini inside a NES

Brent writes – “Well, someone had to do it! The Mac Mini NES was an idea born out necessity, and a love of the hardware modification arts. Necessity because I owned an internal DVD writer for my previous PC and, with the switch to an Apple PC, I was left to use an IDE to […]

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HOW TO – Test Bipolar transistors if you have an analog multimeter

HOW TO – Test Bipolar transistors if you have an analog multimeter

Glenn writes – “We know how a transistor works but some of us doesn’t really know how to test the component itself. Nowadays, most Digital Multimeters have sockets provided to test them, but what will you do if you have those old Analog/Needletype ones? This is a simple way to do it…” Link.

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HOW TO – Make a snow light

HOW TO – Make a snow light

Chris writes – “Build it during the day and light it as soon as it gets dark. This how-to will take you through the collecting of the neccessary items (candle, paper and snow) and the assembly of the product step-by-step (e.g. make the snow balls)” Link.

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