HD clock spins up
Ian built a very excellent LED hard drive clock from this design using a PIC microcontroller. It really is a very cool display – nice. – LED Hard Drive Clock 3.5″ [via Hackosis] More: Hard drive clock
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Weekend Project: Hard Drive Wind Chimes
Reuse a crashed hard drive or two for a set of wind chimes. Easy to make and sound great. Thanks go to Thomas Arey for the original article in Make Magazine. To download Hard Drive Wind Chimes MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the Hard Drive Wind Chimes article MAKE 12 “Hard […]
Weekend Project: Hard Drive Wind Chimes (PDF)
Reuse a crashed hard drive or two for a set of wind chimes. Easy to make and sound great. From Make Volume 12 by Thomas Arey. View the PDF
Eee PC teardown
I’ve been watching with great interest the hacks folks have been coming up with for the basement-priced Eee PC laptops, as I’ve also watched the price dip below $300. Here, Bit-Tech has a look under the hood of the Eee PC 901. [via] Related: HOW TO – Add a keyboard backlight to an Eee PC […]
Epic HP printer take-apart
When I was writing my TiVo hacking book, my favorite part of the entire project was taking apart two TiVos (a series 1 and series 2) and trying to figure out what everything did. I tested components, poked around inside the code, did countless Google searches on chip manufacturers and parts numbers, looked up patents, […]
Review of Small Form Factor PCs
Todd Weiss, of Computerworld, has a nice review of Make: Books’ Small Form factor PCs, recently released at Maker Faire: The idea is to build around a mini-ATX motherboard, which can be fit inside small containers due to its miniaturized size, giving lots of flexibility for a wide variety of innovative cases. Were you envious […]
Keyboard pants
No, it’s not just one of those roll-up keyboards that melted while in use – it’s keyboard pants. Sure to be standard issue hacker gear right around never. The hip mounted speaker feature though, that right there is potential teen-trend-gold, just hope the model pictured can keep ’em hiked up long enough to hear a […]
