Crazy casemod round-up
Dark Roasted Blend has a large round-up of weird, wonderful, and thoroughly unnecessary computer casemods. Some of these you’ve likely already seen in your online haunts, others not. Cool Computer Case Mods
Computers
HOW TO – Recycled parts decision maker
Old hard drives CD-ROM drives can be repurposed towards a variety of interesting projects but don’t overlook one of the most vital applications – an automated method for making those really tough decisions. This is a gadget made from recycled computer parts to give an absolute, unequivocal and irrefutable answer to that eternal office question […]
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
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, […]