Markus writes – “This miniature, 8-line home telephone exchange (PABX) works with standard telephones and features high-quality, user-friendly progress tones. Connection to telephones is via a two-wire unbalanced loop with a common ground. Only pulse dialling is supported although the exchange could be adapted to use a DTMF tone decoder.” Lots of schematics and photos […]
Maxxuss of Apple Mac OS X on Intel fame is freeing more hardware and applications for all of us – Thanks to his patch Skype on AMD processors can now do 10-way calling. You see, there’s a limit to the number of participants you can if (5) unless you have an Intel processor (10) – […]
Talking Electronics writes – “This project is to make a homebrew wireless ISP in your neighborhood, this is to share your internet connection using wireless technology. Although we have questions about security issues but I won’t be touching that topic, my reason for this blog is just to show how powerful this technology is and […]
With a building blocking his reception, one man would stop at nothing to get access to the only high-speed ISP in town – he built a 60 foot tower in his backyard, and here’s how he did it – [via] Link.
Have some old phones laying around? You can turn them into an intercom system, epanorama.net shows you how – “Talking over the phones is easy. You put DC current through the phone and it transmits and receives audio. So two phones and a current source (about 25mA) all in series will give you a talking […]
Tom writes – “A guy in Croatia is hand-building a water cooling system for a PC, starting with a mockup render, then building a huge copper radiator from scratch. He’s just finished polishing the blocks for cooling the various chips.” Link. The copper work is amazing!
David Pogue at the New York times has a round up of “portable hot spots” you can use to provide WiFi wherever you go, including one of my favorite ones – the Junxion box – Link. I use an EVDO card with my Mac and broadcast WiFi when traveling, but you can also make your […]
