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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 […]

Sanyo eneloop batteries

Sanyo eneloop batteries

MAKE Flickr photo pool member s_h_i_r_o_u_t_o picked up the new Sanyo Enelopp rechargeable batteries, they’re not sold in the USA (yet, I think) – but they seem to be the best eco-friendly rechargeable batteries, can be recharged 1,000 times and do not have a major “memory effect” – Link. Oh, s_h_i_r_o_u_t_o also made a homemade […]

Robotic solar powered sunflower

Robotic solar powered sunflower

Hobbyman writes – “The robot sunflower is made from plastic parts taken from old CD drivers and junk home equipment; a small dc motor and reduction gear from the CD-R sawed together with some plastic parts, a tiny solar panel, some other plastic parts taken from an old aquarium filter and a simple, 4 transistor […]