Notes"A new system called Arduino provides the benefits of the Basic Stamp at a greatly reduced cost, increased speed, and is entirely open-source."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"TechShop is a fully-equipped open-access workshop and creative environment that lets you drop in any time and work on your own projects at your own pace."Unfurl
Notes"This clever Maker swapped out the LCD screen in a 15" Powerbook with a higher resolution (1920 x 1200 display) - it should work in a new Macbook pro, and doesn't require soldering, just assembly."Unfurl
Notes"just carefully remove the tiny lens from your optical drive and affix it in place on the webcam with some cardboard and tape (they apparently didn't remove the webcam's lens)"Unfurl
NotesThe story of the Linksys Wireless-G Router (model WRT54G) and how you can turn a $60 router into a $600 router is a little bit CSI and a little bit Freaks & Geeks.Unfurl
Notes"It has all the keys, switches, and buttons you’ve come to expect from modern self-destruct buttons, adding the power of four USB ports for extra practicality"Unfurl
Notes"thanksgiving 2k5 : what's more excessive than a giant pie? recirculating fountains of food seemed like the obvious escalation. a custom peristaltic pump design powered by an electric drill provided a gushing torrent of delicious, piping hot gravy."Unfurl
Notes"After seeing info on hacking the keyboard backlight of newer Apple portables and someone posting a CPU meter using the backlight, I decided that it would be time to put this into an iTunes plugin."Unfurl
Notes"Building a general radio that can receive and transmit, and attaching it to a software system that can fill in the gaps of what we normally think of as radio, is kind of like the Enterprise's deflector dish"Unfurl
Notes"we have received the Datel Max Media Dock for DS and thought we'd share with you some initial picture shots to satisfy your DS storage hunger!"Unfurl
Notes"In other words, it may soon be possible for budding Bene Gesserits, with appropriate training, to receive volumes of material via the sensitive parts of the body."Unfurl
Notes"in the vast majority of tests, the MacBook beat out the desktop system and certainly proved itself competition for all but the highest-end (G5 Quad) Mac systems on the market today."Unfurl
Notes"this display-by-fire uses a pretty low res roughly QQQQQQVGA 12 x 7 "pixel" array to scroll text, track cursor movement, play animations, or even spout off according to percussive key input."Unfurl
Notes"The objective of an anti-reflective polarizer is to amplify the light generated by the LCD while minimizing the reflection of external ambient light."Unfurl
Notes"The user interface is a pair of illuminating gloves that can be used to track intuitive hand gestures like grabbing, pulling, reaching and rotating."Unfurl
Notes"Using an X-10 control system, Zack Anderson and his roommate RJ Ryan hooked up strobe lights, black lights, a fog machine, laser light show, scrolling LED sign, disco ball, and an LCD projector to their computers so that all the effects would sync with wUnfurl
Notes"But in the post-PC era we're in today, where the focus is on things like music players, game consoles and cellphones, the end-to-end model is the early winner. "Unfurl
Notes"With only a few minutes of road sign hacking, I had programmed an homage to the 1951 sci-fi film The Day The Earth Stood Still, the phrase that was used to stop Gort, the robot in the film, from taking over the world."Unfurl
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