DIY PowerMate
This Instructable details how to make your own jog/scroll wheel and volume control, a la the Griffin Technology PowerMate. Desktop Scroll Wheel and Volume Control!
Computers & Mobile
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HOW TO – Automated cell phone answering system
My pal Randy just published an instructable for making an auto-answerer for a cell phone. It puts your callers on hold, wastes your minutes, and helps you promote your own band, not to mention bugs out your friends and confuses others. He hacked a bluetooth headset with some other components to make this customer service […]
Wooden cellphone case mod will give you splinters
This cellphone case mod sheds the phone’s usual plastic exterior and replaces it with wood for a more angular and natural look. CellPhone Case Mod
GIF news
8-bit BBS memories… GIF news newsletter & Flickr set via waxy. GIF News was a GIF-based hardware and software newsletter released bi-monthly from 1988 to 1993 by Eric Hsiao. (This set currently only houses issues from 1990 to 1993.) Pages have been arranged in the set in chronological order for easier reading. After January of […]
Calculate the solar potential of your roof
The RoofRay site allows you to specify location, size and slope of your roof via Google Maps. It then uses this info to estimate how much energy can be generated from your available exposure. Though perhaps not terribly precise, it’s certainly helpful for familiarizing more people with some determining factors and maybe even making solar […]
“Archaeologist” – See a MAKE timeline on DIGG
This is neat, you can see some of the top stories from MAKE that hit DIGG over the last couple years… (You can try out other sites and keywords too)…
CircuitPeople – View and share printed circuit board files online
CircuitPeople made a site where you can upload Gerbers in a zip file for easy viewing (PNG) via Ladyada. Also check out gerbv.
