DIY iPhone charger
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Entire art show of cable paintings
Artist Ruth Whiting had a show up in Asheville, NC of her oil paintings of cables and plugs. Many of the paintings celebrate the details of the cable much in the same way plants are often rendered: luscious. Via BoingBoing. More: Internet meme paintings by Jeremiah Palecek Password painting #BADA55 In A Can CAPTCHA Paintings
Headless laptop mod
Sarc had a tibook with a broken LCD, so he removed it and uses an external monitor. From the MacNN forum post: Since I operate the computer on “closed-lid” mode, I was having trouble keeping the LCD closed because it didn’t allow the heat to dissipate, so the fans where running constantly … I removed […]
Replace the cells in your old G3 powerbook battery
This mod shows you how to replace the AA batteries inside your old G3 powerbook’s battery. Sure you can go buy a replacement, but why not just pry it open and do it yourself? Replace the Cells in Your Apple Powerbook G3 (Lombard or Pismo) Battery
Silence your computer’s loud internal fans
This maker was fed up with the amount of noise his PC’s internal fans were making so he built a mod to control their speed with an automotive rheostat. Check out all of the intricate details on the link below. Using an Automotive Rheostat for Fan Control
Singing with the fishes
The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir is an art car project by Richard Carter, John Schroeter (Houston, TX), and some thirty volunteers. The car incorporates 250 singing Billy Bass animatronic fish and 250 mechanical lobsters, including a conductor that’s perched on a boom over the hood of the 1984 Volvo sedan the choir calls home. After the […]
Glowing VHS tape USB hub will make you remember the good old days
Ah, a blast from the video storage past. The now dead VHS tape gets remixed as a 4 port USB hub thanks to a clever maker who even decided to use the incoming power line from the USB port to create this glowing blue backlight. So next time you are thinking of dumping your old […]
