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This electric Guitar Laptop mod by Ben Lewry called the “LCDetar” is a really nice hack that makes you look even geekier on stage than you thought was possible. The onscreen visualization is directly connected to the sound generated by the guitar,, check out the video! Electric Guitar Laptop Mod is Pretty Sweet
Todd Weiss, of Computerworld, has a nice review of Make: Books’ Small Form factor PCs, recently released at Maker Faire: The idea is to build around a mini-ATX motherboard, which can be fit inside small containers due to its miniaturized size, giving lots of flexibility for a wide variety of innovative cases. Were you envious […]
Nick sent in this great build for improving your WiFi connection. There are a lot of different ways to make WiFi antennas, many of them featured on the MAKE blog. This is a nice design based on the Yagi antenna, which has been around since the 1920’s. I have been playing around with some wifi […]
Janne writes about – Helmer, a linux cluster in a IKEA Helmer cabinet… 3D computer rendering are very CPU intensive and the best way so speed up slow render problems, are usually to distribute them on to more computers. Render farms are usually very large, expensive and run using ALLOT of energy. I wanted to […]
This is a beautiful brass and copper USB drive that is handmade in the steampunk style. I wish it did more than just look cool and store some data. Via Gizmodo – Steampunk USB drive Update: Check out the comments, it seems there may be an issue with the site. Surf wisely. Related: The Steampunk […]
This mod tutorial shows you how to convert and old Macintosh SE into a monitor for your current Mac or PC. Paint the whole thing black, as the author did, and you’ve got a pretty stylin’ piece of tech schwag to impress your friends with. Project Mac SE Monitor Mod
From the Add-Art site: Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators. Spearheaded by Anti-Advertiser Steve Lambert, this open source project is being developed by Eyebeam. It works with AdBlockPlus, a Firefox extension that […]
