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Bay Area (CA) Makers, this looks like a lot of fun (tonight)… – “Radio Handi is hosting a happy hour for phone geeks. Tuesday Oct 10th at the Phone Booth, 25th and S Van Ness in San Francisco. This is a phreak potluck. We’re asking everyone to bring an interesting fixed line phone (rotary phones […]
Michael Gartenberg from Jupiter Research spotted this odd phone service for making free international calls, you call a number in Iowa (712-858-8883) and according to the site… “When the gateway answers, enter 011 then the country code and number you want to reach (mobile users, do not hit SEND – the call will go through […]
Danamania is attempting to run Mac OS X on an old 25mhz Mac, should only take one week to boot up, nice – “The victi-WMac used for this little project is a Centris 650, with 68MB RAM, a 25MHz 68040 and 4GB drive – JUST big enough to fit my existing PearPC drive image. I […]
Here’s how to mod your Sony DW-D150A SuperDrive drive (actually a NEC 4570) on a Mac Pro so it burns CD-Rs faster, adds DVD-RAM support, AND region-free DVD playing… [via] – Link.
Joshuamarius writes – “Simple operations performed by a hard drive with no cover, so that you can see what it looks like inside. This experiment was performed on an old hard drive, do not try this with newer expensive hard drives, it is a bit risky. “ [via] – Link. Related: Make a hard drive […]
Sylvain writes – “Here’s how to use the ENC28J60 chip and a PIC microcontroller to build a tiny web server for 30 euros ($38 USD).” – Link. Related: A Match Head Sized Web-Server – Link. PSP Web Server – Link.
Remember those huge Pentium II chip enclosures? MAKE Flickr photo pool member Treasonx made a hard drive case for a 20 GB drive out of one… – Link.
