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Pictures and history of the Chaos Computer – “The computer described on these pages was started in 1977 with the gift of a Signetics 2650 microprocessor by Mullard. Attempts during the previous year to order an Intel 8008 and a 2650 from Farnell had all proved impossible, and this 2650 processor was finally obtained after […]
Oh yah, this is the stuff – a collection of user interfaces from Macs and PCs starting from 1984 – [via] – Link. Update: The screenshots in the link aren’t that accurate – this site is better – Link. Thanks MAKE reader EveryoneLovesIt.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Greg-o-ree made a pretty nice looking LCD photo frame from an old laptop, he writes – “I take so many pictures, it would cost a small fortune to print them all, let alone have enough wall space to hang them. So what I have done is to convert an old […]
Reversial writes – “After taking an ancient “Microsoft Internet Keyboard” apart, turns out it’s a rather simple mod to convert it to a wafer-thin, transparent beast.” – Link.
Here’s how to make some cool looking artwork that would make a great t-shirt or desktop wallpaper – Link.
If you’ve ever seen that soothing “breathing” sleep indicator LED on Macs and want to use that same pattern for your electronics projects, here’s one way to reverse engineer it using a MIDIsense (featured in MAKE 07) – Link. Related: Breathing status LED indicator patent – Link.
Pyrofer writes – “Recently I saw an article on a USB Optical mouse that had been modded to include a Nokia Colour LCD Screen. This got me thinking, The screen was quite usefull but why go to all the effort of modding a mouse, why not use the whole Nokia?” [via] – Link.
