Homebrew microcontroller based hard drive LED bar graph
CandyAddict writes – “This is a PIC microcontroller project which turns the computer’s hard drive LED into a more interesting 10 LED bargraph display.” Link.
Computers & Mobile
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Add 8GB to your cell phone…
Here’s a clever add-on for your cell phone that can give it up to 8 GB of memory – you just pop it in the card slot and stick the memory on the back of the phone. The memory upgrades are compatible with all phones using a MicroSD or T-Flash connections. [via] Link.
“Vacuum tube age” technical books online
Pete writes – “Preserving the Knowledge of the Ancients? I’ve found that most of the technical books published before about 1964 never had their copyrights renewed, so now are in the public domain. So I am endeavoring to digitize and post some selected books relating to the “vacuum tube age” of electronics here.” This is […]
Spiderman case mod & engraving…
Micke Gustafsson’s amazing case mod for his son – “My son loves Spiderman so naturally when I asked him how he wanted his new case themed, he didn’t even blink. Spiderman it is then. Thankfully, Spiderman has been around in various forms for over 40 years, including comic books, TV shows and several highly successful […]
HOW TO – Make a 3D display from cellophane
Here’s how to make a 3D display for cell phones and LCD screens – From the site: “We present a novel, inexpensive, stereoscopic technique for generating 3D images from cellophane on a liquid crystal displays which are most typically used for a laptop screen or a camera phone screen. Stereoscopy requires independent manipulation of the […]
Linux MP3 Juke Box LCD screen?
Zor0 writes – “I built this MP3 juke box a while ago and i’m looking for a way to add a small screen to it, preferably a small lcd that can show a few lines of text. I’ve seen several things on the make blog recently about interfacing these types of screens with microcontrollers, does […]
Computer History Museum photos
Scott writes – “Here are some photos I shot in the Visible Storage area of the amazing Computer History Museum in Mountain View California which has a huge collection of computers going back to the dawn of the computer age. It included computers like UNIVAC, Digital Equipment PDP and Vaxs, Cray Supercomputers, components from SAGE […]