Mobius88 sent in some great do it yourself water cooling resources from Overclockers: How cheaply can you cool a CPU with water? About $135 – 150. An introduction to High-end water cooling and more – Link. Pictured here, $15 PVC Reservoir from Mark Goudie.
David writes – “Radio Shack sells a $19 TV game called “Hummer offroad Racing” which has a full Commodore 64 inside that can be turned into a full computer.” – Link. Related: Hacking the C64 DTV. Retro-gaming joystick easily converts into full Commodore computer emulator. MAKE 02 – Page 149.
Fred Hunt from Bit-tech.net has a great review of the Alphacool watercooling starter kit – “Take a PC full of expensive, complicated, electricity-driven parts, add about half a litre of water in aquarium tubing and plug it into the mains electricity supply. Up until a few years ago many would have laughed at such thoughtless […]
Sony killed off the Aibo, but if you’re really hard up for some (headless) robot pet action, the TomCat looks pretty interesting – “TomCat is a research quality, quadruped robot that is moves at a speed of two body lengths per second.” [via] – Link. Related: QRIO and AIBO, the memories (huge photo gallery) – […]
Will O’Brien on Engadget has a how to on making an external antenna for a GPS – “If you crack open your GPS, you could extend the wire between the antenna and the internal antenna, but the loss from the extra wire would degrade the signal. But active antennas amplify the signal to get past […]
It looks like the folks from MacBidouille/HardMac got an LCD panel working with a VGA connector, they say they’re going to publish how they did it soon. Thanks Dan! – Forum (in French) & link.
Norwood writes – “Dark Blade custom computer case by Gianluca Tait (Trento Italy). Gizmodo originally noticed it back when it was just the cooling unit – that’s less than half the structure that it ultimately became. This was a multi-year build with work suspended after finishing the liquid cooling unit, and then resumed to the […]
