Here’s a photo diary explaining how a group of Makers made a PC using a real pumpkin as the case. The Pumpkin PC uses a Latitude D410 motherboard and red flashing fans for eyes. It would be cool in version 2 to have a LCD screen that pull Flickr photos with tagged Jack-o-lantern photos. [via] Link.
Stunning collection of jewelry made from electronic parts. Capacitor necklaces, diode earrings, Cat5 bracelets – my fav “1.1MΩ Purple Resistor Necklace: Necklace created from 32 1.1MΩ resistors, their leads wrapped four times around a central ring to create this pattern, with additional resistors accenting the edges.” [via] Link.
Here’s a really neat project that plays audio out of a PC serial port running Linux. It works by resampling audio to the baudrate of the serial port. Some comments on the site point out that this is a lot like the old days of TRS-80s, TI-85’s and Sinclair ZX’s when you wanted to get audio out of them. [via] Link.
Dell included a 16X PCI-E slot with the Dell SC420. Oddly only enough pins for an 8X card are present, and they placed 2 dividers preventing the use of a 16X card even though it’s a 16X slot. Knocking out those two dividers and running a 16x card at 8x is the plan. With the minimal effects of 8X vs. 16X, this modification was a go! [via] Link.
Make pal Jacob hit the Urban Atmospheres presented by Intel. “Welcome to a party where the guests are tracked by RFID and their location is graphed overtime. They are represented by a baron a projected bar graph whose color changes depending on their location in the party. More information about this opening can be found on the Urban Atmospheres website.” Link
Great iPod hack from Fabienne Serriere “For this week’s Nano Hack we will cover how to get power off your iPod Nano’s battery. Power can be useful when you need to run other small low power devices in conjunction with the Nano. These devices can be small circuits, lights, etc. In next week’s installment we will use the power we draw to power a glowing sleeve for the iPod Nano.” Link.
Pretec compactGPS serial modification – a description of how to modify the compactGPS to work with a standard serial port. This mod will allow you to use the device using your PDA serial port, a PC serial port, and a PDA/GPS car kit. [