Here’s how to make an ultra-cheap external cell phone antenna from coax cable and a hangar. You’ll need- A wire pants hanger. A length of coax cable (2′ should do). A plug that fits into your phone’s external antenna jack on your phone. (or be prepared to rig something together) Link.
Decent HOW TO for USB IR receiver …the construction is not that easy as for the serial IR receiver, but it should not be a big problem for an amateur solderer to solder the circuit referring to the following instruction. Since I wanted to build up everything as small as possible, it took me quite some time fiddling around to develop the following circuit. Link.
See our HOW TO…At $30 each these video cameras could be really useful for indymedia in latin america. The problem with expensive equiptment is that it centralized the means of production, you only have one camera, and when it’s lost it’s gone. But with $30 devices which record audio for interviews, video, and you can grab still’s from you can do some amazing work. It’s not so expensive that it’ll get stollen quickly. We could get one of these in to the hands of many media activists instead of the one digital camera per imc which is not the standard in most imc’s in countries with ‘under developed’ economies. Link.
Do it yourslef plasma globe. The circuit in my homemade unit has driven a homemade globe quite well. It has also driven a store-bought globe extremely well. Add to the list Neon bulbs (I get trails in candle-flicker bulbs and calculator displays.), florescent tubes, Xenon flash tubes, and even normal light bulbs, etc. [via] PDF Link.
Here’s a nice story about how someone fixed their own hard drive. I like how they documented the entire process from figuring out what type of screws to use to swapping out the parts from a new drive to the old one. Link.
Here’s a really cool Mac Mod…It’s a G4 Mac inside a Mac SE, it’s slot loading and it has an internal iPod Docking system on top as well as a remote control. Link.
