Category Archives: Computer

DIY HACK – Acryllic LED Board for your CAR!

Posted on April 4, 2007 by max

Check out the awesome acrylic LED light DIY for your car. (It’s in Korean but you should be able to manage just with the pictures.)

Looks really cool… a simple but great idea for acrylic LED stuff.

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DIY HACK – How to run an AVR MCU on a battery made out of lime!

Posted on April 3, 2007 by max

Here’s a cool little DIY on how to run an AVR MCU on battery made out of lime!

Some of the fruit and vegetables we eat can be used to make electricity. The electrolytes in many fruit and vegetables, together with electrodes made of various metals can be used to make primary cells. One of the most easily available vegetable, the ubiquitous lemon can be used to make a fruit cell together with copper and zinc electrodes. The terminal voltage produced by such a cell

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DIY HACK – PC Case Furniture!

Posted on April 3, 2007 by max

Wow, check out this cool DIY on a PC case furniture! Although it’s in Korean, you should be able to follow the examples with pictures.

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DIY Video Howto: Analog Meter Control

Posted on April 3, 2007 by max

Here’s a video demonstrating analog meter control with a Cubloc microcontroller. It’s really easy to do, and adds a retro look to any project. It’s kind of a long video because I’m taking the time to explain everything I’m doing, b

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DIY HACK – How to make your own Metal Detector!

Posted on April 3, 2007 by max

I’ve noticed many people using metal detectors on the beach lately to find treasures or junk but here’s a great way to make one of those yourself!

BFO ( beat frequency oscillator ) metal detectors use two oscillators, each of which produces a radio frequency. One of these oscillators uses a coil of wire that we call the search loop. The second oscillator uses a much smaller coil of wire, and is usually inside the control box and is called the reference oscil

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DIY HACK – Wearable LED Light

Posted on April 3, 2007 by max

Check out the wearable LED light you can make!

The Wearable Light kit is a leather cuff with LEDs embedded inside. The Velcro functions as a switch so the bracelet only illuminates when it is in active use. It is a kit designed as an investigative tool to gain insight into DIY culture. Marrying sewing techniques with electronics, a new aestheticized vernacular for constructing simple circuitry is developed. The kits were deployed to crafters in the U.S., Canada and UK.

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DIY HOWTO – MAC Backpack

Posted on April 3, 2007 by max

Let’s go make a MACpack, or a backpack made with an old MAC. If you are really into MACs, you really need one of these…

Finally after nearly a year of working, i have finished my masterpiece; I have racked up more geek points by creating a backpack from an old macintosh SE computer c. 1988. I know everyone is saying either A.) why did you destroy a perfectly good macintosh? Or B.) Why didn’t you spend that time making floppy disk plate mail like you

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DIY – HOW TO trim your Coax TV Cable!

Posted on April 2, 2007 by max

Here’s a cool little DIY on how to trim that nasty cable TV coaxial cable that seems to stick out in your living room.

Coax Cables are one of the main culprits causing a mess behind our televisions. The cable guy often doesn’t think about the fact that we don’t need the lengthy cables he leaves behind. In our case, we had monster cables behind our TV and were determined to shrink them rather than control them…

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DIY Linux/Ubuntu – How to set up a custom firewall using iptables

Posted on April 1, 2007 by max
DIY Linux - How to set up a custom firewall using iptables

Here’s a cool DIY I stumbled onto today that shows you how to setup a custom firewall using iptables. This might not be for those of you who already have a GUI server management system but it’s good to know just in case your GUI goes down…

After getting some problems with firestarter i decided to get knowledge about iptables and how to set my own firewall script and want to share this experience for users who want to set a custom firewall up quickly. The

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DIY – VMware HOWTOs

Posted on March 31, 2007 by max

Do you need to learn to install VMware on your new Fedora or Ubuntu? Here’s a cool site that has a massive collection on VMware howtos.

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