Tag Archive for 'diy'
Check out this really compact electrocardiogram that someone made from a really tiny LCD, a pair of electrodes, and an ARM training unit. Its an STM32 Primer at the heart of the unit.
This nifty little DIY gadget is for all of you out there that are sick of all the big brother-ism going on. The site with the actual instructions is in some foreign language that I couldn’t even recognize let alone read, but essentially it seems to be a ring of Infrared Lights powered by a [...]
I’m not a ThinkPad fanboy, but my experience with ThinkPad has been amazing. The X300 excites me and I’m planning to get one for myself. One lucky dude in LA was able to get a unit for himself. Like a true techie, rather than just using the laptop and brag about it, he went [...]
I don’t know how he did it, but he did. He put an small amplifier, jack, power on LED, and volume knob in a coconut.
Many companies went green last year, and Asus is being more innovative on their Green initiative. Asus’s new P5E3 Premium motherboard uses a new solution to make it more energy efficient - this solution is called ASUS EPU (Energy Processing Unit).
With the rate of digital camera going these days, everyone is a self-proclaimed photographer. Lawyers and doctors spend thousands of dollars, with top of the line Double-Digits-Megapixels camera, for their dog and cat session but wonder why the pictures came out blurry. There are some of us in a tight budget look to hang on [...]
Apple sealed MacBook Air’s battery and soldered its memory onto the logic board to keep its slim factor. Although it’s sealed, the MacBook Air is quite easy to take apart - our friend at Giz tore the unit they received from Apple (Pic at giz was taken down) to show what underneath the slim and [...]
If you aren’t happy with those tiny USB drives that always seem to run away when you need them most, you might need a more bulky solution. That way you can spot it on your desk without having to strain your eyes too much. I assure you that although it is a [...]
Brett Dawson is heavy-handed with his game controllers. However, since he’s a drummer and his game of choice is Rock Band, we can excuse him, especially when he solves the issue with a professional drum kit converted into a controller. Brett painstakingly transferred the piezoelectric cells that pick up the drum vibrations from Harmonix’ own [...]
Once again I’m ashamed of my lack of Dremel skills. The product of a feverish desire to take the Sega Dreamcast out on the move, this mod is a custom vacuum casing containing not only the guts of the console but a set of two 7.2V 3Ah R/C car batteries. Rather intimidatingly, the game CD [...]
