If none of the existing MIDs on the market take your fancy, you could always do what HY Research have done and build your own touchscreen marvel, the Beagle MID. Based on the Beagle Board, the DIY mobile internet device packages a 4.3-inch 480 x 272 touchscreen with a custom interface board and Bluetooth.
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DIY multitouch isn’t new – we’ve featured quite a few home-grown rivals to Microsoft’s Surface here on SlashGear – but MaximumPC’s tutorial does stand out by virtue of its completeness. Thanks to having a spare PC and projector to hand, they spent just $350 on making their multitouch table.
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All eyes may be on Dell’s newer Inspiron Mini 10 netbook right now, but that doesn’t stop loyal tinkerers wanting to add some extra oomph to their Dell Inspiron Mini 9 machines. Arch-modder JKK has flipped out the standard SSD that Dell supply with the 8.9-inch budget ultraportable and replaced it with an 128GB RunCore SSD.
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So, if you love KORG Kaossilators and want to make them even easier to use, you might want to try on this crafty DIY project for size. No, you’re not seeing things. Someone has really wired up a Kaossilator to a Guitar Hero guitar remote.
How can it be, you may be wondering? Well, James Haskin got inspired when seeing Wayne Coyne’s double-necked Guitar Hero creation and decided to change up his Kaossilator just a tad.
Ben Heck has been at it again, this time taking a Commodore 64 and transforming it into a laptop that “looked exactly like a computer from the early 80’s, yet in a new form.” As well as fully-functional C64 hardware, the laptop has a 15-inch screen, original keyboard and even a separate sub-screen for memory status.
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Griffin’s PowerMate USB controller may be a few years old, but it still manages to pull in buyers. Anyone not willing to spend $45 on a glorified volume knob, though, might find something to occupy them in MAKE’s weekend project, the Powerfake.
In our experience there’s a lot of interest in GPS trackers, like the BlackLine GPS Snitch we reviewed last year, but most people can’t justify being locked into long-term, often expensive service plans. That’s where the Open GPS Tracker project steps in: it aims to take cheap, prepaid cellphones and fit a simple GPS adapter for a low-cost alternative.
There’s little as pleasant in life as freshly-baked donuts. Or chocolate cake, or perhaps cup cakes or sourdough bread. That’s why more bakeries should consider investing in a BakerTweet: designed by Poke London, it’s an easy way for bakeries to send out messages – via Twitter – that more things are fresh out of the oven.
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Take the guts of a Sega Dreamcast, fashion an ejecting GD-Drive mechanism and stuff it all into a 15-inch monitor housing, and you may end up with this: the Dreamcast Tablet. Maker WERD of the Benheck forums also stuffed some batteries in there too, meaning the console is now good for up to 3.5hrs of standalone runtime.
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OCZ have announced a DIY netbook, the chassis of a 10-inch WSVGA netbook with a 1.6GHz Intel N270 processor, into which the buyer adds RAM, storage and an optional card reader. The OCZ Neutrino netbook supports up to 2GB of DDR2 RAM and either a traditional 2.5-inch hard-drive or an SSD.
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