[Eddie], who made the Mac logo LCD Mod, had posted a step by step tutorial on how to do it yourself. He generally just fully disassembled his MacBook, popped out the logo, put one from an iBook or Powerbook, then mounted a small LCD back there and routed it into a USB port internally. He […]
in spite of not selling in numbers as significant as a Samsung Flagship, Google’s devices, even the Nexus line earlier, have took pleasure in enthusiastic third-party designer support. This is the reason why the Nexus 5, released in Q4 2013, can be updated most current Android 8.1 Oreo, 5 years later. Google Pixel gadgets are […]
Hardware style lovers ought to already be salivating just taking a look at this image. however [Ken Shirriff’s] review on exactly how the 8085 processor’s registers were developed will put you in silicon reverse-engineering heaven. He handles to get to the bottom of the techniques the designers utilized to make register gain access to as […]
Here’s a thermoelectric generator which [x2Jiggy] built. The concept uses heat from a flame, biased against cooler temperatures produced by that substantial heat sink making up the top portion of the build to produce electricity via the Peltier effect. The build is passively cooled, using a sync assembly that takes advantage of heat pipes to […]
A coworker approached us today wondering if they might get a performance increase utilizing Samsung’s recently revealed 256GB SSD. many of their work is performed in browser, so we stated “no”. They’d only see benefit if they were reading/writing big files. Their system has lots of RAM, as well as we chose to take a […]
liquid Tree is decorative, functional, and green. It’s a liquid feedback display created by [Jia Yi Lin] that is developed to tell you exactly how much water you’re wasting in the shower. Behind the pretty tubes is some interesting hardware. [Lin] used an Arduino board, and based her code off the Unipolar Stepper example. She’s […]
Ugobe has officially filed bankruptcy. This is bad news for Pleo. That lovable little dino bot is no longer being produced. If you’ve got one you might want to refrain from hacking, just in case it’s worth something one day. As the point out at Engadget, another toy company might buy up the rights, but […]
[Eric Archer] constructed an analog computer to model the physics of a bouncing ball. The core is a TL074 opamp that does all the integral math. He had no trouble finding descriptions of analog computers, but how to set the initial conditions was rarely covered. The controls include potentiometers to set the initial velocity, force […]
Vacuum formers are still relatively unusual in our community, so it was a surprise to see that in the 1960s Mattel marketed one as a toy. It utilized a hot plate to mold plastic sheets into different shapes. The style was updated by Toymax in the early ’90s to utilize a light bulb heating aspect […]
[Rob] sent in his Dell tiny 9 3G install. He gotten the Dell without the 3G option, but found that he truly desired it. He installed a tiny pcie bracket and found a sim connector that matched the specs he needed. apparently they utilize one that it unusual as it utilizes the first pin to […]