Seems that there is no end to the inventiveness of people out there. Kees Ricken has hacked his USB drive into something unique. “After about 9 months of use my Apacer Handysteno USB-memory stick casing was damaged so badly that I decided to make a new casing. But what to use… So, I went looking in shops for something that I could use as a new casing for my memory-stick.
Fast MHz has made another EM rocket. You might remember their other EM projects from a few months ago. “Hi all…after seeing my gauss gun appreciated here, I figure I’ll share my latest gadget: EM Rockets! That’s right, “rockets” launched with nothing more than electricity. Unlike gauss guns/coilguns, which are reluctance based, these are induction based…electricity goes through a coil, which imparts a current into aluminum, which then itself becomes
Interesting CD changer contraption. I am all for automating boring processes! “The software for this gadget is relatively simple. I wrote a simple command line driven program that sequences the machine through picking a CD from the tray and dropping it in the middle, and piking up a CD from the stack on the left, and dropping it in the tray. The software also has some manual controls, which I
I would have never thought it would be possible to ride a unicycle in snow, I guess with the right equipment anything is possible. “I’ve been riding my bicycle to school every day this year but then the snow came… A racing bike just didn’t cut it. It was time to throw the snow chains back on the unicycle. I first made the chains a few years ago and have
What are these manufactures thinking? The next generation is going to grow up thinking pulling the heads off things is perfectly normal. This Teddy Bear USB drive is not the first rip off the head storage device, have a look at the Barbie USB drive. “Teddy Bear got his head stuck in the computer? No. This is a Teddy Bear USB drive and it may be the most hilarious storage
Got a box of old hard drives doing nothing. Put them to work housing your new computer components. “While waiting for parts to arrive and new ideas to sprout up on my CLOWNED project, I’ve started another. I’m building a custom case made of Hard Drives. All of the HD’s are DEAD. Many are 2GB and below, 1 is the 120GB HD I had in Air Force One that died.
Google is building a new computing center that could house up to 450,000 servers. Could you imagine what it would sound like if they were all jet engine fan cooled? “The computer servers that fill huge data centers are producing more heat with every new generation of processors. It’s a problem that’s sending engineers on a search for cooling fans that are both small enough to fit inside ever-smaller server
