Ever want to change the color of your optical mouse? “This mod is very easy to do. It took me about 15 minutes from start to finish. Blue IMO looks much better than the red before. Much easier on my eyes. The skill level to do this mod is pretty low. The only thing you need to know how to do is solder, which is something that anyone can pick.
By using the internal motion sensor you can do some neat things! “Turns out, the laptop has a built-in motion sensor. Nominally, it’s there to protect the internal hard drive. The basic idea is this: If the accelerometer suddenly notices that the gravitational pull of earth is no longer present, the most likely explanation is that the laptop, sensor and all, is currently accelerating at 9.81 m/s² towards said earth.
This site includes the board layout and code to make this ATmega128 powered LED sign. If you speak German here is the original German site. “Again such a crazy project of me. It began with the fact that I with EBay a mountain LED of modules ersteigert. And from this this enormous LED became panel. Whom is too enormous, there is also a small brother. Here times the technical data:
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.
Here is a nice simple LED light chaser from the Hacked Gadgets Forum. There is a full schematic provided, I am not sure if the author will be providing the chip code however. “4 functions triggered by the length of time control button is pressed. 1. Tap once to change patterns. 2. Press and hold for 0.5 seconds until 2 Leds start flashing then release. Unit will power off. 3.
If you need to do some temperature measurement, this project will allow you to interface an inexpensive yet accurate sensor to your computer. “This small circuit can measure and on the Bildschirm/in of a log file spend/store a temperature exact up to 0.5 C° with a DS1820 Temeratursensor. That e.g. is. practically in order over Internet/Lan temperatures in areas to supervise (server area) or around the outside temperature on an
If you have an extra Nintendo controller laying around why not put it to good use and make it into a mouse. “If you are like me you get really excited when you find two Nintendo controllers at the Salvation Army. One was priced at $1.00 and the other at $.37 (i didn’t fight the pricing). Of course, they get home and meanwhile occupy a part of my brain that
