The aims of the project were to: a) Reduce the noise level b) See if I could do it I was not looking to lower the temperature to improve the stability. Ive heard reports in forums of the 360 overheating but I have not noticed this myself. read more | digg story
Can your Commodore 64 play DVDs? I didn’t think so… If you want it to check this out! “The nice compact layout, the onboard features, the impulse-buyer-friendly price and the power (enough for the usual stuff while I have to feed my P4 with SETI or Folding@home just to keep it from becoming bored), had not passed unnoticed. I didn’t care too much about the power consumption, you need an
David Murray took the $20 Hummer Off Road Racing game and converted it into a working Commodore 64. Included on his site are instructions on how to hack the audio, video circuits to work better. “Inside, it contains the Commodore 64 DTV chip, designed by Jeri Ellsworth. It is the same chip being sold inside the Commodore 64 DTV Joystick currently being sold in Europe. (DTV = Direct to TV)
Thomas Grocutt has built a PC based oscilloscope. He has full plans and build information on his site so you can build your own! “The initial purpose of this project was to create a cheap, easy to use digital storage oscilloscope (DSO). However we have gone a bit further since the original idea. One of the biggest problems with most DSO’s is there small storage depth, we decided to solve
Jordi Bracke has gone about playing a CD the hard way. Instead of buying a $20 portable player he decided to interface a GameBoy system to play a CD using a computer ATAPI CD-ROM drive. Here is what you need to build your own: -A GameBoy to show track information and control the playing. -A GameBoy cartridge: we will need it to interface the GameBoy to a board. -An ATAPI
Got some extra floppy drives lying around? Why not put them to good use and build a RAID drive out of them! That is exactly what Scott Fudali did. Check it out here. Here are the hardware specs: * iBook G3/700MHz * 384 MB of RAM * Running OX 10.4.3 * 13 VST Floppy Drives * 6 USB 1.1 Hubs (Not all ports were used though)
Want to use your Power Glove as a mouse? Look no further, this is an interesting project to do just that. “The first step in making the pMouse is, of course, taking all the goods apart. I started with the component of the powerglove on the back of the hand. Once the black plastic casing is removed you can see the circuit board inside with lots of wires going to
