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.
This article goes through the steps required to photo etch your own copper clad circuit boards. There is a relatively small amount of hardware that is required and the steps are quite simple. If you have done the toner transfer method in the past why not move to the next level? If you are thinking of making your own circuit boards there are a few option: * The easiest is
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.
If you are thinking of growing some plants indoors LEDs might be what you are looking for. BVnursery has built some LED panels for growing plants and has had some great results. “The target of the project is to develop an inexpensive, effective method of providing light to plants using only leds. This unit is designed to light standard horticultural starter trays measuing 10 x 20″. The logic follows several
If you have turned your MacBook into a lightsaber already, you might want to try out this cool iTunes plugin that takes control of the keyboard and screen backlight. “Using an iTunes visualizer plugin from stewreo.de/keyboarddisco.html. I dimmed the backlight on the screen for better visibility of the keyboard, but the plugin can also flash the screen backlight with the music.” Via: TechEBlog and Make
UtahNature has a few interesting emergency light project uses a few white LEDs to create an inexpensive light. Project 1 Project 2 “We will describe constructing an emergency light using 3 or 4 white LEDs fitted into a 1/2 or 3/4 inch PVC pipe coupling and mounted into a clamp-on miniture light housing. Since most radio shacks have a 13.8 VDC emergency supply, we will configure the light to use
I almost fell off my chair laughing when I saw the Techno-Addict Scarf. “Advertise to the world that you’re alone and want to stay that way with a privacy scarf developed by Joe Malia, a grad student who apparently can’t do without his portable media. Besides being completely dorky-looking, we can’t imagine this garment being anywhere near comfortable. How can you breathe in the thing?”
