 In part 2 of ‘Things to do with 20 hard drives’ we will build a storage box out of one hard drives. The goal is to make the box look exactly like to original hard drive complete with screws and everything. And the finished box made that goal and looks exactly like the original except for in one angle. A note to anyone following these series, all parts of this projects end up in the ‘hard drive category’. Read more about the Hard drive storage box |
 I have twenty 3.5″ hard drives collecting dust in my garage (10Gb and all working) and I will use them to do things. What things I haven’t decided yet, but I already have a couple of ideas. The first one is almost finished and will be posted here in a day or two. -But- I need your help to come up with more ideas! In this first part we go through the, maybe trivial but vital, task of taking the drive apart in its components without damaging anything. Read more in Things to do with 20 hard drives |
 We’ve featured the wearable LED display before and thought that this might compliment it. A belt buckle made out of a personal video player, or PVP, based on the DmTech Av-10. In short it’s a PVP attached to a belt but it’s actually a lot more sofisticated then that. Have a look for yourself. Link: Lepow.com |
 Christmas time is comming and with it the urge to build all these nice blinking things that will drive your family crazy. I prefer building these ‘toys’ with LED’s much because there reliable, look good and are easy to control. But they come at a price and a good blue one is usually around $2-$3 which becomes wery expensive when you need a lot. Clyde Jones has a solution to this and writes:
Link: Inexpensive and Abundant LEDs |
 TCS230 is a simple colour sensor from Parallax and they’ve finally found the ultimate usage for it. To sort you M&M’s! Just imagine the possibilities to serve sorted candy when having friends over for the Friday night movie… Well, what it comes down to is that they have this available in several different kits starting with the frame and then growing to contain the micro controller and the sensors. What they won’t give you is the software and initially they held a contest of who could write the best source code for it. The winner got $300 cash and $200 worth of software. Link: Parallax M&M sorter contest and kits |
 When I bought my HP Bluetooth headphones I ran into compatibility problems with TomTom and it took a couple of turns before I got around it. A lot of people has the same problem with all kinds of Bluetooth devices in combination with TomTom which installs its own Bluetooth drivers even though it’s not really necessary for it to work properly. Here’s my take on the problem. |
 It’s that time of the year which always make me nervous. You just -have- to buy -everyone- all these presents and usually keep me awake later and later each night as we get closer to the end of December. WHAT SHOULD I GET EVERYONE screams a voice in my head. Don’t fear - make is here! Makazine has compiled a great list of mostly sub $100 cool things to please at least your tech friends and your children of the technological sex. Everything from FM transmitters that are plugged into your USB port ($25), to a kit to make these ’spinning wheel’ displays ($15). Link: MAKE’s Mostly Under $100 Gift Guide 2005! |
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