Talking of
modding challenges, check out this icy build, which I saw over the weekend.
Thanks to
Techeblog for this one, where you can also see a
picture gallery of the cool modded machine.
"This custom CoolIT PC by 19-year-old Dominic Heise is loaded up with a heavy duty Boreas liquid cooling rig, along with 15 neatly arranged fans in the back of the case," writes the website.
You can read more on the
CoolIT forum.
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We love product teardowns on
Gadget Master. It's great to build things, but it's also great (and, yes, sometimes instructive) to see them taken apart...
Check out this teardown of a
Sony VAIO Z Series laptop with Quad SSD. Carrying out the dissection is the product's project leader, Takamitsu Kasai.
Thanks to
Engadget:
Continue reading "Sony VAIO Z Series laptop - Teardown" »
On his blog Becoming Cyborg, inventor Martin Magnusson has revealed his own wearable computer.
Much Velcro means he can reconfigure it - inside a CD carry case, or spread out on a shoulder belt - which is not pretty, but damn fine for a prototype.
Continue reading "Beagleboard takes Martin closer to Machine" »
After Via Technologies introduced the tiny - for its time - Mini-ITX motherboard form factor, folk started stuffing PCs into all sorts of enclosures.
Cigar humidors were popular, and one of my favourites was a
plastic cow PC by Stan Maynard, described in detail at
Mini-ITX.com.
Continue reading "What ever happened to novelty PC home-builds? " »
Here's a good book for all budding Gadget Masters that has only just come to my attention -
62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer by Randy Sarafan, who is described as a New Media artist but may be better known to you through his work for the excellent
Instructables.com.
His raw material is old tech detritus - decrepit mobile phones, broken printers, unusable iPods, dusty digital cameras, and the usual collection of cables and wires - and from these unpromising beginnings he shows how to finish a number of interesting projects.
For example, how about a DIY digital projector, a portable amplifier, a keyboard lamp, or mobile phone torch? Or even an iMac Terrarium or a flat-screen ant farm? Not forgetting a RAM money clip or a USB desktop fan!
Continue reading "Projects to Make with a Dead Computer" »
I don't know if you have been following the Raspberry Pi project - it looks very promising material for Gadget Masters - but a £20 Raspberry Pi computer sold for
£3,500 on eBay last night, writes Steve Bush. It is intended to cost under £20 when it goes into production.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation, which intends to sell its educational computers directly, auctioned 10 of its beta production board on eBay.
As executive director Eben Upton pointed out in a video on the Foundation's website, this limited auction was aimed at: computer collectors, benefactors intending to donate to the foundation - which is a charity, and software development firm's wanting hardware before full-production boards are released later this month.
Continue reading "Raspberry Pi #0001 goes for £3,500 on eBay" »
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