How to transform a laser printer in a paper shredder. Also DIY LCD projector, poor man’s RAID and other case mods. (Quote : if someone gets killed, dismembered, maimed, emotionally scarred, or electrocuted, it’s their own damn fault).
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The house
Aaron and Jeannie bought an old house, started to restore and explain everything on their blog. « (…) if PA can build a house ON THE PRAIRIE from NOTHING, than we can restore this house. » [x]
Their option to make lemonade out of (…) lemons lead to self induced BB fame.
They also keep a day-to-day restoration diary,the web version of a home design scrapbook and lots of reviews, including home wiring.
More on wiring in this thread (feathured links: smarthome.com, mavromatic.com, swhowto.com, 9thtee.com).
Bob Catanzarite wired his house. He learned a lot and posted a comprehensive survey of his findings on a sepcialized site called Structured wiring HowTo. How nice. Bos points to a site called « Low Voltage Home Pre-Wire Guide Installation Information for the Do-it-Yourselfer« , wich could prove interesting (also in .pdf!).
(via) [Ed. 21 XI 05] Bod got Digged, thus beign Make:blog’ed again]
Linux on board: Blowing the lid off of TiVo
The TiVo runs on an Applefile system! (real effort has gone into making the machine harder and harder to tweak)
crystal radio
Cruft: gyro cooker
Michael Pusateri loves BBQ (US & Singapore style) cooking, and hacks to power it all, like this gyro cooker, a Smoker made from a Trash Can…
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tMac OS X running wild on PCs
Theory.isthereason, Kevin Lim (self-styled as a Mac cult leader ) nice Apple blog, is the best source of info I have found about this MacOSx86 thing.
Kevin Kelly — Cool Tools
Kevin Kelly‘s Cool Tools has some nice useful-things-you-don’t-really-need (spell it G-A-D-G-E-T). His living on the road section is where I first heard of Tom Bihn no-nonsense travel accessories.