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Using an USB External IDE HD Enclosure with an Internal DVD+RW

I’m super glad I ran across this post before shelling out the money to buy and external DVD+R/RW for my netbooks.  I pulled a Homer S. and asked myself why I didn’t think of this before…

Atmel AVR Butterfly Demo Board

I’m not sure why I haven’t run across this in the past, but I just saw an AVR demo board called the AVR Butterfly.  It has an LCD, joystick, speaker, temperature sensor, a real-time clock, voltage sensor, and serial port all for an amazing $20 over at Mouser or DigiKey.  The whole package is about [...]

Repair an Ethernet Prong with Zip-Ties

There’s a good tutorial over at Instructables on making custom ethernet prongs out of zip-ties if the original snapped off.  I had a busted cat5 cable causing me trouble and, surprisingly, I had the right size zip ties stowed away in my electronic gear.  So, I gave it a shot.

The result ended up better than [...]

How to: Laptop battery hack.

Somewhat recently I bought an Acer Aspire One netbook and have been very happy with it so far.  However, one of the downsides is the lack of battery power.  This blog post shows you a DIY upgrade of your original battery.  Creating a battery that is 3 times the weight of the laptop seems to [...]

Site Update

I’ve been busy recently, but I’ve still managed to build a MiniPOV device and an USBTinyISP programmer. They are both kits from LadyAda.net and were not difficult to assemble. I intend to write up my experiences building them and my future modifications, one of which is adding pins on the POV device to [...]