Like the old Life Cereal commerical (with a twist), the PartyofNoicans know they can reach out to The Politico's Mike Allen. "Let's get Mikey, he prints anything!" He was probably so excited, jumping with glee, that the cronies of the Bush Grindhouse gave him another meme to push, that Allen forgot ...

[scott] had a need to capture a mouse and wanted to learn about how to program an arduino, so he built an Arduino controlled mousetrap. It is made from things he had laying around the house, like some Tupperware containers and wooden rods. The program is pretty simple, when a trip wire is touched, t...

Do you have a digital SLR camera, some black construction paper, aluminum foil, a rubber band, and tape? Great, let's make a digital pinhole camera! The pinhole camera is the simplest type of camera. It has no lens, only a teeny-tiny hole of an iris. This pinhole ensures that the light which reaches...

Apple iTunes is a fantastic service, used by millions of people every week of the year. It’s easy-to-use, has almost every song you could care to buy (damn The Beatles), and is also reasonably priced. Having [...]...

In another installment of her ongoing efforts to mod the Acer Aspire 1, [tnkgrl] has added eSATA capabilities. During the hard drive upgrade she did, she used the spare PATA connection, leaving an SATA connection free. This time she has gone in and extended it to be accessible outside the case. To d...

Olivia Hack, Rory’s ditzy Yale roommate Tana Shrick in Gilmore Girls, has been hard at work since the series ended. She’s been involved in the Bratz franchise and in 16 episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Most recently, Olivia was the voice of Charlene in Open Season 2, which came ou...

Welcome to part 4 of a multi-part post on moddng the Acer Aspire One! In part 1, I showed how to take the Aspire One apart, how to upgrade the RAM, and how to add internal Bluetooth. In part 2, I showed how to replace the SSD with a 1.8″ PATA hard drive and how to reassemble the Aspire One. In par...

Cockeyed.com is a peculiar site. It is spattered with links in an almost unintelligible manner, but if you dig hard enough, or just click randomly, you can find some pretty fun stuff. One nice writeup they’ve done is how to replace the lens in their point and shoot camera. This one happens to ...

I'm probably not alone in saying that I used to code adventure games on my TI-85 when I was younger, but Sam Heald's Super Mario reproduction is so much cooler: Super Mario features beautiful graphics courtesy of Bill Nagel, 13 unique enemies, 64 unique background tiles (some with animation), fast s...

I recently had to reformat my hard drive, which meant a complete reinstall of the Sims. Fortunately I was able to save my downloads and my neighborhoods, but since starting the game up again none of my Sims can use the phone. If someone calls them it's fine, but if they try to call anyone they jump ...