My 500 GB iMac SATA hard drive died the other day.  After replacing it, I wanted to have a little fun before discarding the drive.  See the disassembly photos after the jump.

I need some help.  I have a PCB that I can’t identify and I am hoping someone can shed some information on this. It is a Packard Instrument PCB from 1971.  It has the numbers 7100398 and 5065082 on the board.  There are 7 RCA DR-2110 Numitron tubes soldered to the fron and each one [...]

This is a video I made while out taking photos this evening.  The original duration was about 14 minutes and was sped up by 3,000% to a final duration of just under 30 seconds.  It was filmed with my canon 5D Mark II and Sigma 1.4 50mm and post processing was done in Adobe Premiere [...]

Segmentus clock (concept) By Art Lebedev – $n/a http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/segmentus/ From the guy who brought us the Verbarius clock comes the Segmentus.  (Is anyone else noticing a naming pattern here?) This concept clock was built to address the challenge of creating a digital clock with hands.  While clocks have addressed this challenge before, this one brings [...]

Good news!  It looks like Canon is adding 24P video to the 5d Mark II.  Even more exciting, in my opinion, is that the audio auto gain control is being modified so users can disable this feature or manually set the gain.  If you’ve ever recorded audio on this camera, you will appreciate this feature.  [...]

We recently just launched Social Bundle to help small and medium businesses build out their social presence online.  The program is simple – it costs less than a cell phone and we will build a custom Facebook Page / public profile, a personalized Twitter account and monitor both of them for you. We focus on [...]

This video was shot between 10:30PM and 1:30AM starting on 3/3/2010 from the Minneapolis Grain Exchanging looking east. Shots were taken at 10 second intervals and the final playback speed is 30fps.  A Sigma 50mm 1:1.4 was used at about f/2.8 allowing for 1/40th second exposures.  The frames were rendered in to a high quality [...]