Here is a shor tutorual I wrote a while back to document cleaning the older white and clear keyboard. This does not apply to the newer think keyboards Apple released in 2007.
I love the design of Apple keyboards. The clean while surface supported by clear plastic looks great. However, after a few weeks of use (and eating at my computer) the keyboard became quite dirty. After a while, the device became so dirty that I purchased a second one. Since I could sacrifice one keyboard to experimentation - I did just that.
I have managed to clean both keyboards several time with no ill side-effects so far. I can’t say that this won’t destroy your nice keyboard, but here are the steps I take.
Things you will need:
Begin by using your screwdriver to pry the keys off. Be careful - the board is resilient but you can still scratch it.
I got quite a bit of interest from the Kickass Clocks post so I thought I would do a follow up. Now, for the neatest watches in the world.
By Jeff Thomas / Resonant Instruments LLC
http://www.amug.org/~jthomas/watch.html
This is the really little brother of the NixiChron clock. The fact that he managed to fit all of the components in to such a small packagaing - and fit four vacuum tubes in it is amazing. They require about 180vdc to power…your average AA battery puts out just 1.5 for comparison.
By Cathode Corner - $395
http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/index.html
This watch was inspired by the one above. It uses an entirely different design - tubes and power supply. It looks a little more like a watch than the above one but uses only two display tubes.
by Tokyo Flash - ¥16,900 / $170
http://www.tokyoflash.com/en/watches/tokyoflash/negative/
If you want to show your geeky side with pride, this is the watch for you! This is the first of the mass produced watches on this list. Tokyo Flash makes some amazing watches. They focus on innovative ways of displaying the time to make reading it unintuitive. If this watch isn’t for you, check out some of the other ones they offer.
By Todd Bailey - $?
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/05/concept_bling_binary_led.html
This watch is for the DIY crowd and would probably appeal to the BOFH-type personality. You know, the guy who wants you to know that he is better at technology, computers, and anything else that uses electricity than you do. This watch isn’t for the casual enthusiast - no only do you have to build it, but it tells the time in bianary. Reading it takes a bit of practice but can become second nature to the true aplha-nerds
By Roger Riehl - $?
http://forums.watchuseek.com/showthread.php?p=1366081
This was an amazing device. It was the first mass produced LED wristwatch and was designed never to need adjustment.
From http://www.soluhr.com/sync.htm
Independent inventor Roger Riehl designed the most advanced wrist timepiece devised up to that time. His goal was to built an extremely accurate timepiece that required no service, could withstand great variation of temperature, was shockproof, was waterproof to great depths, was visible in any lighting conditions, and had multiple functions. In short, his goal seemed to be to build the ultimate wristwatch that would simultaneously overcome all of the traditional challenges to the wristwatch.
If you have five free minutes, you have to check out this post about the $5 cell phone oscilloscope. The display (including non-existent divisions!) is from an old Nokia phone and the CPU is a PicAxe 08M.
It is things like this that make me want to go back and get my EE degree. (Not that I don’t like my B.A. in Journalism - but EE is just a little more nerdy)
From the page:
- Vertical fixed at 5V full screen (or 0.5V per division, if it had divisions.)
- Horizontal Sweep fixed at (approximately) 43mS full screen when over-clocked at 8MHz (or 4.3mS per imaginary division.)
- Trigger fixed at 1/2 the peak-to-peak signal (with a time-out when there is no signal.)
- Non-portable (unless you want to carry my entire workbench some place.)
- Very Affordable (about $4.50; $3.50 for the PicAxe, $1.00 for the phone, everything else I had on hand.)
- Visible in Day Light (the LCD Backlight is not connected.)
- All Solid-State (using ultra-reliable E-Z Clip Technology.
Source:
http://www.geocities.com/Minimalist_Oscilloscope_08M_Proj/Minimalist_Oscilloscope_08M_Project.html
What happens when you feed a laser scanner pseudo random data? I did not really intend to find out but I did on accident. The results are kind of neat.
http://www.ineedcaffeine.com/videos/random.flv