diy

Cleaning the Apple Keyboard

Here is a short utorual 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 [...]

Kickass watches

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. The Nixie Tube Digital Wristwatch! 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 [...]

Cell Phone Oscillscope

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 [...]

Random Lines

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.