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DIY Printed Circuit Boards with the “Toner Transfer” Method

Beginners · Author Stuyo · April 24, 2009 · 50937 reads · ★★★★★ (31 votes)

Most probably everyone of you who makes his own small electronic project at somepoint needed or will soon need to make himself a printed circuit board (PCB) for a given item. This is not at all difficult and in today's article we will show you a short guide how to make such PCBs with the most common method at home –…

DIY Gaming computer table

Beginners · Author Stuyo · April 3, 2008 · 43311 reads · ★★★★☆ (27 votes)

For a complete gaming satisfaction, it's mandatory to have good machine, good monitor and quality controllers, but no less important is to have a comfy table to put them all on. Our market is flooded with computer tables, but most look as if there were made from people that have never seen a computer in their life.…

Design your own remote control

Visual Mods · Author Данчо Николов a.k.a Говедо · November 26, 2007 · 20084 reads · ★★★★★ (10 votes)

With this guide I'll show you how to make ne design for your remote control, be it for a tv, DVD, stereo, air conditioner or anything else... After long and uneven fight my remote fell victim of gravity. Its Spirit* was healthy, but its body was shattered despite of the care i took for it. A lazy man's choice would be…

DIY Waterchill Asetek LCD

Visual Mods · Author Stuyo · November 5, 2007 · 21964 reads · ★★★★☆ (8 votes)

Little more than a year ago Asetek water cooling pumps appeared on the PC market in Bulgaria. As you may have noticed, they have the optinal LCD connector. In this guide I will show how you can make one yourself. The price of such an LCD is 40 Euro, while my solution cost only a foutrth of this price and also can be…

How to make a spiral SATA cable

Visual Mods · Author sineoc · November 3, 2007 · 37549 reads · ★★★★★ (16 votes)

Although SATA cables moved case tidiness light years ahead compared to the IDE ATA cables, there is always room for more improvement. In this "How to" you will see how without any special tools or skills you can take care of all that wiring in your case... This is my answer for the long SATA cable... What you need: 1.…

Sprucing up a flash drive

Visual Mods · Author D_Ave · October 29, 2007 · 13405 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

This is a thing i meant to do for quite awhile now, but was unable because i couldn't find appropriate casing :) As it turns out other people have already thought about this , but it matters not. I've never seen such a mod at any Bulgarian forum or website. Ever try PEZ? I haven't - until yesterday, but once I tasted…

Moding a boar oh how i made use of another election day

Visual Mods · Author Данчо Николов a.k.a. Говедо · October 28, 2007 · 11848 reads · ★★★☆☆ (5 votes)

Instead of introduction . Introduction like it's supposed to be. Old jokes are to blame. Do you know this? A pig walks into a men's house and sees a wall-plug* and starts to squeal - Bloody basta*** they had walled in Jimmy! * Well at least our wall-plugs resembe a pig snout. Actially Gruio is ideological brothet of…

Cellphone holder out of CD

Visual Mods · Author DeMoN · September 25, 2007 · 19242 reads · ★★★☆☆ (12 votes)

Hello folks, today I'll show you how to make a cellphone holder out of CD. What you need: CD Scissors Ruler (I used a floppy disk) Candle Put together on a picture it looks like this: (click on the photos for larger ones) We start by drawing the lines by which we will cut: And then we cut: We check our pockets for a…

Facelift for an UPS or "Well it's white"

Visual Mods · Author Данчо Николов a.k.a Говедо · July 17, 2007 · 8027 reads · ★★★★☆ (3 votes)

Click! Bzzzzzz! Beep, beep, beeep, beep, beeeeeeeeeeep! Click! -Dog gonit! That dear radiolisteners was an 350VA UPS powering 19" CRT monitor and computer during power failure. And in just a moment you can enjoy the new radio drama series "Death of Mary - Queen of Scots". All that mean only that i need a new one. So i…

Totem mod or how to hide the mouse receiver

Visual Mods · Author Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq · October 29, 2006 · 11841 reads · ★★★★☆ (3 votes)

"The result is pleasing for the eyes, although totally unpractical and using more space on my table." The idea for the following mod came from this picture i saw in the Internet: It's author had modified it into this: The object of my attention is the small bear-shaped totem in the lower right end of the picture. As…

Croccodile mod :)

Visual Mods · Author Говедо · October 23, 2006 · 10588 reads · ★★★★☆ (4 votes)

At some point in the past i saw in a store small fluffy crocodile. I thought – Now ain't he going to look awsome chewing on a flash drive? The thought faded in the background in mere 10 seconds. But it was not erased. My subconsciousness had chewed it up, looked at it from all the angles and when five days ago i saw a…

DIY Diode Fan Controller - The Diobus

Visual Mods · Author Stuyo · October 18, 2006 · 16954 reads · ★★★★☆ (6 votes)

Cheap fan controller. Currents up to 1A, easy to make, also with flashy light indication... The controller was made base on: http://www.cpemma.co.uk/sdiodes.html