Turn an Old Hard Drive into an External Hard Drive

Odds are you have spare hard drives lying around from old computers. Instead of tossing them out or letting them collect dust, you can easily turn them into DIY external hard drives and use them to backup your important files.Basically all you have to do is pick up a cheap hard drive enclosure, stuff the old...
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Touch Screen, Linux-Based Digital Guitar

Electric guitars require vibrations to create sound.  While they sound cool, this places an enormous amount of restraint on the guitar largely because the you have to concentrate on plucking perfectly and only have one hand free. The Misa digital guitar aims to change that.The creator of this cool Linux...
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How to: Boost your Linksys Wireless Router Signal

The Linksys WRT54G router is a low cost and versatile wireless device which can be bought for about $30 on Ebay. What makes it powerful is that its firmware can be easily modded and replaced by third party firmware such as DD-WRT, a Linux-based, open source alternative which boosts the power of the device. The...
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How to: Install Android on the Nook Color

A clever modder installed CyanogenMod 7 (a version of Android) onto a Nook Color.  For around $200, it’s a super cheap Android tablet with an 800MHz processor and flash support. The video tutorial below will walk you through the install proce...
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DIY Open Source Laptop

We’ve seen open source computing power grow steadily over the years:  First the Arduino, then the Raspberry Pi, and now the open source laptop.  Yes, you read that correctly:  the goal of this project is to create a laptop built entirely with open source materials.  The laptop is powered...
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