Comments on: Hackaday links

By: calgar

calgar — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:48:20 +0000

anyone have a mirror of the bubble torch and/or the portable n64, gah i hate freewebs, and bravenet

By: Indigent

Indigent — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:03:24 +0000

That molex connector link seems to be dead or broken, so I didn’t get to see what they suggest using for pin removers.
For the pins inside of the larger power connectors (i.e. to a hard drive), I use the straws off of CapriSun juices. They are the perfect size, and since I am friggin addicted to Red Berry, I have a large surplus of them on my floor. hehe.

By: fucter

fucter — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:08:00 +0000

I dont know why nobody mentioned the line follower robots, they are friggin’ cool, im gonna make one next week. super cool shit, as always thanks for the links guys, eliot, hackaday and weblogs inc..

By: dm14

dm14 — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:12:18 +0000

Bunch of fat, lazy kids can’t even get their asses up to push the on/off button on their PS2? Wonderful…

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:15:20 +0000

I respect the effort of the USB dongle, but man is that thing huge!
They are pocket-sized now!

Still a very nice way to demonstrate the concept, however.
A built-it-yourself USB to Serial dongle would be an awesome educational project on so many levels.

By: togi

togi — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:01:35 +0000

sorry to disappoint you, it’s just a fancy interface.

By: Bucky

Bucky — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:20:18 +0000

Could somebody explain the “OSX in your browser” link? Is this supposed to be some sort of web-based OS X interface with web-based apps, or is this just a fancy interface for a website about a special version of OS X?

By: daguuy

daguuy — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:49:49 +0000

i noticed that link to my portable N64 doesn’t work, here’s the real one: http://www.freewebs.com/daguuy/m64.htm

By: toaster

toaster — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:42:24 +0000

That bubble torch is awesome, I might have to try and make one of thoes.

By: precisionentropy

precisionentropy — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:31:39 +0000

and i thought they were “for tobacco use only”. Who knew your local head shop had the major components for a high-temp blowtorch? seriously though, your average water pipe would be perfect for the bubbletorch.

By: joshua holbrook

joshua holbrook — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 05:36:00 +0000

Captsnuffy–I think they do have special mini-irons. The guy at the computer repair shop mentioned it (Me and Pa tried to fix my brother’s laptop by ourselves…it eventually arced and I felt like a dumbass.).

By: Captsnuffy

Captsnuffy — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 05:24:47 +0000

wow, the PS2&Xbox in one case that the dude in the PS2 doorbell link is awesome.

Ghetto pc is um… dope… yo.

how do people solder those tiny SMT componets like the ones on the usb-rs232 dongle? i’d say that it’d be impossible to do with a regular iron.

By: ry

ry — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:11:01 +0000

that sub looks yummy.. and that pc is definitly ghetto-ized. *nod*