Hackit: Community hacking project?

January 27, 2008 By 154 Comments


By popular request, I’ve added a hackit category. Today’s hackit is one of my coffee shop creations. Considering the quality of work we’ve seen, I can’t help but wonder… If the Hack-A-Day community were to come together and produce a joint collaborative hardware project, what could it build? A modular robotics platform? A digital I/O platform for other projects? If … Read the rest

Filed Under: HackIt

Replace your LCD power supply

January 27, 2008 By 33 Comments


[Computer Guru]‘s LCD power supply went out, making it a useless pile of plastic. He used an old computer PSU to replace the defective one. After he identified the outputs on the built-in supply (The one’s I’ve pulled apart were labelled) he stripped down the replacement PSU to provide the necessary voltages.… Read the rest

Filed Under: computer hacks, peripherals hacks