Fresh hacks every day
Here's a way to look hip and destroy books at the same time. This table cover is made from an old hardcover book. It's not difficult to do, an afternoon is all it takes, and if you follow all of the instructions we'd bet this will hold up for a long time. It's basically another version of the Moleskine cover for the Kindle Fire. You find a donor book (second-hand shops are packed with 'em) with … [Read more...]
[Kevin Haw] is the proud owner of a brand new Kindle Fire. But to protect the investment he wanted a nice looking case and decided that DIY was the way to go. He ended up repurposing a Moleskine journal as a table cover. You can do this one yourself in under an hour. Most of the pages in these journals are sewn in place and [Kevin] started by cutting the strings with a hobby knife. Once … [Read more...]
XDA forum member [craigbru] wanted to beef up the audio setup in his Jeep, and thought that his Nook Color would make a suitable replacement. Since he jailbroke the e-reader, the head unit upgrade lets him do just about anything you can imagine, all from the comfort of the driver’s seat. Seeing that he would continue to go off-road with the Jeep, he wanted to construct a mounting solution … [Read more...]
As devices get smaller and smaller, it becomes a bigger challenge for engineers to squeeze a product's components into an ever shrinking footprint. [Bulgarien] certainly found this to be the case with his Asus Eee Pad Transformer. He was not impressed with the volume or clarity of the tablet’s audio, so he disassembled it to see if he could somehow improve its performance. Once he got the Eee … [Read more...]
The hackers over at the xda-developers forum always seem to have something awesome brewing, and [fosser2] is no exception. He bought himself a Viewsonic G-tablet, but was a bit disappointed in its lack of a GPS module. He pried the tablet open in hopes of finding a spot where he might be able to cram one in, and was happily surprised at what he found. It turns out that either Viewsonic had … [Read more...]
[ProtoDojo] wanted to play a racing game on his iPad, but he was not a big fan of using the touch interface for this particular title. Instead, he put together a pretty neat little hack that allows him to play games on his iPad using an old NES controller. He built a set of custom conductive arms which he mounted on three micro servos. The servos were attached to the iPad screen using small … [Read more...]
[Marek Walther] uses a ThinkPad x41 tablet for business on a daily basis. Since he's on the go with the device he figures that hardware failure is eventually going to strike and with that in mind he purchased a second unit - slightly broken - to fix as a backup. He had never been excited about the speed of the tablet so he set out to find improvements. One of the options was to replace the … [Read more...]
Subscribe for weekly videos
Recent comments