posted 03-22-2001 12:45            

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i have an electronics course this half of the year and for my final i have to create a circuit. it can be anything i want.

now i wanna make something for my computer. from scratch.... any idea's of what i could make. and try to be reseonable.

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posted 03-22-2001 12:50            

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something FOR you computer? Like a gift? Or a CPU-therm, fan, mouse? what? I don't understand...

Ah well.. not technical at all. Going to fire up that good old photoshop then, and be creative or something, maybe for PenIs even...

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posted 03-22-2001 13:06            

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Way 'back in the day, before Sound Blasters were available, people used to make handmade Digital-To-Analog converters and plug them into the LPT (printer) port and play .wav files through them - it was the cheap way to get .MODs and such to play on your stereo instead of on the little fucker that beeps whenever you kick the power button.

It's fairly easy to do, and you should still be able to find a pre-made software package that will send the WAV out through the printer port for you so you can demonstrate the fact that it works.

If you want to do this and can't find enough info yourself off the search engines, let me know and I'll dig through my old text files and hook you up.

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posted 03-22-2001 13:22            

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i was thinking or turning a regular mouse into an optical

if any of you can make a schematic for me that would be great. or sumthin like that i dunno but keep the idea's coming

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posted 03-22-2001 14:32            

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How about you make a LED-display for a 5.25" bay that shows your CPU- and memory usage.

That would be uber-cool.

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posted 03-22-2001 15:04            

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Optical mice are kinda complex little critters for a hand-soldered breadboard job.

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posted 03-23-2001 04:22            

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Create a circuit from scratch?

Oh. Well. Obviously you need to create a 1ghz processor. You can do that from scratch, right? I've got some extra wire and solder if you need to borrow it. Oh, nevermind. I'm all out of flux. shit.

Hmm.

A couple dozen peltier devices wired to a temperature control. That would be cool (pardon the pun).

Whats your budget?

-Chris

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posted 03-23-2001 15:15            

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i dunno i have 11 weeks so im thinkin around 50 cuz im a poor bastard

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posted 03-29-2001 20:10            

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So decide anything yet, neun?

For some reason I have this urge to call you Newt. Too much Aliens, I suppose.

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You take a 98-percent concentration of fuming nitric acid and add the acid to three times that amount of sulfuric acid. Do this in an ice bath. Then add glycerin drop-by-drop with an eye dropper. You have nitroglycerin.

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posted 03-29-2001 20:40            

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You should make a flux capaciter, so we could travel back in time. Just remember that we need 1.21 jigawatts of power. If you really feel up to the challenge, you could make Mr. Fusion. Hope that helps.

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posted 03-29-2001 20:57            

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new-en-tote-er

well i think ive decided on making a few things instead of one
im going to make an infrared transmitter for my ti-85 calc along with a program to control it, i might put a thin thin plexi glass window with a led light on the back panel of my graphing calc so i can be l33+

and im going to make an infrared reciever for my comp so i can control my winamp with my tv remote

also i gonna mod my mouse and add clear strips to the top and put lights in it

and a plexi window mod on my tv remote

that way i can be utlra 3l33+

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posted 03-29-2001 22:55            

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New-en-to-ter?

Is that like tee-to-tal-er?

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You take a 98-percent concentration of fuming nitric acid and add the acid to three times that amount of sulfuric acid. Do this in an ice bath. Then add glycerin drop-by-drop with an eye dropper. You have nitroglycerin.

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posted 03-29-2001 22:56            

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Oh! And yeah, a Flux Capacitor sounds awesome! Good idea, sticky.

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You take a 98-percent concentration of fuming nitric acid and add the acid to three times that amount of sulfuric acid. Do this in an ice bath. Then add glycerin drop-by-drop with an eye dropper. You have nitroglycerin.

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posted 03-29-2001 23:24            

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hey nuentoter is german i like it ok?

gwar gwar gwar gwar

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posted 03-30-2001 10:55         

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Build an infared detector for your computer, so you can control it by remote control.
http://gware.virtualave.net/ has some software and links to supported hardware, most of which have plans for building the device.

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