20110408 DIY: Replacing a Sony DSC T1 CCD sensor

This was an “old” pocket camera mrdoob bought back in 2004. I quite liked it, but one day we went on holidays, found out we had forgotten to bring the camera with us, and I ended up buying another pocket camera, thus relegating the T1 to perpetual oblivion. Which was a bit of a shame, [...]

20101011 LASE by marcan & thePope

It seems Marcan managed to rebuild his DIY laser projector (which incidentally burnt out right after we saw it in action for its last public broadcast :D) and he’s recorded a new, crisp and clean video of the output: I hadn’t noticed some of the details when I watched it at the party, such as [...]

20100913 Misclinklanea, 3

Solar powered hotspots. Beautiful and exciting story. More like these, please –these projects fascinate me! ~ The Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino (Spain’s equivalent to DEFRA) doesn’t get it: the new version of its own cartographic and satellite maps viewer (SIGPAC) will use Silverlight. Yet another failed opportunity to jump onto [...]

20100705 Building a quiet PC

My main computer is a PC I assembled myself two years ago. While I don’t like fixing somebody else’s computer, I quite enjoy fine-tuning mine and learning about it in the process. It is a bit of a beast (for my purposes) with a Quad Core and lots of memory, hard disk bays (I never [...]

20080131 DIY: Replacing my powerbook’s hard drive

It is a natural-born traveller: I had owned it for less than one month and was already travelling to Barcelona with it; next came several more visits to different cities, in Spain (Madrid, Valencia, Seville) or in Europe indistinctly (Frankfurt, Helsinki). It even was my commuting companion during the month that I was working in [...]