News from gadgets' world » DIY http://blog.pcnews.ro www.blogpcnews.com Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:43:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.pcnews.ro http://blog.pcnews.ro/wp-content/plugins/maxblogpress-favicon/icons/favicon-60.ico News from gadgets' world DIY: build a PC from a … KIT http://blog.pcnews.ro/2008/02/13/diy-build-a-pc-from-a-kit/ http://blog.pcnews.ro/2008/02/13/diy-build-a-pc-from-a-kit/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:34:56 +0000 Raluca http://blog.pcnews.ro/2008/02/13/diy-build-a-pc-from-a-kit/ Let’s assume that you are a computer beginner and you want to build your own PC. Good! What are your options? First learn from the Internet how to do it. Second, buy components from online shops. Now you wait for components. Put them together and here is your new PC!

Unfortunately in practice is not so easy like above story. Sometimes the components aren’t compatible so before to order you should ask some friends or study a lot from Internet. A lot of efforts…

The good news: Easy as my PC provide you PC Kits according to your needs. In this way they guarantee you that the components are fully compatible. Moreover, they provide fully illustrated assembly instructions, so you can do it right.

They claim that Easy As My PC Computer Kits can save you over $410 – $1,065 vs Pre-Assembled Dell Computers (depends of the configuration).

In a Pre-Assembled computers your upgrade options are limited, but in this way you can in the future have any upgrade you want. Also, you will learn from this experience.

Warranties are provided directly by the manufacturers of the products that are sold by Easy As My PC. Additional they provide a call service: 1-888-EASY-020.

Easy As My PC Kits include:

Plain-English, fully illustrated assembly instructions
Motherboard
Processor
RAM
Graphics card or integrated chipset
Hard drive
Optical drives
Expansion card options (e.g., TV Tuner, Modem)
Keyboard and mouse
Monitor options
Computer case
Cooling equipment
Power supply
All required cables
Operating system
Manufacturer Warrantees

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Disco Ball

You’ll need unwanted CDs, styrofoam ball, glue gun or craft glue, bamboo skewer, fishing wire. Cut the CDs into little squares and stick them on the styrofoam ball.

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HP printer

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costume Halloween


Here are the supplies you’ll need:

  • 3/4″ x 1-1/2″ Ferring Strips
  • 1″ and 1-1/2″ Long Drywall Screws
  • 1/8″ Thick Plywood
  • Plastic Bathroom Corner Trim (slides on to the end of paneling)
  • 1/2″ Long Finishing Nails
  • Spray Paint
  • Plexiglas
  • Laptop

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    building an open source self balancing scooter

    Movie after jump…

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    No tag for this post.]]>     http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/30/diy-homeade-segway/feed/ 0     The war against cable clutter http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/the-war-against-cable-clutter/ http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/the-war-against-cable-clutter/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:02:19 +0000 Raluca http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/the-war-against-cable-clutter/ Can be won in a easy why and isn’t too expensive.

    The war against cable clutter

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    This is the parts list:

    * 2 G clamps, cheap type, made in China: R$ 3.40 each, R$ 6.80 total (US$ 3.50).
    * 1 barbecue grill, cheap type: R$ 9.50 (US$ 4.88)
    * nylon cable ties, 100-pack: R$ 3.10 (US$ 1.59)

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    i don’t have the patience for a complete tutorial – i just spent the better part of the day working on it. Here’s the narrative… Hack and cut.

    nes-mouse.jpg

    nintendo-mouse03.jpg

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    Link: zieak

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    Transform an old laptop into a MP3 player

    Link instructables

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    This kit uses a microcontroller and discrete logic chips to provide the logic for a 12 hour clock based on IN-14 nixie tubes. It has hours, minutes and seconds, with colon separators.

    The kit is able to be programmed as a 12 or 24 hour clock, although the alarm function will not work fully for the 24 hour clock. The kit has additional features compared to the old kit, including an alarm, with snooze button, that can play any tune you desire, or make almost any sound (it uses a Picaxe 08M microcontroller to do this), two-level adjustable nixie brightness, separate 10-level colon brightness (and you can have either real neon or LED colons), LED tube uplighting with adjustable brightness (blue LEDs are supplied, not green as in the pic), am/pm indicator, and the option to have the display triggered by a small passive infrared detector module, so that the tubes are only lit when someone is within reading range of the clock…

    IN14 nixie clock kit

    Link

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    Notebook

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    This kit is not a toy which will yield tiny works of art. Each hologram will need to be put back in the rig to be viewed, but that just adds to the wonderful “science kit” feel of this fantastic DIY project.


    Design a Hologram Kit

    Link: ThinkGeek.com

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    BEATBOX

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