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• Items You Should Have on Hand When Building Your Own PC

  

  By chco : 17 January 2011 - 08:50 AM

  The following excerpt from Building the Perfect PC, Third Edition details the items you should have at hand before you actually start building your new system. Make a checklist and make sure you check...

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  • performance
  • assembly
  • hardware
  • pc

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• How to Design a Quiet PC

  

  By chco : 09 January 2011 - 09:35 PM

  If you're bothered by the loud noises your PC makes this excerpt from Building the Perfect PC, Third Edition gives you some options to make it quieter. Or you may decide to build your own PC and ...

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  • performance
  • assembly
  • hardware
  • pc

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• Hack your Kinect: Links and resources to get started

  

  By macslocum : 23 November 2010 - 07:09 AM

  Microsoft's Kinect is a hacker's dream. The combination of digital input, physical movement, sound and visuals inspires applications way beyond gaming. On first glance you can see how it could be used...

  Tags:

  • DIY
  • Kinect
  • hacks
  • hardware
  • drivers
  • open source

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• What you can do with Processing and Arduino

  

  By macslocum : 04 August 2010 - 04:46 AM

  Building a creation that translates software signals into physical movement brings with it a unique satisfaction. Joseph Gray has tapped into that satisfaction himself through art installations and vi...

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  • Hacking
  • Hardware
  • Arduino
  • Processing

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• 12V 12A power supply? (for OpenPCR)

  Asked by Tito Jankowski : 01 July 2010 - 09:17 AM

  

  Answered by Robert.Bruce.Thompson : Jul 02 2010 07:04 AM
  Hi, Tito This is a project that's dear to my heart. I definitely want to equip my home lab for DIY Bio. I already have a homemade DNA gel electrophoresis apparatus, and PCR is next on my wish lis... full answer >

  Tags:

  • openpcr
  • atx power supply
  • open source
  • hardware

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• How to Install Printers, Scanners, and Fax Machines on Windows 7

  

  By onwindows : 16 November 2009 - 11:28 AM

  To Windows 7, printers, scanners, and fax machines are all pretty much the same thing. Windows 7 prints to and accepts input from any of these devices in similar ways. What sets these device...

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  • Windows 7
  • printer
  • scanner
  • fax
  • hardware
  • peripherals

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• How to get live hardware snapshots with /proc

  

  By carlaschroder : 22 September 2009 - 10:15 AM

  If you want to monitor a running system in real time, and view things like physical memory and CPU information, or identify drives, read the /proc virtual filesystem. Use only cat to...

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  • linux
  • hardware
  • proc
  • monitoring

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• How to use dmesg to collect hardware information

  

  By carlaschroder : 22 September 2009 - 09:50 AM

  PCI is fine, but it's yesterday's news; you need an inventory of all the devices on the system, not just PCI devices. You're interested in USB devices, SCSI devices, memory configur...

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  • dmesg
  • hardware
  • linux

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• How to detect hardware with lspci

  

  By carlaschroder : 22 September 2009 - 09:41 AM

  If you want to know what components are installed inside a computer, and you don't feel like hauling the thing out, popping the case open, and tearing it apart, use lspci: # /sbin...

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  • linux
  • lspci
  • hardware

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