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Free Downloads. Diy News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Gizmodo. Top 10 Uses for Wi-Fi (That Aren't Just Connecting to the Internet) Create a Kickass, Seamless, Play-Everything Media Center: The Complete Guide. Pompeii Oven - a set on Flickr - Aurora. Transform Your Digs into a Home of the Future, DIY-Style - Aurora. LAN-Party Optimized House - Aurora.

I live in a LAN-party-optimized house. That is, my house is specifically designed to be ideal for PC gaming parties. It's also designed for living, of course, but all houses have that. Here, let me illustrate: The house has twelve of these fold-out computer stations, six in each of two rooms (ideal for team vs. team games). I also have two big TVs, one 59-inch and one 55-inch, each of which has a selection of game consoles attached. For the 0.001% of you who read my blog before this post: Sorry for the long lack of posts. Hardware The twelve game stations all contain identical hardware: CPU: Intel Core i5-2500 GPU: MSI N560GTX (nVidia GeForce 560) Motherboard: MSI P67A-C43 (Intel P67 chipset) RAM: 8GB (2x4GB DDR3-1333) Monitor: ASUS VE278Q (27" 1080p) At the time I bought the hardware (March 2011), I felt this selection provided the best trade-off between price and performance for gaming machines that need to last at least a few years.

Instead, the machines boot off the network. Security. Playground - ArduinoUsers. :: Exhibition :: The place to share and show off projects Until someone finds a way to categorize what is here, be sure to remember that your browser has a "find in this page" tool (ctrl-F in Firefox) which can help you find what you are looking for! Arduino user projects How Did I Improve My Central Heating Control with Arduino? - Before I started this project, my central heating was controlled with Danfoss TP7000 room thermostat only by switching heating pump ON-OFF. Then I heard about Arduino, get interested, and decided to make an advanced control system for central heating: weather compensated heating controller, room thermostat, web-based remote control for the whole system, and web logging.

Here's the result... Beer Recipes - Brewing Beer Recipes. How to Build Your Own Cheap, Simple Solar Oven. The "Minimum" Solar Box Cooker is a solar oven that you can built quickly from two cardboard boxes. The “Minimum” Solar Box Cooker is a simple box cooker that can be built in a few hours for very little money. When this cooker was designed, it was named it the “Minimum Solar Box Cooker” because, at the time, it represented the simplest design we could devise. What we didn’t communicate with that name was that this is a full-power cooker that works very well, and is in no way minimum as far as its cooking power goes. What You Will Need – Two cardboard boxes.

We would suggest that you use an inner box that is at least 15 inch x 15 inch (38 cm x 38 cm), but bigger is better. The outer box should be larger than the small box all around, but it doesn’t matter how much bigger, as long as there is a half inch (1.5cm) or more of an airspace between the two boxes. . – One sheet of cardboard to make the lid. . – One small roll of aluminum foil. – At least 8 ounces (250 g) of white glue or wheat paste. Do it yourself auto articles.