DIY: Camera Flash Softbox
Diffusing light is the key to warm, soft shots. If you do a lot of portrait photography then you know how valuable a softbox can be, but the cost can sometimes be prohibitive. You can add a white card to your flash to diffuse light, buy a diffusing cap for your flash or you can [...]
Mamebook – Macbook Arcade Cabinet
Got an old Macbook laying around? Why not make your very own cocktail arcade cabinet with it. Crafty hacker Frederic Sebton decided to do something with the broken Macbook he had laying around. He crammed the internals into an Ikea Ramvik sideboard and with a little finessing and hacking he came up with this great [...]
Four Way Pong On Your Coffee Table
Sure, you could head on off to Ikea and pick up that $49 coffee table to fill that void in your apartment. Or, if you truly are the hardcore geek we all know you are (why else would you be reading this blog?), you could go out and pick up SparkFun’s LED coffee table and [...]
Ikea LCD Monitor Setup
I love IKEA. When I was single I don’t think there was a single piece of furniture in my apartment that wasn’t purchased at IKEA, hell we built most of the set we use on Digital Underground.tv from stuff at IKEA. That’s why I love to see a good hack now and then with IKEA [...]
Clean up cable clutter
How many of us have a cables cluttering up desks, tabletops and nightstands. Below is a video showing a simple and easy way to clean up the cable clutter. I would warn you that almost every powerbrick produces heat so make sure you don’t end up with a neat box that catches fire and burns [...]
