Great weekend project I found on the instructables website. Take an old HDD, a USB hub, and a few thumb drives. Remove the HDD guts and replace with the critical parts of the USB hub. I used a dremel tool to chop the strain relief from the hub housing and hot melt glued it in place.
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Clap-ton-dectomy
Almost kept it for myself
A friend who plays a Les Paul wanted some info on a strat. I reccomended a MIM standard. They run around $300 on craigslist. I found this 2007 with a hardshell case for $300, still has buffing compound under the frets and plastic on the pickguard. I owned it for a day!

Mullard Caps
Detect flash in HTML
site here Flash developer kit – flash player detection The code below should be placed in index and will route to the appropriate page, replace urls as appropriate.
New Grill
QR code generator

I’m seeing QR technology catch on a bit in tech geek literature. I might design a business card around the idea.
Monitor Repair
My 22″ Acer monitor died about a month ago. I did a little googling and found that this model has an output transformer prone to failure. It was a $20 gamble that paid off (new transformer from lcdparts sitting on the bubble wrap in the photo below ). About 45 minutes round trip, the majority of the time was spent figuring out disassembly. Photos were an important trail of digital breadcrumbs that I used to get the monitor back together.
Awesome video on the basic function of an LCD monitor here.





