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Projects from the fifth chapter of The Best of Instructables Volume 1.
The secret behind the computer's success is its generality. With the right suite of sensors, software, and actuators, a computer can do virtually anything! The computer projects on Instructables are a prime example. Here is a smorgasbord of the practical, the playful, the creative, and the just plain weird. The best lesson I've learned is that, despite the power of computers, computer skills alone will not make a project fly, crawl, dazzle, or impress. You must combine these skills with solid electrical and mechanical engineering and couple that with your own creativity. Don't stop at hacking just the ones and zeros, keep going until you're hacking the physical world itself!
- argon
Click here to order a copy of The Best of Instructables Volume 1 from the MakerShed!
The secret behind the computer's success is its generality. With the right suite of sensors, software, and actuators, a computer can do virtually anything! The computer projects on Instructables are a prime example. Here is a smorgasbord of the practical, the playful, the creative, and the just plain weird. The best lesson I've learned is that, despite the power of computers, computer skills alone will not make a project fly, crawl, dazzle, or impress. You must combine these skills with solid electrical and mechanical engineering and couple that with your own creativity. Don't stop at hacking just the ones and zeros, keep going until you're hacking the physical world itself!
- argon
Click here to order a copy of The Best of Instructables Volume 1 from the MakerShed!
1. Standing on the carpet
2. Wearing wool
3. Being ungrounded
4. etc.
Basically if everything is wired the same as it was before you opened the case, and now it doesn't work, it's because you discharged static electricity into your computer. Since it won't boot at all then you, in all likelihood, staticed the motherboard and it will have to be replaced. If it is a branded computer (e.g. Dell, HP) then the cost to replace the proprietary motherboards is going to be rather large, since opening those cases voids the manufacturer warranty.
Aren't hardware issues fun?!?!?
Best of luck,
Primeval
of course, since I'm poor, the only parts I get are salvage, so I don't really have much selection. I find hard drives least common, since people keep them in upgrades to new pcs and give me fully functional old ones with no hd.
It's great fun to do and you can do it to your own spec, just ensure everything is compatible, though ATX case for ATX motherboard, a good enough power supply 400W plus, you can add what YOU want, too, any specialist items like sound systems for recording or creating your own studio, multimedia pc or whatever you need.......IT'S GREAT FUN!!!!!
MMX II-300 score: 2
Alienware M15x score: We are sorry to inform you, but no number exists to describe how well it did.
I Loled at bowmasters comment.
This will never run windows ever again. I saw how bad 98 was running on it and just said No. Can XP Really run on 64MB of ram?