HowTo: Blinking LEDs

Listening to music on my pc (proudly using WINAMP), I was wondering how would be to have some leds blinking with the sound that came out from the P2 connector, so I decided to make a simple circuit to do that. It worked pretty fine, so I decided to write a HowTo telling step-by-step how to do it. Hope you enjoy it!

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HowTo: Simple Keyboard Painting

This is another stuff I’ve done longtime ago, but now I decided to release as HowTo. I had one old keyboard hanging around, I was thinking how would be to have one black keyboard (even that now its quite easy to just go and buy one.) I didn’t took pictures of all segments, but I’ll try explain them:
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HowTo: External Winamp Control

Nowadays, winamp have full support to keyboard shortcuts. But some time ago, when Winamp didn’t have this feature, I was thinking in a way I could change the music just by pressing one button, it would make things faster and easier to change songs, specially during games. So I decided to make a external control to it. I found one winamp plugin that shows how to configure a external control using the Serial Port, being able to make 4 or 15 buttons control. I decided to make this, step-by-step, how to do it, hope you enjoy.

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MouseMod Project

Surfing on http://metku.net I found one interesting tutorial how to mode one old mouse installing a LED on it. I had this old mouse haning around so I decided to try it myself.

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