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    By Posted on 10.30.2008 Comments

    11.30.2008 at 09:13pm - Comment by kstebleton

    Borosilicate is a type of glass, more commonly known as Pyrex. This will have everything to do with stability, and nothing to do with reflectivity. Kevin

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    Build a Wireless Audio Streamer

    By Posted on 7.14.2008 15 Comments

    Here’s the scenario: You have a thousand MP3 music files sitting on your home computer—which is great when you’re actually sitting at your computer but a lot less useful when you’re in the kitchen or living room. What you need is a dedicated device in another room that can pull songs wirelessly from your PC’s music library and play them through its own speakers. Several off-the-shelf products can handle this task, such as Logitech’s Squeezebox; unfortunately, they start at around $300.

    7.23.2008 at 09:45pm - Comment by kstebleton

    I was very curious and excited to hunt down Popsci's additional information on the web for this project. It looked like, with some instructions, this could be figured out and built. Popsci - you earn an absolute ZERO for providing extra information, and you offer only a very brief description of the way the finished project can be used. You mention NOTHING of software to drive the display, which operating system was chosen, how it all fit onto a usb jump drive, how the display gets information from the mobo, the list goes on and on. The published article led me to belive that I could get more information on the web. I was looking forward to pulling an old P3 apart and making this happen. I'm disappointed. I'll grab a squeezebox or some sort of working box to play my music. And I'll be very wary - because I know that there's nothing extra to be found on the web for the How2 projects. A subscriber since 1969



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