• Vintage Circuit Boards Create Stunning Sculptures - Artist Theo Kamecke has taken vintage circuit boards and transformed them to adorn furniture and sculpture that can be used in homes and galleries.

  
  

  
  
• GardenBot Brings Geek Power to Green Thumbs - For less than $200, a graphic designer has created a garden automation system called GardenBot that uses open source hardware to monitor humidity, temperature and soil conditions. The data is then poured into charts so you can view the world as the plants see it.

  
  

  
  
• USB Dongle Claims to Deliver First Easy Hack for PS3 - If it works as advertised, a USB dongle could soon break the PlayStation 3's seemingly hackproof seal.

  
  

  
  
• Droid 2 Teardown Reveals Beefed-Up Processor - The Motorola Droid 2 looks a lot like the original Droid, and a teardown reveals that similarities go more than skin-deep. In fact, the internal layout and most of the Droid 2’s components are nearly identical to those of the original Droid, iFixit found.

  
  

  
  
• Everyone Should Do the Jelly Mouse-and-Keyboard Prank - Somewhere in Finland, Tom’s office colleagues decided to welcome him with the most delicious office prank this side of stuffing your monitor in a giant doughnut: A mouse and keyboard keys stuffed in jelly.

  
  

  
  
• Young Engineer Uses Webcam, Laser to Build Budget 3-D Scanner - Using little more than a webcam and a laser, a young engineer has built a cheap 3-D scanner that dovetails perfectly with the Makerbot and other desktop fabricators. It could be used as part of a copying system that would allow hobbyists to duplicate solid objects at home.

  
  

  
  
• DIY Graphing Calculator Is Built From Open Source Hardware - A home-brewed graphing calculator uses entirely open source hardware to create the ultimate status symbol for geeks and quant jocks.

  
  

  
  
• DIY Wearable Computer Turns You Into a Cyborg - A Swedish researcher and entrepreneur has taken the first step toward becoming a cyborg by creating a wearable computer that can be slung across the body.

  
  

  
  
• Oil Leak Could Transform Repairmen Into Superheroes - For the first time in our nation's history, our hopes and dreams and economic fate rest, not on a warrior or a politician or an astronaut, but on a team of repairmen. The effort to seal the ruptured oil well in the Gulf is the grandest and highest-profile repair job since the Apollo 13 duct-tape fix.

  
  

  
  
• Why Arduino Is a Hit With Hardware Hackers - Here are five reasons why the relatively underpowered 8-bit microcontroller Arduino is more popular than another powerful open source chipset, the BeagleBoard.

  
  

  
  

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