Benjamin Productions

 

 

People are constantly getting viruses and have no idea how or why they got them. Well certain website will trick you into downloading things… download things automatically for you… or even grab your information from your internet browser. There’s a simple way to prevent this that I just recently came up with the idea to look for. I figured why not run a virtual machine like the FBI does. Basically a virtual machine is a computer inside your computer that can’t make any changes to your original computer unless you specifically tell it to. Using a virtual machine you don’t even need virus protection. After a little bit of searching I found sandboxie

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So Today I finally finished my long awaited Coffee Cup Project. I wanted to do something more creative that would beat out the competition by using technology, well its safe to say that I think I have a good chance with my new invention the iSnare. Its capable of producing a real-like snare drum sound and also playing music. I’ve always wanted to make one ever since the first year I was in high school. Well I’ve finally made one.

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This weekend my ex’s gf’s birthday was coming up and I wanted to personally make her a present. The first thing I did was go to the craft store and got a wooden box, after that I gut the top apart and got the dimensions of the hole I made. Next I went to home depot and got a sheet of plexiglass to match it’s dimensions. After all the hardware was finished next was my favorite part, the programming. I wired up 6 jumbo red LEDs to the arduino and put a fade program on the arduino.

      So this morning I woke up and the first thing I realized was I had forgotten to charge my phone and I also have class today. So I grabbed some wire, a battery, a 7805 regulator, and a USB hub from an old computer with a fried motherboard. In the remaining 10 minutes I wired everything together to make a makeshift mintyboost for my iPhone. Here is the result, also for housing I used a cardboard box from sparkfun.
      After finishing that I wanted to get rid of the wire mod so I put it all on a board and housed it correctly in the box.

This week I will be taking an old emachines m5309 laptop, which has a bad hard drive, and fix it up and find another use for it. I’m going to start by ordering a new 2.5 ide hard drive off eBay and also a touch screen digitizer. I’m going to take it apart by removing the flip screen from the base, and then by removing the keyboard from the base, after that I’m going to take the lid and place it on the base with the screen facing you and rewire it back to the base, I’ll have to somehow mount it there with either screws or a custom case mod or use an acrylic case if I want to get fancy, so many options. What I do want to use the tablet for is mainly kitchen recipes and kitchen uses. Lastly, the os it will run on will be… *drumroll*…. ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix!