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Tutorials

Printed Circuit Board Photo Collage Screensaver for OS X

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OS X Flickr PCB Pool Screensaver
PCB Photo Pool Screensaver

One of my favorite ways to keep tabs on the Printed Circuit Boards Group on Flickr is with OS X’s built-in ability to turn an RSS feed into a screen saver, as shown above.

To create this cool and constantly changing screen saver, open the “Desktop & Screen Saver” pane of the OS X System Preferences, as shown below.

Desktop & Screen Saver Preferences

Click the + button and select “Add RSS Feed…”  OS X will prompt you for an RSS feed URL to use for the screen saver.  Enter

http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/groups_pool.gne?id=812901@N20&lang=en-us

and click OK.

Make sure that the Display Style is set to “Collage” mode (the center option) as shown above.  Click Test and you should see photos from the pool appear on your screen.  Now the next time your screen saver activates, you should see a collage of cool photos from the PCB photo pool.

That’s it!

PS. If anyone knows of an equivalent screen saver for Windows or Linux, please let me know in the comments.  I don’t want OS X users to have all the fun!

Projects

Building a Wifi Radio? Leave a comment here!

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Did my Wifi Radio project inspire you to buy a wireless router and start hacking?  If so, I’d like to hear from you!

Leave a comment below and let me know how your project is coming along.  Even if you’re not building a Wifi Radio but used my firmware or tutorials as a starting point (a great example is the Tweet-a-Watt), I’d love to hear from you.

If you have photos of your project, you can share them with the world by adding them to the Asus Wireless Router Hacks photo pool on flickr.

Electronics

Flickr Printed Circuit Boards Photo Pool Hits 100 Members!

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100 wonderful, amazing people have joined the Flickr Printed Circuit Boards Group since I launched it in July of last year!

The pool features over 400 pictures of printed circuit boards, many of them CC licensed.  There’s a little bit of everything, from homebrew board fab to PCB jewelry and even miniatature cityscapes.

If you have some cool PCB images of your own, add them to the pool!

One of my favorites: Car Park or Printed Circuit Board?

Flickr PCB Photo Pool

Electronics

New Flickr group for photos of printed circuits

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Printed circuit boards can be interesting and beautiful, with their delicate traces and colorful components in all shapes and sizes.  I just created a new Flickr group for photos of printed circuits like the one shown above.  More details about the group can be found on Flickr:

Photos exploring the beauty of printed circuit boards and components, including both surface mount and through-hole PCB construction.

http://flickr.com/groups/pcb/