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If you’re not reading Lifehacker, you should be; it’s full of tips, tricks, and suggestions that make you want to drop everything and start your own DIY project. One LH reader went ahead with it, and tweaked an old laptop to be an under-the-counter PC for occasional Web video watching in the kitchen and recipe lookups, not to mention music and other goodies:

Brian uses his saucy setup to pipe music to his kitchen via Pandora, view his Google Calendar, and get a look at the news. He needed a lightweight operating system that would support Flash, and ultimately settled on the much-beloved Puppy Linux. A little tinkering, two coat-hangers (which he used for mounting the laptop), and some elbow grease later, Brian’s put together a very cool kitchen computer.

Very cool – and goodness knows I have a ton of old useless laptops. Maybe I should give this a try!

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