MAKE pal Mark shows how to turn an Amiga 500 into a lamp, it’s gorgeous! – Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 31st, 2006 11:58 PM
Categories: Art, DIY Projects, Electronics, Retro | 5 Comments
Technicolorcavalry’s pal Dave modded an iPod shuffle to be controlled via (and inside) a NES controller, great mod! – [via] – Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 31st, 2006 11:57 PM
Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments
The photos and videos are spectacular – “A selection of imagery from a recent prototype of a combination LED/3D camera interactive installation. The user’s gestures and motion through the space affect both the visuals and the audio.” [via] – Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 31st, 2006 11:33 PM
Categories: Art | No Comments
Modern Mechanix writes – “Not too shabby for $62K in 1952, this thing operates at .12Mhz has roughly 2K of memory and each tape holds around 360K.
Plus for all you case modders, it already comes with 200 glowing tubes. Try to beat that with your little LEDs.” – Link.
More Yesterday’s tomorrow, today – at Modern Mechanix!
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 31st, 2006 10:24 PM
Categories: Modern Mechanix, Retro | 1 Comment
Dan writes – “This is a pointer to a web site which shows a number of different design ideas. Use these as a starting place and come up with your own creative design. What you build will depend on what materials you have available to you.” [via] – Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 31st, 2006 10:08 PM
Categories: DIY Projects, Instructables, Transportation | 8 Comments
Udijw writes – “This reflector panel holder made of 3/4″ PVC pipe is handy if you have a spare tripod to use. The tripod provides a stable base that can be adjust for height and tilt angle. Reflector is the collapseable type used for an auto windshield (31 x 38″). It may also be possible to build a stand from PVC.” – Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 31st, 2006 9:12 PM
Categories: DIY Projects, Imaging | No Comments
Robotwisdom points to a super deal on the Matel Juicebox, $10 shipped! – Link.
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Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 31st, 2006 8:10 PM
Categories: DIY Projects, Electronics, Gadgets | 6 Comments
Wan & Carolyn write – “Here is a look inside Cube World…These are cool little cubes that are fun by themselves, but will interact when connected together! It would be great if we could figure out how to program our own graphics so we could introduce new “interactions”!!!!
“ – Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 31st, 2006 8:08 PM
Categories: Electronics, Gadgets | 3 Comments
Warcraft virtual-worlders, this is for you…Fruminator writes – “As of OGLE 0.3b, it is possible to capture texture coordinates (UV) for vertices that have them. This is enabled by the CaptureTextureCoords flag. Coupled with the fact that GLIntercept writes out to disk images for all the texture maps, this allows you to re-texture your capture in Maya with a little menial labor…” – Link.
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Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 31st, 2006 7:20 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Gaming, Online, Virtual Worlds | No Comments
Gail writes – “I love Hayao Miyazaki. I also love papercrafts. Only Epson in Japan is offering a free download of Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle the papercraft model. The pattern is quite large as is the final model.” – Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 31st, 2006 7:04 PM
Categories: DIY Projects, Paper Crafts | 4 Comments
Exclusively in the Maker Shed, this updated Redpark Breakout Pack for Arduino and iOS makes interfacing your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with the real world easy! This bundle includes the new RedPark TTL Cable for iOS so a TTL adapter (and soldering) is no longer required.
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