If you’re an aspiring Alex Trebek with some Arduino skills, you should check out RoysterBot’s Instructable on how to make a Quiz-O-Tron 3000, an electronic quiz contestant lockout system, which allows contestants to “buzz in” during trivia games. He used it at a holiday party and therefore needed something sturdy enough to withstand the hand slams of inebriated party goers. Hacking up a few Staples “Easy Buttons” proved to be the perfect—and cheapest—solution.
[via Adafruit]
As part of the Open MAKE/Young Makers program at the Exploratorium today, there will be a live webcast starting at 1pm. From the “MAKE at the Exploratorium” page:
Open MAKE is a monthly program at the Exploratorium, in collaboration with MAKE magazine and Pixar Animation Studios, to highlight the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local makers. Makers from the Bay Area share their work with the public. Dale Dougherty, founder and editor of MAKE, will interview Featured Makers in the McBean theater. This month’s program will feature makers Lani Smoot, Shawn Lani, Virginia Fleck, and Shih Chieh Huang.
This Kindle hack relies on a few Python scripts to remove the DRM from books already purchase via the Kindle Store. The scripts, of course, require Python to be installed; the hack also uses the Kindle for PC application so you’ll need to run this on a Windows machine.
