Make:

• Levelhead code released under GPL
• Warcraft 'bot'
• Animal superpowers
• Stringwalker makes VR worlds even more realistic
• Your own personal moon
• Multi-touch virtual pizza cutting knife

Where the heck was that when I was going nuts making this is what I want to know. Anybody opened one up yet? I would really like to know what's inside.

Does it come with a creepy Christopher Walken?

That site you reference lifts feeds from folks. You might consider pointing to the source at SwissMiss' blog (which is awesome all on its own).

Here is the link

I was getting ready to make one when these hit the market. We bought one of these for my son -the real moon is like a security blanket / talisman for him, but we don't always have clear skies. He even has this cute little ritual to stop crying where he 'puts all his crying into the moon'. Anyway, it has 5 white LED's inside and curved blinders so that the first time you click the remote, one small sliver of the moon is illuminated, then with the next click a second one lights up, too. It goes to full then wanes until only the far left sliver is lit up (the first one, on the far right, goes dark after the full moon, etc). The remote is IR and has an 'on-off', a 'next phase' and an 'auto' button that cycles the phases every few seconds. The moon itself also has a photosensor so that it only works when the room is dark enough. The IR receiver is not visible from the outside; they've done a nice job on the whole thing. Two "AA" cells last for, I dunno four months or so with intermittent use. Haven't had to replace the two "AAA" cells in the tx.

Ah. I suspected that's what it was. A mechanical solution is surprisingly complicated, as I found out.

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