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MAKE @ 2006 National Design Triennial

MAKE @ 2006 National Design Triennial

A little MAKE news – MAKE was selected for inclusion in the 2006 National Design Triennial, congrats MAKE team! – “The “National Design Triennial” is an ongoing exhibition series at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Inaugurated in 2000, the “Triennial” seeks out and presents the most innovative American designs from the prior three years […]

Modified circuit bent NES

Modified circuit bent NES

Outstanding circuit bent NES, schematics, PCB layouts and how to make your own on the site. [via] – Link. Related: Circuit Bending – Modify a Casio keyboard (or other electronic audio stuff) and start playing some of the strangest sounds you’ve ever heard. MAKE 04 – Page 88 (subscribers log in). Circuit bend articles and […]

Fix an Xbox… with a mint tin

Fix an Xbox… with a mint tin

Dirkus writes – “This altoids tin can help you replace an Xbox’s hard drive without any pesky modifications to the Xbox. It reads the EEPROM off in a fraction of a second, so you can feed it to whatever Xbox drive restoring/locking program you’re using and drop a new drive in the console and get […]