Aha! Puzzle This
Win your roommate’s sock full of quarters, and other puzzles.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Maker — Sky Cutters
Pulling the strings at the Berkeley Kite Festival.
Color scanning LEGO music machine
David writes – “Here’s my first attempt at making something with the Lego Mindstorms package: a scanning machine that reads the colors of the bricks that are put into it and that translates those colors into sound.” – Link.
HOW TO – Make gameshow-style hand buzzers
Nick writes – “Here’s a a small tutorial for fabricating gameshow-style hand buzzers (in this case, used for the PC game “You Dont Know Jack”, played on an emulated arcade cabinet).” – Link.
HOW TO – Run homebrew on the Nintendo DS Lite
Leonard has a short overview on getting homebrew apps and more running on the Nintendo DS – “To be able to run homebrews, emulators, backups and the like, you’ll need two things. First you need a passkey to boot into DS mode. The latest and greatest is the Max Media Launcher, which replaces the older […]
3D Milling service for virtual worlds
And so it begins! Mark over on 3pointD has a bit about a new 3D printing service for virtual world avatars / objects, looks like it might be $50 a pop – “Second Life residents will soon be able to order up physical versions of their avatars, their builds or their favorite Second Life objects […]
nPod – Portable NES
Ben has a new console meets handheld creation – the nPod. The nPod is a NES with 3.5″ screen, runs on 4 AA’s and uses the original NES cartridges, here’s his “how it’s made” page – [via] – Link.
