The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Neil writes – “Here is an inexpensive way to create a three dimensional pointing device. Take a working mechanical wheel mouse (the type with a scrolling wheel). Remove the ball. Drill some holes in the sides and run a string into the mouse, around the horizontal roller, and out the other side. Reroute the sensors […]
This is pretty neat – control WoW with an Xbox 360 controller, it use a “router” that turns the Xbox 360 controller into mouse and keyboard inputs, I haven’t tried this yet, but it might work with other games/apps too – [via] – Link.
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 […]
Wow, I’m on a Flash developer list and one of the members sent out this amazing “game” that uses your web camera (iSight or whatever) to play basketball – the motion is used to smack the ball around, like the PS2 Eyetoy, it’s a lot of fun! Great use of Director! – Link.
Calhoun writes – “After a run of mini-upright cabinets, I decided to once again try out a cocktail (or sit-down) style cabinet. Based on the flat-panel iMac, this machine too is LCD-based. For space concerns, that is fortunate. I think, like Apple, I’m done with large, heavy CRT’s. “ [via] – Link.
Linux cluster, made from 65 PlayStation 2s! – “The NCSA has constructed a PlayStation 2 Linux cluster as a test bench for scientific computation on “toy” hardware. The cluster consists of 65 compute nodes, 4 user login and development nodes, and 1 prototype node for software installation tests. All the nodes run the Sony Linux […]
The gang at Xbox-scene have some shots and info of a handy adaptor that will connect your Xbox360 HD to your PC without cracking open the case – 360Sata Adapter & Link.
