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David writes – “Radio Shack sells a $19 TV game called “Hummer offroad Racing” which has a full Commodore 64 inside that can be turned into a full computer.” – Link. Related: Hacking the C64 DTV. Retro-gaming joystick easily converts into full Commodore computer emulator. MAKE 02 – Page 149.
Tonight there is a total solar eclipse 2am PST 03/29/05 in Turkey – here are the ways to watch it — Exploratorium – watch live streaming video – “A total solar eclipse will occur when the new moon moves directly between the sun and the earth. The moon’s shadow will fall on the eastern tip […]
Simon writes – “Well, we’ve pulled it off and a Second Life sim now exists in real space. We have a blog where we’ve begun to detail the technical process that got us her. We’ll be updating it extensively over the next week with more photos and info as the show progresses.” – Link. Ok, […]
Aaron writes – “idBoy is a piece of software for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. With idBoy and a simple homebrew interface, the Game Boy Advance makes a dandy bunny. It has great battery life, has square-wave synthesis audio channels (among others) perfect for producing CW (morse code) tones, and has a link port perfect […]
Xexter in the Maxconsole forums figured out how to run a NES emulator on an Xbox 360 using a Media Center, no sound – but the games run at full speed, nice! – “Found a way to add a menu for the roms list so you will have to edit the nes.htm and change to […]
Calazon Enterprises made a fun stop motion LEGO movie, with an unhappy ending for a frog. When will the frog abuse craze end? – [via] – Link. Related: More LEGO stop motion videos – Link. Stop Motion Animation, the Easy Way. With iStopMotion, making Gumby is less pokey. MAKE 02 – Page 129.
What you’re looking at isn’t an arena filled with thousands of people, it’s an insanely detailed arena, made out of LEGO – Link.
