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Bill writes “Here’s a build log of our Inflatable Moai project. We converted two Halloween lawn decorations into 9′ Moai for the Tiki Invasion show this past weekend @ the Mission Tiki Drive-in in Montclair, CA.” – Link. Wikipedia – Moai are statues carved from compressed volcanic ash on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The statues […]
If you’re in San Jose today – check this out “DIY Urban Challenge is a workshop in which participants “hack” the streets of San Jose, creating objects which interject themselves into the urban fabric, to stimulate new experiences of the city. During a two day workshop participants will traverse San Jose detailing points of intersection […]
Ok Makers, we feature a lot of Altoids tin projects here on MAKE – and now you have a chance to win an unreleased new product from Altoids, if you happen to win, we’d like to do a project with the tin after the mints are consumed, heck we’ll auction the project off and give […]
Here’s a tongue controlled Gameboy advance using a Charmed Labs XPort 2.0 cartridge with a custom game program – “Simmunity has created the world’s first tongue-controlled Nintendo Game Boy AdvanceSP console and Game Cube controller for quadriplegic youth and adults…” [via] – Link.
What a great way to display a console, Cole @ Deviantart writes – “This is a little piece I did last semester for a Woodworking elective. The assignment was to build a table or reliquary, and I had had the idea of doing something to hold a Gamecube for a while. The concept is sort […]
This card looks like a good addition to a Maker made retro MAME cabinet, it runs classic games in their native 15Khz – “Connect your 15Khz arcade cabinet monitor to your PC with NO special configuration or special driver software in either DOS or Windows. Now you can also connect an ordinary PC monitor and […]
We Make Money Not Art has a quick recap of some of the tech from SIGGRAPH, Thermoesthesia looks really cool – “An interesting display technology was the Thermoesthesia that their makers also call a “Thermal sense display”. Beneath the projection surface there is a matrix of 24 heat pumps. When you touch the surface, you […]
