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Robot Magazine has some details about a pretty cool sounding combat robot event – “Battle Beach, LLC, in partnership with Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, is pleased to announce that their next robot combat event, Battle Beach 4, will be held in Summer 2006. This is the Robot Fighting League’s (RFL) Southeast Championships and an RFL […]
Gizmodo & i4U have posts about a $35k book scanner, it seems really neat and eventually they will come down in price – but I have an old collection of out of print books I want to scan in (now). I’m guessing I’m not alone, so we’ll likely see a few DIY versions sprouting up […]
Eliot on Engadget has a sub-ish $1,000 HTPC how-to, he writes “We’ve seen a lot of home theater PCs lately and being in need of a new workstation, we decide to build one of our own. We started planning by looking around to see what others had done. It would be fun to own a […]
Clever NES Alarm clock mod, the Maker, Aaron writes – “So I built a funky alarm clock out of an old Nintendo console. Why? Because I was at Value Village with my girlfriend and my sister, and while they were browsing through miles of clothing the only thing of interest I could find were two […]
I’ll post more when I land, getting on a plane now – the mixed reality party was great – special thanks to Electric Sheep, Rhythm & Blues & MTV2. Link.
Check out these great photos of a homemade tiki fireplace complete with glowing red eyes and a smoke machine for the smoking nostrils! I think someone could make these as kits to retrofit fireplaces, or just follow these photos and make your own. [via] Link.
Remember that free app “TouchAmp” that turned your old Palm into a touch-screen remote for Winamp? Now you get the source code – “TouchAmp’s GPL’d source code is available…I’d be delighted if some skilled developers contributed to this project. Some popular feature requests have been: USB/Bluetooth/Wifi connectivity for more recent Palm PDAs.” Link.
