The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Dan Glickman CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America has a opinion column on CNET about how the Broadcast Flag needs to go forward. This is what we’re up against. If you like MythTV, developing software projects and using your TV the way you want to- a lot could change if the FCC can mandate how anyone builds or writes software that goes near HDTV. Link. Also: listen to our interview with Cory Doctorow for more about the Broadcast Flag.
Making your own homebrew PSP docking station “When my PSP arrived, it was always in my hands, but a couple of days later, the problem of having a place to put the console became stronger and stronger (especially when you have nothing but your standard pack)… I began to feel anxious… What if it falls down the table? And what if, while is on the bed, I sit on it? And so on…” Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member abstrakone is restoring an arcade machine using a PC as the brains and adding new hardware to make it work like a regular arcade machine. Follow the photos and how he did it here. For more details and resources on making your own arcade controls, here’s a good resource that MAKE reader Jake sent in. Link.
I think we’ll see something like this for all music players soon- This Widget for Mac OS X grabs the currently playing iTunes song and gives you the lyrics for it. It checks Lyrictracker.com first and if they don’t have the lyrics, iTunesLyrics checks another lyric database. Link.
Here’s a great Phidgets project. We chose to build a ubiquitous version of the 80’s arcade classic “Whack the Mole” since we thought it would be a fun, addictive way of integrating the computer with a really physical game. To make the game a little more sophisticated than the original we made a multiplayer game where one person using a virtual version of our game can connect to the physical game board. Link.
Handy for homebrew GB games- GBAccelerator is our latest and most innovative modification for the Game Boy Advance & GBA SP. GBAccelerator allows you to change the speed of the GBA to one of four speeds including: normal, fast, ultra and slow-motion by simply simultaneously pressing three GBA buttons. GBAccelerator is useful for a number of games and applications. Link.
Good resource- To transfer audio from aging cassette tapes or records, you’ll need some basic audio hardware and recording software. Cassette Deck or Turntable The first thing you’ll need is a cassette deck that can play back your tapes or a turntable for your records. Any tape deck with audio-out jacks should work...Link.
