Graffiti Research Lab workshops at Maker Faire – “Come to the Graffiti Research Lab workshops at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. We will be working with visitors on the creation of a giant bus mural while running workshops on making LED Throwies and Electro-Graphs.” – Link. Maker Faire! – Link.
Raphael writes – “I thought it was sad not to use my SNES mouse anymore so I built an adapter to use it with with a Linux PC. The adapter is identical to the one used to connect snes gamepads to a PC. It’s now possible to play the Swat-the-Bug game from Mario-Paint using the […]
Robotdreams writes – “Matt Bauer took a standard Robonova-1 biped robot, taught it some neat karate and kung-fu moves, then hacked it to add grippers that could actually pickup objects like pencils from the floor. A few days later, and he has the robot literally climbing ropes, swinging from the trees, and rappelling down cliffs.” […]
Christopher writes – “Handcrank rechargable flashlights are a great idea (not my idea – just a great idea). LED’s comsume very little power compared to traditional blubs and last a lot longer. Throw in the need to never change the batteries and it makes a simple yet elegant solution to the age old problem of […]
Jordan writes – “Part I of How To: NES Controller to Xbox Mod will show you how to prepare the NES Controller for use on the Xbox. This article includes complete descriptions, an easy to follow wiring diagram, and a break down of all the tools you will need (for the entire mod).” – Link. […]
Chris writes – “P.O. sent us this how-to on building a very handy flashlight out of a old TicTac mint box. It consists of a empty TicTac box (duh!), three batteries (that fits perfect), a small switch, a resistor and a bright LED. It might not take a rocket scientist to figure out how to […]
Timatron has a pretty nice LCD photo frame project made from an old Powerbook, he writes – “Take your old laptop, matte it, frame it, and convert it into a hanging framed digital lcd screen to do with as you like.” – Link.
