NES Zapper Mouse
Turn a NES gun into a mouse (good for Duck hunt MAME) – Link.
Technology
Build your own answering machine
I’m going to make this “answering machine” for my rotary cell phone – Popular Electronics 1958 Link.
Roomba pool! – Poomba?
First ever human vs autonomous / hacked pool playing Roomba at the Gawker/Lifehacker party at South by Southwest – the human controls the Roomba and tries to get the pool balls in before the programmed robot. Link.
HOW TO – Make a custom library part in Eagle’s CAD tool
Kd7vnn writes – “The eagle cad tool is a great thing. It does have something that I see as a draw back. That is that you need to pick a package for your part while you are still working on the schematic phase of a project. I assume Cadsoft, the makers of eagle, have their […]
PS2 NES mod…
Fantastic upright NES mod to make it look like a PS2 – [via] Link.
Homebrew CPU
Bill’s homebrew CPU – “Magic-1 is a homebuilt minicomputer. It doesn’t use an off-the-shelf microprocessor, but rather has a custom CPU made out of 74 Series TTL chips. Altogether there are more than 200 chips in Magic-1 connected together with thousands of individually wrapped wires. And, it works. Not only the hardware, but there’s also […]
Circuit Bending is Easy
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Coloradocrim writes – “Trying my hand at some circuit bending today. Here’s what I came up with. Check out the post [here] for some sounds. Not too exciting, but there’s not much of a circuit in this thing.” – Link. Related: Circuit Bending by Sabastian Boaz, Cristiana Yambo. Modify a […]
