EarlStirling in the MAKE forums writes – “A very cool website by a guy who has made a huge collection of robots, including lots of movie bots and associated props. He includes super detailed descriptions of his processes.” – [via] Link.
Griffon writes – “This is an entertaining article that extensively details putting a DVD player in a NES case and making it look as close to the original NES as possible. The article even has a video of it in action! He even got the reset button of the NES to eject the tray. Really […]
“A fake falcon and a radar-activated cannon work better at keeping birds away from oilsands waste than the current system, according to research from the University of Alberta.” [via] Link.
Kevin in Seattle had an old Superman pinball machine and decided to mod it to become a Futurame pinball game. It even plays episodes on a built in LCD screen – Thanks James! – [via] Link.
Regis and Brad sent in their open source Pinball emulation / control software – “PinMame-HW is a derivative work of PinMame, whereas “HW” stands for “HardWare.” PinMame emulates the hardware of many (if not most) pinball machines by using the original ROM code. PinMame can emulate as many as 484 pinball machines, such as Bally, […]
How to make pressure sensitive “CoasterGlows” – “…the basic idea behind this little invention is that the coaster will light up only when there is something sitting on top of it. You can use a regular on/off power switch if you just want to be able to turn the lights on when you are having […]
Here’s how to mod a pair of cheap wireless headphones to play music from a computer across the room – [via] Link.
