How To: The Ultimate Gaming PC
Needing a new computer? Here’s how you can build your own!
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DIY Game Boy Pocket Using the Raspberry Pi
Travis Brown designs a Game Boy Pocket clone using a Raspberry Pi running Retro Pi emulation software.
All of the electronics were gutted from the case, which was then modified to fit the RPi and other electronics.
The Game Boy Pocket hit the market back in 1996 and is still popular with fans of the handheld gaming system that they can still be bought today. Yeah, there’s nothing like gaming on a black and white screen, which was better than the pea-green screen of the original Game Boy. Those who are fans of the Pocket but would like to have a color screen and be able to play games from other systems should take a look at Travis Brown’s Pocket Pi.
Flora-Powered TARDIS Dog Costume
How To: Doctor Who TARDIS costume for dogs complete with TARDIS sounds and lights
A Microsoft Paint Figure Drawing Class
Artist, prankster, and F.A.T. Lab member Aram Bartholl will hold a very unique figure drawing class using only a classic version on Microsoft Paint and a mouse to draw a live model!
Tinkernut’s Lamp Comes To Life Using Ultrasonic Waves
The Motion Controlled Ultrasonic Lamp is great for beginners starting out with the Arduino Uno.
It may or may not detect ninjas but will illuminate and follow most everyone else.
Finding Starter Projects: Project Sets
Teachers are looking for projects to get their kids into the Maker movement! Today, we share project sets carefully selected by a few of the many groups who care deeply about making. Together, each of these sets take a stab at something of a “curriculum” — or, if that word makes you bristle, then maybe you could […]
Hack It Together Goes Beyond the Basic Blink
This post is sponsored by Freescale. Among the rows of makers under the trees at World Maker Faire New York, a friendly man with a bowtie played the guitar, showing off the advanced signal processing ability of the Freescale microcontroller that he’s working with in a project dubbed MonkeyJam. It’s made by Eli Hughes (who […]