Dave reminded me that I needed to post up about the GP2X, he writes – “Here’s a website for a do-it-yourself opensource linux handheld game/media console. It is based on a dual core 240 MHz ARM CPU, 64 Megabytes RAM, SD card support up to 4 Gigabytes, and has a bright 3.5″ TFT display. It […]
Wow! Here’s voice recognition and speech synthesis for playing Infocom games (like Zork) over the phone, this might be the coolest VoIP project ever – [via] – Link.
Inventgeek has the start of a DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) dance pad – can be used with the free/open source Stepmania we’ve posted about before – Link. Related: StepMania: A DIY Dance Dance Revolution – Link. $10 Kraft dance pad hacking – Link. Disassembly / modification of Kraft GamePad – Link. Use your feet to […]
MAKE friend Sammy Joe from fredflare gave us the scoop that all the 36 winners have been announced for their 2nd annual “Next Big Thing” contest. Tons of cool stuff are on display made by crafters we adore such as The Small Object, Sublime Stitching, and One Good Bumblebee. Even comedienne Amy Sedaris is in […]
Scissorman writes – “Bored at work? Build your own 3″ trebuchet out of paperclips and throw balls of blu-tac up to an amazing 4 feet. WOW!!” – Link.
MAKE reader Ronal has some pages describing using an old laptop LCD screen as DIY LCD monitor, I’m not exactly sure where/what converter and inverter is being used (and how much it was) but – this is one of the most asked “DIY” mods folks want to do, so – perhaps we can figure out […]
Rachel sent in the simplest way to cut down the glare when you need to use your laptop outside – “How to make your own really cheap (or free) laptop sun shade. This is a tutorial (pretty self-explanatory though) that I made for solving the age-old problem (for me at least) of trying to be […]
