By way of the Steampunk Workshop comes this awesome classic horror-themed MAME cabinet by Doug Haffner. Doug is a fan of steampunk, Harper Goff (designer of Disney’s Nautilus for 20,000 Leagues) and Kenneth Strickfaden (set designer and prop builder for Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein). He decided to combine his love for all three in a MAME […]
Over at 0-60mag.com they have a 60+ paged PDF tutorial that shows you how to build an official Need For Speed SHIFT racing cockpit.
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Deep Green, the pool-playing robot from the Robotics & Computer Vision lab at Queen’s University has been making the rounds on other websites recently. Its robot arm uses a huge gantry to move anywhere over the table, and then a special cue stick tool to hit the ball. It’s hugely impressive, but the size and […]
Craving some frantic air hockey fun, oldschoolstructure built an eight-foot air bearing table using chipboard, a leaf blower and plenty of elbow grease. Check the step-by-step in the project’s instructable More: HOW TO – Make a table hockey table… with real ice!
The best TI-83 RPGs ever… Carolyn writes – For some, nothing was more exhilarating in high school than playing a cool calculator game right in front of the teacher’s face while she thinks you’re graphing some crazy parabolic curve. Every kid who’s privy to the beat on the street knows that the first thing to […]
What happens when automatic level generating software meets skilled Mario-bot software? – the above effortless automation apparently. Hmm, not so quite as exciting to watch without the possibility of tripping up. Though, there was a classic wall-jump save near the midpoint. Update: In the comments, Ian points out this higher qual youtube version and clarifies […]
