This is some crazy chicken wing flappin’ action folks, and it looks like a lot of fun too! The system is powered by an Arduino and uses a hidden camera to analyze the players movement. There is a great flickr photo set of the build too! Existing consumer toy chickens were hacked, removing all circuits […]
Retro Tennis for Two on display at the Brookhaven Lab in celebration of its 50th anniversary @ The NY Times… “I BRAG to people that I was probably the first kid to play a video game,†said Robert Dvorak Jr. That happened half a century ago here at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where Mr. Dvorak’s father […]
Bunnie (Chumby engineer and all around hardware hacker) got a Nintendo DSi… and took it apart… I couldn’t help myself from buying one of these…and taking it apart. The DSi is pretty cool: it has not one, but two, cameras embedded in it. One faces forward so you can see yourself, and the other can […]
Unique Game for Party Amusement Modern Mechanix, 1933 – surely to be a Wii game soon…. “SPIKE the Potato†is a highly entertaining game for any party. All that is needed is a single large potato, a number of paper cones and some needles. The paper cones are about 7 in. long and 1-1/2″ in […]
This simple mod shows how to add RCA audio and video outputs to an older Famicom (HVC-001) model in order to improve the video quality and to ensure that the channels that the system outputs on will match those of your TV. Famicom AV Mod
Sebastian of Little-scale keeps churning out the excellent MIDI projects – I love the sounds of the Atari 2600. I made a MIDI interface that gives you full control over the sound output of an Atari 2600. You can watch a quick demo here. No project rundown as of yet but I’m guessing it won’t […]
The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden… I don’t play many video games but this one looks amazing.
