The gaming minifig painting site Cool Mini or Not has created what looks like an awesome 400-page e-book guide to sculpting, painting, converting, basing, and photographing miniatures. There’s even a scenery section. I didn’t buy and download the actual book, but the free sample section and TOC are impressive. The PDF is $9.95. The Ultimate […]
Now, these might not be the best clickety-clack dampeners for the Rock Band drums, but they sure will keep the dust off of them! To me they have a sort of 8-bit aesthetic because of the resolution of the crocheted stitches. And for you non-crocheters out there, they’re for sale on Etsy. (Thanks, Matt!) Related: […]
Adam sent word of this interesting piece – A physical manifestation add-on for a first-person-shooter game, Riley C Harmon’s “What it is without the hand that wields it” – Custom electronics based on an Atmega8/168 micro-controller are connected to a PC running a dedicated Counter-strike Source server. Players across the internet can connect and play […]
Starting a band and writing an album’s worth of songs with your own MIDI control scheme is cool. Using video game controllers as your interface is very cool. Doing all that with a fresh style that people can actually get into – that’s pretty much unheard of! The San Francisco Guardian describes them – Like […]
Another nice NES hack that turns the old cartridges and controller into a portable MP3 player / boombox to take on the road. NES Controller MP3 Player Sports Functional Cartridge Speaker [via]
This is a pretty cool Arduino to WiiMote NunChuck hack from Jeremy Keith to control 3D visuals in Processing on an iMac. Simple but effective. Arduino WiiMote Hack
In the quest for ‘ultimate tone’ many designs have been attempted, but few know the musical potential held within an old game console such as the above NESpaul & Dream-tele-Cast-er. Seriously, these makers have gone to impressive lengths in order to convert classic plastic enclosures into instrument bodies (which could be a blasphemous process to […]
