This PC case mod in the style of “Doom 3” is more impressive than the game it is supposed to be honoring. The design combines steampunk with Lego Land aesthetics and an integrated 12 channel infrared relay board that controls a blast door on its front. Pretty cool, but might be a little distracting when […]
Here’s a nice way to relive the old school gaming relics. This watch by Nixon allows you to play Tetris and Pong side by on your wrist while simultaneously trying to figure out what the current time is. Is that the score? Is it the time? Who knows. Just be sure you aren’t trying to […]
Johnny Lee at Carnegie Mellon University figured out how to use the Wiimote’s infrared camera to track his fingers, Minority Report style. Link. (Thanks, Matt!)
Here’s how to host a snail race in your home, complete with printable racing tags to affix to the snails – Link. If that’s not your thing, you can also freeze a snail…Life and death at low temperatures, in MAKE 07 (Backyard Biology) we show how to freeze and revive a garden snail – here’s […]
A history of matching tile games by Jesper Juul – This article aims to write the history of a video game genre. The genre is that of matching tile games, video games where the object of the player is to manipulate tiles on a grid in order to create matches. For a few years, the […]
Eric Gradman, who brought us the awesome Trash 80 bluetooth “prank,” has posted a Flickr set for his cool MAME gaming system house inside of an IKEA dining table. IKEA MAME Dinner Table – [via] Link Related: Bluetoothing a Trash 80 – Link IKEA coffee table with recessed planter and LED light – Link
The “NORDLICHT BLITZ PLAY” (Blitz Play Hero III) is an urban game that reads its boundaries from embedded RF transmitters scattered around the city and receivers in mobile devices carried by players. When the devices receive data from the city nodes, they create sounds that are played back on modified Nintendo DS game systems while […]
