Month: October 2006

Cheap BOE-BOTs

Tonyvr writes in with this deal on BOE-BOTs – “Cheap BOE-BOTS are back at MicroCenter again, but at $70 instead of the previous $50. This is still a terrific deal, as list price is $149. I bought 20 kits at $50, and although the boxes were battered, and had “Radio Shack” price stickers on them, […]

Basement arcade

Basement arcade

Before After Jeff Kinder turned his basement in to a retro gaming heaven, including pumping in ambient arcade sounds, he writes “For the final phase of my project I installed 4 speakers up in-between the joists which play all 80’s music and the “Arcade Ambience” sound effect files that I downloaded from Andy Hofle’s website. […]

Shocking alarm clock

Shocking alarm clock

Clinton made a shocking alarm clock, literally, he writes – “The idea for this project came to me about a year ago, it was right around the time I made the homebrew handheld shocker. I wanted to make something that I could shock my unsuspecting friends with and yet have it still be very annoying, […]