Wow Olimar supersized the DS! – Here’s a little project I’ve been working on. It’s a Nintendo DS hooked up to 2 Tablet PC screens, using an FPGA in between to do some translation magic. Pen input from the Tablet PC screens is sent back to the DS. It can also dump screenshots to a […]
Here’s the latest winner from our MAKE Pocket Ref back to school give away! We asked “If you could “open source” any project, device, anything that’s not open source now what would it be (and why?).” Congrats Rybarnes! – I have always imagined an open source housing project. Plans for extremely affordable, fast and stable […]
I really like todbot’s projects, here’s one he’s working on now called WineM – WineM solves the problem of remembering all the information about the wines in a large wine rack, cellar or cabinet, or searching through that data. This smart wine rack makes that information always accessible and updatable. todbot blog » Blog Archive […]
Dim writes – This Timer was originally build for my PCB exposure box but it can be used for other purposes. You can set the time between 1 and 90 minutes by pressing the up or down switches. The countdown starts by pressing the on/off switch. By pressing this switch again you can interrupt the […]
Jason writes – With some conductive fabric and spirit gum, you can make a simple binary switch that attaches to your eyelids. Andrew Schneider used some of these to make a polaroid camera that takes a snapshot when you blink. When I first saw these, I was reminded of cyborgs in television and film and […]
REMINDER! MAKE is a sponsor of Austinist’s – Local Music is Sexy IV if you’re in Austin on 9/13 stop by! An annual tradition since its inception in 2005 (back when the ‘hawk was the Velvet Spade, and folks were still arguing over the smoking ban), Local Music is Sexy showcases a bunch of promising […]
The Wii Nunchuck communicates with the Wiimote over I2C, constantly sending little 6-byte packets that describe the anolog stick, accelerometer, and button values. You might remember that Brian posted about how you can hook the Nunchuck up to an Arduino board and read accelerometer data from it. Chad from Windmeadow Labs, who was responsible for […]
