Life-sized TIE Interceptor at Star Wars Celebration V
Life-sized TIE Interceptor at Star Wars Celebration V. Photos and more at the Denver Post…
Month: August 2010
Ice Cream Cone Balloons
These ice cream cone balloons from the Crafts Dept. are brilliant in their simplicity. A little craft paper and some helium-filled balloons and you’ve got an instant centerpiece for a party.
Launchpad programming with Linux
Mike wrote a guide for programming MSP430 microcontrollers using the TI Launchpad under Linux. It makes use of the open source compiler MSPGCC rather than using a code-limited proprietary IDE. He writes – When TI released their Launchpad development board at the end of June it generated a lot of Buzz. Here’s a package that […]
Zork Stained Glass Window
Zork Stained Glass Window, Jason writes – By Brian Gaines. “I loved Zork so much that a high school buddy and I made ourselves stained glass windows of the logo in 1983. To the best of my knowledge, they are the only such windows in existence (but I could certainly be wrong)” No, I think […]
Single-handed game controller mod
Playing a game on the Wii with one hand is a major selling point of the system. However, what if you don’t have a Wii or would like to play some of your older games? Dutch hardware hacker Hasse’s brother can only use one hand, so Hasse decided to remedy the situation by successfully modding a standard two-fisted controller with an accelerometer.
Giant voxel soccer ball sculpture
Check out this time-lapse installation video of a gigantic sculpture of a soccer player by Ratfliffe Fowler Design for Nike. Each voxel in this hanging sculpture is a soccer ball.
Your Comments
And we’re back with our eleventh installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Prompted by the Make & Mend ideas from @make_tips DanYHKim had an interesting tip for re-using coffee grounds: I was patching my roof with a tar-like material, and got […]
