Handmade Pac-Man Glass Beads
We love these Pac-Man game beads complete with scared ghosts and power pellets. The colorful trinkets were all handmade by glass beadmaker Sarah Hornik. You can see the rest of her cool wares in her flickr gallery. Link.
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Fan made U2 video in the virtual world
Here’s an amazing fan made U2 video – earlier we posted about the new (free) tool Avimator to make custom animations, so we’ll likely see a lot of videos like this hitting the web soon. One thing worth noting, the group that makes the U2 videos not only has concerts for fun, but to raise […]
MAKE – THE best way to raise gear
MAKE isn’t just for reading, on no! A sharp eyed MAKE reader spotted MAKE on our favorite news show, Rocketboom, being used to adjust raise their gear since they’ve moved to an awesomely new 16 x 9 format – today’s show also has some cool video of steam engine robots Link. Previously: Our interview with […]
Collections
WSJ article about collections, and what the collectors are worried about – “Young people today have little interest in the stamp, coin or knickknack collections of their elders, so an aging America can’t help but wonder: What’s going to happen to all those boxes in the basement?…In Palo Alto, Calif., Tom Wyman, 78, has about […]
HOW TO – Repair keys of an IR remote control
Extremely simple one image how to on repairing defective keys of a remote control. Just glue small pieces of aluminium foil onto the graphite contacts of the keys. Use a hole puncher to cut the small pieces out of the aluminium foil. Link.
The Social Arcade Table
Nick writes – “As part of a university final year games module we created a new kind of arcade table. We used our knowledge of existing hit arcade games, and added our own new technology to enable interfacing with Bluetooth enabled camera phones in order to enhance playability. Here’s the step-by-step documentation of how we […]
HOW TO – Make a “Chicken Moat”
Lower the drawbridge! Build your own chicken moat. Surround your veggie garden with a moat full of hungry chickens ready to eat bad bugs and protect your garden [via] Link.