Knitting Podcasts
Whip up has got a nice round up today of great knitting podcasts to check out. Link.
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HOW TO – Famicom to NES game conversion
Mister Joshua writes – “Apparently some NES cartridges contain a removable/reusable adapter that enables one to place the guts of a Famicom game inside an NES cartridge and play it on any American NES console. A step-by-step guide is provided, along with useful tips for determining whether flea market cartridges contain a Famicom adapter.” Link.
Crochet Taxidermy Art
Currently on display at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Feb 14 – April 9) in Warsaw, Poland, is the crochet artwork of Louise Weaver. Weaver crochets “skins” on tops of various 3d objects including taxidermists’ forms of native Australian animals. [ via ] Link.
Review: Animal Crossing and Electroplankton
Zonk on Slashdot has an excellent review of the only two “games” I “play” for the Nintendo DS – “When is a game not a game? Because it’s software designed to run on the Nintendo DS, Electroplankton and Animal Crossing: Wild World are packaged and sold as traditional games. Despite that, they don’t have many […]
HOW TO – Make a PS2 Serial Cable
Marcus made a serial port for a PS2 “This page has instructions for building your own serial cable that connects directly to the PS2’s EE processor. It only needs 5 wires soldered onto the PS2 mainboard, and a simple interface circuit to convert the EE’s voltage levels to the standard RS232 levels.” [via] Link.
HOW TO – LCD Window kit case mod
Jared writes – “Nowadays its nearly impossible to get a case with out a window kit, and the prestige has long since died. Well with this project I will attempt to bring back some of the glory of the good ole days with a new window kit that has much more flexibility and power than […]
Cigar box guitar photos
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Pasque writes – “I am building guitars out of cigar boxes with my students at Roberto Clemente in Ann Arbor, MI. Here are some photos of the prototype I built at home (now updated with photos of my students’ guitars). I went begging and got a bunch of wooden fingerjointed […]