The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Master modder Ben Heck has created a masterpiece “Of all the portable videogame devices I’ve ever built over the years one system has always been my “Holy Grail” to make – my “dream portable” if you will. (Yes, even more so than my Neo Geo arcade machine) And now after a couple years of tinkering it is complete! Without further ado – the Atari 800 XE Laptop!” Link.
Good overview of the Machinima film fest and making films in the virtual world, the entries are great! – “Machinima is film-making using video game engines, hybridizing traditional film, animation, and game development. Lots of fun…A full list of festival winners, nominees and presenters are up on the festival site. Big ups to Machinima Man Paul Marino and everyone who put it together. Already looking forward to next year’s fest which will have two full days of machinima.” Link.
The PSP homebrew community seems to have a potential way to run code on a PSP using a TIFF overflow (again) on the new firmware versions of the PSP (2.50). While there isn’t a downgrader or homebrew applications, this is how it usually starts and hopefully we’ll see some more examples soon. It would be wonderful if Sony would just let folks download a SDK instead, right? [via] Link.
Latest episode of Hak.5! “In this episode of Hak.5 Wess builds a mini arcade cabinet for under $100, Harrison attacks SSL with Whoppix, Darren defends himself by setting up a VPN server on XP, and Jon Harrison’s take on buffer overflows with beer.” Thanks Kim! Link.
This appears to be a LEGO 3D milling machine / CNC router. The site has photos of the specific X, Y and Z motors – along with an example of a 3D part being milled out. There are not a lot of details, but it’s really impressive – is there anything LEGOs can’t do? Thanks Karel! Link.
We’ve covered some of the LEGO software, but it’s always worth another looksie, it appears LEGO has added more resources for designing your own LEGO bot – JBB writes “Lego factory A boon to lego robot builders, the lego factory lets you build a virtual model of your unique lego structure and order those blocks as a custom set. Add your robot’s sensors and other such items, and you’ve got a beautiful custom robot.” Link.
Here are some LEGO man jewelry from Plastic Bat Jewelry – one set is a LEGO man head dangling from earrings, the other is a pretty nice bracelet complete with blocks and a full size LEGO dude. If you’re a crafty-maker type, you could likely make these on your own too. [
