DIY accelerometer controlled USB gamepad
Check out this homebrew accelerometer controlled USB gamepad using a PIC18F2550 from Starlino. You’ll find code and schematics on their site.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Banned Xboxs flood online marketplaces
Banned Xboxs flood online marketplaces via BBG. Hundreds of Xboxs have appeared on online marketplaces such as eBay and Craigslist in the wake of the mass Xbox live bans. Over the past week Microsoft has banned nearly one million users from the online gaming service after finding that they had modified their consoles to play […]
“Father of video games” documentary
Motherboard has this wonderful look inside the world (and workshop) of Ralph Baer, creator of Pong, Simon, and other electronic/video game classics. Ralph Baer and His All-Purpose Boxes
DIY bike repair stand
Sometimes our bikes break, and when they do it’s a lot easier to repair them if you have a stand. Too expensive? Then make you own bicycle repair stand with a few parts form the hardware store.
Productive Plastic Playthings
A look back at 1960s maker toys.
Intern’s Corner: Test-firing the HHO rocket
Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Steven Lemos, engineering intern Making the Hydrogen-Oxygen Bottle Rocket (that Adam Savage is posing with on the cover of the new MAKE, Volume 20) was a pretty basic […]
Toy Story
How the creator of the Superplexus turned a childhood idea into a lifelong passion.