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Ryan writes in- This could make an interesting MAKE hack. I’m sure the brainwave scanner isn’t high quality but it still could be neat to take apart and come up with some projects. Toy trains ‘Star Wars’ fans to use The Force… Could The Force be with you? A toy due in stores this fall […]
Each year over 100,000 people visit the Las Vegas area to celebrate consumer electronics at an event called “CES” – in addition to all of the announcements, press releases and the constant coverage on our favorite gadget sites there’s been a dark cloud creeping in, there seems to be a growing resentment among the folks […]
Chris Williams wanted a small 2-stroke scooter, so he decided to make his own out of a bike and a leaf blower engine. This was one of those projects I couldn’t get out of my head. I had seen, on the internet and in person, the small 2-stroke engine powered scooters which were becoming increasingly […]
Spiffy face lift for an old toy… Luis Fernando Espinal Ceballos of Colombia wanted to give his cousin’s son the slot track racing set he loved as a child. But the toy seemed unbearably old-fashioned. So Luis jazzed it up with a new electronic control system. He dumped the old battery box and replaced it […]
Recently I have been taking apart and rewiring some remote control cars that I picked up at the town dump or local yard sales. Some of my students have also been in on the fun, and we are aiming to make them into programmable robotic cars. Take a look at the photos and see what […]
Dhananjay Gadre has created another great project! We recently built a LED spinning top with message display. Its an improved version of a similar top published by Elektor in their December 2008 issue. The Elektor top can be spun only in one direction. The synchronization required to print message on the LEDs arranged along the […]
MAKE Projects Editor, Paul Spinrad, sent me a link to this project and the following message: Some CS / Game Development students hacked a Lord Of The Rings pinball machine, taking full control of its sensors, actuators, and display, and reprogrammed it to play Pinhorse — like the basketball game, but you try to match […]
