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Mister Jalopy of Dinosaurs and Robots points us to these cool collections of classic camping kerosene lamps and stoves. Having spent the better part of my youth hiking and camping, I fondly remember a lot of these models. Spiritburner.com Motoshi Makino’s Classic Camping Collection Other awesome stove/lantern collections via Spiritburner.com
Bricogeek’s “Ardugame” is and Arduino based handheld gameboy-look-alike that looks like a lot of fun. The machine’s equipped with an OLED display, speaker, accelerometer, and even a DB9 port for multiplayer expansion. – Ardugame [google translation]
To followup our previous post about this project, New Zealand born, Madrid-based artist, Julian Oliver has released the source code under the GPL for his excellent “Level Head” installation that uses computer vision and ARToolkit marker imprinted cubes as the user interface of a game in which a character moves through a 3D labyrinth. Also, […]
This time we are going to be making a Zoetrope from a bunch of junk. What is a Zoetrope? Here is what I found on Wikipedia: The earliest elementary zoetrope was created in China around 180 AD by the prolific inventor Ting Huan. It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. […]
Add this to the long list of things pigeons can do, but probably shouldn’t… Play video games. Lego Birdcam. LEGO lady feeding the LEGO pigeons.
On Ben Heck’s forums, this modder shows how he managed to cram an Xbox 360 wired controller inside the shell of a PS3 Dual Shock shell. This mod is done with the PS3 board (original version) stripped of almost all of its parts and the controller’s daughter board kept intact (mostly) and the CL board […]
Aah, Chris’ groom’s cake is picture-perfect gaming confection – The single most awesome groom’s cake ever. Note the raised buttons made of butter creme frosting. It was delicious. Dibs on the crosspad! – His Cake on Flickr [via Neatorama] More: Gamer wedding cake on CRAFT
