HOW TO – Make gameshow-style hand buzzers
Nick writes – “Here’s a a small tutorial for fabricating gameshow-style hand buzzers (in this case, used for the PC game “You Dont Know Jack”, played on an emulated arcade cabinet).” – Link.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
HOW TO – Run homebrew on the Nintendo DS Lite
Leonard has a short overview on getting homebrew apps and more running on the Nintendo DS – “To be able to run homebrews, emulators, backups and the like, you’ll need two things. First you need a passkey to boot into DS mode. The latest and greatest is the Max Media Launcher, which replaces the older […]
3D Milling service for virtual worlds
And so it begins! Mark over on 3pointD has a bit about a new 3D printing service for virtual world avatars / objects, looks like it might be $50 a pop – “Second Life residents will soon be able to order up physical versions of their avatars, their builds or their favorite Second Life objects […]
nPod – Portable NES
Ben has a new console meets handheld creation – the nPod. The nPod is a NES with 3.5″ screen, runs on 4 AA’s and uses the original NES cartridges, here’s his “how it’s made” page – [via] – Link.
LEGO Pinball machine
The NXTblog is doing a look back at pre-NXT Mindstorm creations starting off with this one, a LEGO pinball machine – “Designed and built by Gerrit Bronsveld and Martijn Boogaarts, this fully functional pinball machine boasts a number of novel features, including a working coin slot (50 cent Euro coins only, please!), a functional tilt […]
LEGO Rolling ball clock
Philo writes “When Bob Kojima announced his rolling ball clock on Lugnet a few months ago, I knew I had to build one someday… I bought a stock of balls on Bricklink, and here is the result. The main modification was the use of a RCX to obtain good long time stability – I finally […]
NYC 3D Prints using OGLE: OpenGLExtractor + Google Earth
Using Google Earth and OGLE, 3D “prints” of buildings in NYC – “The 3D buildings OGLE’d from Google Earth are not ready to be 3D printed off the bat. Each building is a composition of multiple vertical volumes that have walls and a ceiling but no floor. By computationally (i.e. hacked up OBJ-file-processing perl script!) […]
