The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Wow, I’m on a Flash developer list and one of the members sent out this amazing “game” that uses your web camera (iSight or whatever) to play basketball – the motion is used to smack the ball around, like the PS2 Eyetoy, it’s a lot of fun! Great use of Director! – Link.
Calhoun writes – “After a run of mini-upright cabinets, I decided to once again try out a cocktail (or sit-down) style cabinet. Based on the flat-panel iMac, this machine too is LCD-based. For space concerns, that is fortunate. I think, like Apple, I’m done with large, heavy CRT’s. “ [via] – Link.
Linux cluster, made from 65 PlayStation 2s! – “The NCSA has constructed a PlayStation 2 Linux cluster as a test bench for scientific computation on “toy” hardware. The cluster consists of 65 compute nodes, 4 user login and development nodes, and 1 prototype node for software installation tests. All the nodes run the Sony Linux […]
The gang at Xbox-scene have some shots and info of a handy adaptor that will connect your Xbox360 HD to your PC without cracking open the case – 360Sata Adapter & Link.
David writes – “Radio Shack sells a $19 TV game called “Hummer offroad Racing” which has a full Commodore 64 inside that can be turned into a full computer.” – Link. Related: Hacking the C64 DTV. Retro-gaming joystick easily converts into full Commodore computer emulator. MAKE 02 – Page 149.
Tonight there is a total solar eclipse 2am PST 03/29/05 in Turkey – here are the ways to watch it — Exploratorium – watch live streaming video – “A total solar eclipse will occur when the new moon moves directly between the sun and the earth. The moon’s shadow will fall on the eastern tip […]
Simon writes – “Well, we’ve pulled it off and a Second Life sim now exists in real space. We have a blog where we’ve begun to detail the technical process that got us her. We’ll be updating it extensively over the next week with more photos and info as the show progresses.” – Link. Ok, […]
