The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Aaron writes – “idBoy is a piece of software for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. With idBoy and a simple homebrew interface, the Game Boy Advance makes a dandy bunny. It has great battery life, has square-wave synthesis audio channels (among others) perfect for producing CW (morse code) tones, and has a link port perfect […]
Xexter in the Maxconsole forums figured out how to run a NES emulator on an Xbox 360 using a Media Center, no sound – but the games run at full speed, nice! – “Found a way to add a menu for the roms list so you will have to edit the nes.htm and change to […]
Calazon Enterprises made a fun stop motion LEGO movie, with an unhappy ending for a frog. When will the frog abuse craze end? – [via] – Link. Related: More LEGO stop motion videos – Link. Stop Motion Animation, the Easy Way. With iStopMotion, making Gumby is less pokey. MAKE 02 – Page 129.
What you’re looking at isn’t an arena filled with thousands of people, it’s an insanely detailed arena, made out of LEGO – Link.
It’s not the first LEGO PC, and certainly won’t be the last – but I like it! – “Lego PC that SCREAMS 80s LEGO with what I think are the most recognized LEGO sets of the 80s representing Space, Castle, Town, with Touch Screen LCD, RF Remote, Blue UV light, Spectrum Analyzer display, etc. etc.” […]
“Real” Pong! – “Pongmechanik is an absolutely physical game. The game is realized electromechanically, and essentially consists of four elements: A relay computer, the mechanical movement with collision detection, the display and the acoustic components.” [via] – Link.
Our pals at iLounge have a recap of what might be an interesting development for gamers & developers – I’d love to grab games over WiFi on my DS from an iTunes-like store – “During a keynote address yesterday at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata divulged further plans […]
