The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Bryan writes “Milestag is an open source, high quality, and full featured DIY laser tag system that can be built from basic electronic parts avaliable from almost any electronics parts store. All this for about $50-$100 a gun, where a commercial gun equivalent to it would cost around $800-$2000 a gun”. Link.
I’d use this if I upgraded to 2.0. What this is meant to be is an offline website, accessible at all times by your PSP. If you do have an internet connection, there is an assortment of links to help you through the internet without using PSP’s dial-a-key-board, including fast links to e-mail, searches, and online messengers. This is accessible to anybody using the official PSP Firmware 2.00 built-in browser. Link.
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Inspired by Ian Meyer’s Google Maps on iPod Photo, I decided to do the same on Sony PSP. Using the Sony PSP’s excellent 480 x 272 widescreen LCD and image pan and zoom function, I only need one high-resolution view from Google Maps. Link.
Ben Heck rocks…a few months ago a guy emails asking if I could build a portable Neo Geo MVS system. I tell him it’s possible, but I’d have to work with some hardware to do tests. He kindly sends me a Neo Geo MV-1C, which is a 1-slot (holds 1 game) Neo Geo arcade motherboard from 1999, pretty much the last and newest model they made. If anything would run off a battery and be small enough that was it. Luckily I had a semi-built Neo Geo rig to test the new board with... Link.
Wow a Mac version of our volume 02 PC Atari project! The goal? Turning a vintage 1970’s Atari 2600 game consol into a Macintosh computer, running the latest and greatest Mac OS X. The catch? Try and keep the Atari looking stock, up to a point. Link.
MAKE pal CK has a cool DIY PSP stand…attached it to what used to be a cheap Ikea desk lamp and ran the charger cord through the thing, so now I have a fully positional desk stand for hands free movie viewing on my PSP. Link. Update: He made a new one!
