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Our BFFs over at iFixIt went medieval on the just-released Nintendo DSi XL. They sort of looked at it as practice, keeping themselves in shape and head-sharp for this Saturday’s iPad release. You know they’ll be the first in line, screwdrivers and spudgers twitching in their hands. On the DSi XL teardown, Kyle writes: Nintendo […]
Dutch maker Guus Oosterbaan used a cheesy off-the-shelf pong console, gutted it, wrapped the guts in duct tape, and embedded it in a concrete block. He also made a radio embedded in cement.
I first blogged about Brian H.’s classic NES “harmonicarts” two weeks ago. Since that time, I am pleased as punch to announce, Brian has opened a store selling them in our very own Makers Market. Right now he’s got Top Gun and WWF Wrestlemania versions available, both in the key of C major.
Samantha at the SF Examiner has a great photo tutorial on how to refashion an old bridesmaid dress into a ruffled rose pillow.
Inspired by Atari’s 1979 Lunar Lander game, Iain Sharp created this excellent lunar landing simulator to honor the 40th anniversary of the landing. The electronics for Lunar Lander are based around ATMEL AVR microcontrollers. An Arduino board acts as a convenient USB to serial converter which makes the computer interface nice and easy. All the […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool: This cute assemble-yourself lamp is available in kit form from the Chinese website GeekCook.net (?) and costs 78 yuan. Mangled translation courtesy of Google: Impetuous anxiety in this vast land, and we afford to dream of a moment’s peace. In the night, lit one for himself only to his own […]
I came across Cap’n Ron’s lamb made of butter shavings the other day, and I find it really endearing. According to Wikipedia, it is a Polish Catholic tradition to make a lamb out of butter for Easter. Which got me curious about other interesting traditional Easter foods out there. Of course there are Easter eggs, […]
