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Modified circuit bent NES

Modified circuit bent NES

Outstanding circuit bent NES, schematics, PCB layouts and how to make your own on the site. [via] – Link. Related: Circuit Bending – Modify a Casio keyboard (or other electronic audio stuff) and start playing some of the strangest sounds you’ve ever heard. MAKE 04 – Page 88 (subscribers log in). Circuit bend articles and […]

Fading Eyes LED project

Fading Eyes LED project

Design News has its latest “Gadget freak” how to up, build a fading LED for spooky projects – “Partial to things that go bump in the night, Bill built a circuit that slowly illuminates and fades a pair of red LEDs. It consists of two op amps, one producing a slow rising and falling voltage […]

Sketching in hardware

Sketching in hardware

Mike writes – “Sketching in Hardware ended yesterday, and it was awesome. We had folks from all over the DIY electronics spectrum talking bout creating tools for easy development of DIY electronics: David Mellis, of Arduino, Bjoern Hartmann and Scott Klemmer of Stanford, Nathan Seidle of Spark Fun, Tom Igoe of NYU, David Zicarelli, author […]

Photoshop cook-off contest

Photoshop cook-off contest

Ok Makers, O’Reilly is having a Photoshop cook-off contest, I’m pretty sure one of our MAKE readers could easily win it, you don’t need to buy anything, just photoshop something based on the books (or free PDFs) from the Photoshop Cookbook series – feel free to use the available MAKE photos from Flickr pool (with […]

Fix an Xbox… with a mint tin

Fix an Xbox… with a mint tin

Dirkus writes – “This altoids tin can help you replace an Xbox’s hard drive without any pesky modifications to the Xbox. It reads the EEPROM off in a fraction of a second, so you can feed it to whatever Xbox drive restoring/locking program you’re using and drop a new drive in the console and get […]