The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Mark3 writes with own version of the DIY Xbox remote – “I did something similar with a PIC, though not as feature full as the one on the linked site. Mine supports powerup using the xbox dvd remote and shutdown/reboot by holding a predefined button for 5 seconds. I was initially planning on selling them, […]
If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to walk around upside down, The BBC’s Might Truck of Stuff has a PDF how-to on making your own upside down glasses – Thanks Gavin! Link. A pal IMed me and said “The Upside-down goggles thing is very interesting. Did you know there was an experimenter […]
Detailed instructions on making a DIY Open source IR-mod for Xboxes …XERC, it is a small device that basically allows you to turn on/off your Xbox with a remote. You can boot using a short power press, long power press, and can also boot with eject. Link.
This homemade portable Xbox with battery pack and LCD screen won’t fit in your pocket, but you’re guaranteed to take up 2 seats anywhere you go with it – [via] – Link.
Dave reminded me that I needed to post up about the GP2X, he writes – “Here’s a website for a do-it-yourself opensource linux handheld game/media console. It is based on a dual core 240 MHz ARM CPU, 64 Megabytes RAM, SD card support up to 4 Gigabytes, and has a bright 3.5″ TFT display. It […]
Wow! Here’s voice recognition and speech synthesis for playing Infocom games (like Zork) over the phone, this might be the coolest VoIP project ever – [via] – Link.
Inventgeek has the start of a DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) dance pad – can be used with the free/open source Stepmania we’ve posted about before – Link. Related: StepMania: A DIY Dance Dance Revolution – Link. $10 Kraft dance pad hacking – Link. Disassembly / modification of Kraft GamePad – Link. Use your feet to […]
