The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Tim writes – “We will be sponsoring a treehouse building workshop in Santa Cruz, CA (about an hour south of San Francisco) on May 5,6 and 7th. The world famous treehouse builder and innovator Michael Garnier will be teaching the workshop. He owns Treesort treehouse resort in Takilma, OR and has built a treehouse for […]
David writes – “Radio Shack sells a $19 TV game called “Hummer offroad Racing” which has a full Commodore 64 inside that can be turned into a full computer.” – Link. Related: Hacking the C64 DTV. Retro-gaming joystick easily converts into full Commodore computer emulator. MAKE 02 – Page 149.
Rick writes – “Boiling eggs that have been wrapped snugly in onion skins, produces beautifully patterned Easter eggs. I never really cared for the usual colourful Easter eggs most people make. They’re too gaudy for my taste. I don’t like the mess involved with making them and I don’t like using all that food colouring. […]
Tonight there is a total solar eclipse 2am PST 03/29/05 in Turkey – here are the ways to watch it — Exploratorium – watch live streaming video – “A total solar eclipse will occur when the new moon moves directly between the sun and the earth. The moon’s shadow will fall on the eastern tip […]
Simon writes – “Well, we’ve pulled it off and a Second Life sim now exists in real space. We have a blog where we’ve begun to detail the technical process that got us her. We’ll be updating it extensively over the next week with more photos and info as the show progresses.” – Link. Ok, […]
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 […]
