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Make Your Own Star Clock

Make Your Own Star Clock

Stars Tell what time it is, with the stars…Print this page from browser and cut out the circles below. If you don’t have a printer, try drawing your own star clock by copying the images below. Cut the notch on the smaller (blue) circle. Place the small circle on top of the large circle. Push a large paper faster to make a center hole through both circles and spread open the fastener on the back slde of the Star Clock or poke a hole through the circles with a pencil then thread a string or thin rubber band through the hole and knot it on both sides. Link.

HOW TO play games from other consoles and backing up UMDs for the PSP

HOW TO play games from other consoles and backing up UMDs for the PSP

Psp2-1-2-1 Good round up…it is also possible to play games from the Game Boy Advanced, NES and SNES, Sega Genesis, and other consoles? What about playing PSP games like Lumines — without the UMD? With the use of emulators and ISOs it is possible. If you are a PSP owner, you really can’t afford to miss this article that shows you how to set up an emulator and create backups of your UMDs to play directly from Memory Sticks. Link.

The Spookymobile

The Spookymobile

Car Pumpkin Unxmaal writes “Shadowstitch made this awesome car-DC-port-powered Halloween pumpkin – Wandered around the dollar store, bought a little plastic pumpkin and a cheap Discman car power supply. Wired up a few orange and yellow LEDs to oscillate inside the pumpkin. Voila. (nearly) Instant Halloween car decoration! Not bad for two dollars, some change, and a few spare LEDs”. Link. If you like this our 3rd volume has a lot of fun Halloween projects.

Play old arcade games with MAME

Play old arcade games with MAME

Mame New MAME! From its initial release in February 1997, MAME has grown to support over 5700 different arcade games from the early days of the 1970s through to today’s high-action 3D games, meaning it is the largest arcade machine emulator project in the world. The 0.100 release has been humourously titled “1.00”, poking fun at the MAME team’s statement that as long as new arcade machines are being released, their emulator will never be finished. Link.

PSP UMD Emulator V0.8

PSP UMD Emulator V0.8

Psp2-1-2 For 1.5 PSPs (I still haven’t gone to 2.0, very glad). Following in the footsteps of the Fastloader, here is another fine homebrew app for your pleasure. This time we present you a full featured UMD emulator, reboot & exitgame tight – you have to turn off your PSP completely (or crash it :p ) to get it back to original state. This is a semi-final version, some things are known not to work properly for now… Link.