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San Jose MAKERs and hackers! Annual celebration of coin operated pinball machines, video games and other novelties. It’s two days that celebrate this exceptional entertainment medium, featuring tournaments, speakers, parts vendors, and an opportunity to play games you may have not seen for years. All the games on display are set for free play Link.
“LinuxDevices has profiled a new portable game- and media-player based on embedded Linux. The GPX2-F100 features dual ARM9 processors, USB 2.0, a 3.5-inch color LCD, and support for both native and emulated games. A Linux SDK (software development kit) will be available when the device ships. Hmmm… I wonder how hard it’ll be to get GPE and OPIE running on it?” [via] Link.
MAKE will be at OSCON for the rest of the week. OSCON is the annual open source convention, looks like over 2,000 people are here. MAKE will be presenting at the O’Reilly booth throughout the week (Linux devices, PSP hacking…) and doing a presentation on Friday (DIY culture stuff). Here are some quick photos I took before anyone got here. Link. Oh, if there are any sessions or MAKER-like people you want me to interview post up in the comments.
Is there anything the TI’s can’t do?…it’s not one of those slow and unplayable basic games. This is a real-time 3d-raycaster based on the game by id. Also includes an on-calc mapeditor. Link.
This python script runs on Linux and harvests system stats, creating graphs and assembling them in a page suitable for viewing on the PSP. It also dynamically reloads the images through Javascript, creating a smoother user experience. Tested with firmware 2.00 only. Link.
We now conclude the MAKE Magazine DEFCON coverage. We have a special spot on MAKE with all the enhanced audio podcasts, images, posts and more. It was a logistically challenging event to cover, but it worked out and best of all we met so many MAKERs, new friends, old friends and had a wonderful time- see you there next year! Link.
Everyone at DEFCON went out of their way to get/learn/explore the Cisco flaw because of the way it was (poorly) handled…Angered and inspired by Cisco’s attempts to suppress news of the flaw earlier in the week, several computer security experts at the Defcon computer-security conference worked past midnight Saturday to discover and map out the vulnerability. I saw the PDF(s) actually being handed out to random people all over Vegas too. Link.
