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Chia Plants on the new Xbox 360
Neat DIY-comment about the new Xbox 360. Henshaw expects the new faceplates to include game-themes and plenty of home grown versions. “There will be different colors, game-themed face plates, a lot of people making their own face plate with fabrics,” said Henshaw, who is growing a Chia plant on his 360’s faceplate. “What we found is that people tend to like electronics that allows them to be entertained the way they want to be entertained and people love the kind of device that allows them to make it a reflection of their own personality.” Link.
Play Records with a Laser
The ELP Laser Turntable plays records by beaming the laser at the grooves (no needles touche the record). There are a total of five lasers: two for the left and right groove walls, two for tracking groove pitch, and one for tracking groove warp. Sounds amazing, until I saw it was $18,999. I think we’ll need to a Make version! Link.
Access Files on the PSP from the Web Browser
If you experimented with turning your PSP in to a web browser using the old Wipeout Pure trick, then here’s something else to try. PSP Hacks Forums show access files on the UMD or the Memory Stick from HTML. Perhaps this could be useful for some type of kiosk application…Link.
5×7 LED Dot Matrix Pong
Here’s a LED pong game played right on the breadboard. The LED dot matrix is driven with time multiplexing. The columns are displayed one by one in rapid succession, giving the illusion that they are all lit at the same time. Source code and some photos to get your started. Link.
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Remotely Ridiculous
How many remotes do you have? Here comes photographic evidence that all the device manufacturers are out to get us. Eric posted his remotes…then others, and now I suspect we’ll have a new Flickr meme. So bring our your remotes, show’em if you got’em! And on a Maker note, what are you using (if any) to consolidate your remotes? Link.
