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Bruno Soares wanted to play a classic Super Nintendo game on his cell phone, but it’s touch screen was unresponsive and just wasn’t cutting it as a controller. Instead of just giving up, he devised a Rube Goldberg-esque system to connect an actual SNES controller to his phone.
Building a tablet app? Then you’ll dig this cool iPad Dry Erase Board from Design Commission. It even comes with a couple of pens and a handy list of icons on the back.
On Monday AM, we rolled out a few changes to the makezine.com homepage. If you’re used to coming to the site through blog.makezine.com, you might want to start coming in through the front door. Every day, we’ll be updating the three-image gallery at the top with links to popular posts, projects, special features, contests, and […]
Do you ever wish you could take your CAD drawings with you wherever you went? With the release of AutoCAD WS for Android, your chances of accomplishing this feat have increased dramatically as Autodesk brings this mobile version of their venerable CAD software in sync with the iOS version.
Using projected light from four different directions, an app called Trimensional, from Georgia Tech researcher Grant Schindler, will assemble a 3D scan using an iPhone 4’s built-in camera. Once you’ve captured a desirable visage you can optionally memorialize said countenance by outputting a watertight file and sending it to your favorite 3D printer.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
From the MAKE Flickr pool: Flickr user usopyon and friends created this internet-enabled cotton candy machine. It consists of an Arduino-powered colored sugar mixer, which dispenses measured amounts of pink, green, and blue sugar to create a uniquely colored puff of cotton candy for each user. Yum!
