To start off, we hook up the LCD module and show you how easy it is to send text to it! Then we hook up a GPS and run a program that reads the NMEA data off of it. Then we combined the two components together and went geocaching! In the PDF, you can see […]
Jason has a great how-to on using a Wii remote to control Mac OS X (Keynote) – A couple people wrote in today in response to my post about WiiRemote, the Windows Wiimote input device driver. More specifically, I’ve been reminded that I completely left the similarly capable DarwiinRemote for OS X out of the […]
A couple people wrote in today in response to my post about WiiRemote, the Windows Wiimote input device driver. More specifically, I’ve been reminded that I completely left the similarly capable DarwiinRemote for OS X out of the discussion. In all fairness, there was a driver roundup back in March that mentioned it, but what […]
Xyzzy writes – This was an attempt to make a RumblePak for my DS Lite. Sure you can buy them for a few $$$, but where is the fun in that? I wanted the Rumble Pak to fit into the existing blanking plate of the DS Lite that slots into the GBA cartridge slot. This […]
A MAKE reader writes in – Russian makers website with a lot of original DIY science and tech experiments. Now in Russian language only, but photos and videos are cool anyway. All this was done by a few young geeks from Phoenino village near Moscow. Молодежный научно-техничеÑкий центр – Link & translated pages.
This fellow is jammin with a homemade MIDI Nintendo controller – Link.
Windell writes in – Here’s an article in EDN magazine titled “Power with no strings attached” discusses practical small-scale wireless power transmission. There are two really cool things in this article. First, a cutaway through the base of rechargeable electric toothbrush, showing the inductive coupler design. (How these things work has been discussed recently in […]
