IMakeProjects.com made sonic grenades from cheap personal alarms – “Pull a pin, and after a few seconds these “grenades” emit a very loud and annoying alarm – instead of shrapnel. This can be used just for fun (toss one into a sleeping roommate’s bedroom, for example) or used on the honor-system to enhance any wargames […]
MAKE pal Mark shows how to turn an Amiga 500 into a lamp, it’s gorgeous! – Link.
Robotwisdom points to a super deal on the Matel Juicebox, $10 shipped! – Link. Related: Juicebox hacking on MAKE – Link. Juicebox gets Linux jolt – Link.
Wan & Carolyn write – “Here is a look inside Cube World…These are cool little cubes that are fun by themselves, but will interact when connected together! It would be great if we could figure out how to program our own graphics so we could introduce new “interactions”!!!! “ – Link.
Warcraft virtual-worlders, this is for you…Fruminator writes – “As of OGLE 0.3b, it is possible to capture texture coordinates (UV) for vertices that have them. This is enabled by the CaptureTextureCoords flag. Coupled with the fact that GLIntercept writes out to disk images for all the texture maps, this allows you to re-texture your capture […]
Clever design for a spray painting bot – “Hektor consists of a suitcase which contains two electric motors, a spray-can holder, toothed belts, cables, a strong battery and a circuit board which is connected to a laptop and controls the machine. The motors that are mounted onto the wall suspend the can holder through the […]
Robot gossip has a neat robot art project from Thomas Edwards – “Sycophant explores the relationship between viewers and a human-like robot. The human head is mounted on a motorized base which moves along a track. As a viewer walks by, the head follows on the track, while plying him or her with a cornucopia […]
