What’s the cheapest way to get an oscilloscope?
Tons of great suggestions on finding (and building) a cheap oscilloscope from the MAKE forums – Link.
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Xbox 360 Memory transfer kit
Lik-Sang has a review of a $14 Xbox 360 to PC memory transfer kit – “For those of you who think 64 Megs is just not enough, we have today received stock of the Memory Transfer Kit from Datel for Xbox 360.” – Link. $5 DIY version – Link.
Robot to look after the elderly
Doesn’t get more NEWS FROM THE FUTURE than this… – “The RI-MAN robot carries a life-sized doll at the Riken laboratory in Nagoya, central Japan. The RI-MAN is a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country’s growing number of elderly.” [via] Link. Related: […]
NES Zapper Mouse
Turn a NES gun into a mouse (good for Duck hunt MAME) – Link.
Build your own answering machine
I’m going to make this “answering machine” for my rotary cell phone – Popular Electronics 1958 Link.
Roomba pool! – Poomba?
First ever human vs autonomous / hacked pool playing Roomba at the Gawker/Lifehacker party at South by Southwest – the human controls the Roomba and tries to get the pool balls in before the programmed robot. Link.
HOW TO – Make a custom library part in Eagle’s CAD tool
Kd7vnn writes – “The eagle cad tool is a great thing. It does have something that I see as a draw back. That is that you need to pick a package for your part while you are still working on the schematic phase of a project. I assume Cadsoft, the makers of eagle, have their […]