MAME cabinet on a budget
Steve DeGroof built a MAME cabinet almost entirely from materials found around his house. Total cost of purchased materials: ~$100. Check out the build photos and comments on how he did it. Link. Previous MAME project here.
Technology
Automatically geocode your Flickr photos
Zonetag is an automatic geocode phone application for Nokia series 60 phones. Some of the features –“2-click photo upload to Flickr. Easily find your photos using location-based search When you upload your photos, ZoneTag will automatically tag the photo with the location where the photo was taken. ZoneTag can also connect via Bluetooth to a […]
White box robotics – interview with Tom Burick
VIA Arena has an interview with Tom Burick of White Box Robotics about the 914 PC BOT – back in May of 2005 MAKE spoke with Tom and his DIY PC based robotics platform. Looks like they’re getting close to shipping this year and we’ll see how a low cost mobile robot from off-the-shelf computer […]
Turn your computer keyboard into a music keyboard
This looks like a fun way to turn your computer into an instrument – “BackToBasics allows you to import sounds and assign them to the 47 alpha numeric keys on the standard computer keyboard so that they can be played in much the same way as a MIDI keyboard and sampler. Each of the 47 […]
Building a MAME (Retro arcade game cabinet)
MAKE Flickr photo pool member aTanguay writes – “This is the log of the construction of my ‘MAME’ Arcade cabinet in the late summer of 2005. Another in a long line of hair brained schemes and brutal wastes of time and resources. The main box came together very quickly, then all the little details ate […]
RS232 Bluetooth modem! The BlueDongle
SparkFun is officially THE COOLEST, this Bluetooth serial dongle is going to make dozens of projects easier – uses the standard serial com port interface (no need to mess with USB drivers or software) and steals power from USB! “The BlueDongle is the latest Bluetooth devices from SFE. These units are based on the BlueRadios […]
HOW TO – LED throwies with on/off tabs
MAKE pal Everythingdigital.org writes “Here’s a step-by-step guide on making your own magnetic LED throwies that can be tossed and stick to anything magnetic. Based on an Instructables tutorial.” Link.