Month: December 2007

Maker blinged out tree

Maker blinged out tree

Jovino writes in – Once again, we rigged together our make-shift xmas tree. It’s fabricated out of modular wire bookshelves connected with bailing wire. Plushies are stuffed all over it. The lights are LED lightstrips set to green (of course), cold cathode blacklights and fluorescent lights. Two 5″ televisions battle it out with snow and […]

Johnny Chung Lee’s Wiimote hacks

Johnny Chung Lee, who you may recall from $14 steadicam fame (read about it in Make:01), is also a very proficient Wiimote hacker. His latest, demonstrated in the video above, is a prototype VR system that uses the Wiimote and a head-mounted IR LED as a head tracking device. The software transforms a standard monitor […]