Month: September 2005
Amazing Mac based arcade cabinets – This MAME machine has, at its core, a Macintosh Powerbook. The display is therefore an LCD display and the motherboard, power supply, and hard drive diminutive. For these reasons I was able to keep an overall small machine… [
HOW TO play games from other consoles and backing up UMDs for the PSP
Good round up…it is also possible to play games from the Game Boy Advanced, NES and SNES, Sega Genesis, and other consoles? What about playing PSP games like Lumines — without the UMD? With the use of emulators and ISOs it is possible. If you are a PSP owner, you really can’t afford to miss this article that shows you how to set up an emulator and create backups of your UMDs to play directly from Memory Sticks. Link.
Another Geeky Board Game…Computer Rage from 1977
First this one, and now…I went to my local thrift store today to see what I could find. Every now and then I can find something really good. Today was a good day. I found this UNOPENED, still shrink-wrapped, board game called Computer Rage that is copyright 1977 by Creative Computing Magazine. It has classic, retro art on the front and the gameplay itself is so incredibly geeky! How many games do you know that have a space labelled “Output Queue”? It even uses three binary dice (so you can roll 0-7)! Link.
The Spookymobile
Unxmaal writes “Shadowstitch made this awesome car-DC-port-powered Halloween pumpkin – Wandered around the dollar store, bought a little plastic pumpkin and a cheap Discman car power supply. Wired up a few orange and yellow LEDs to oscillate inside the pumpkin. Voila. (nearly) Instant Halloween car decoration! Not bad for two dollars, some change, and a few spare LEDs”. Link. If you like this our 3rd volume has a lot of fun Halloween projects.
MAKE at the Apple Store – University Village Seattle, WA
On Saturday, September 17th, MAKE will present Podcasting 101: How to Make, Produce and Publish Podcasts – 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Learn what a podcast is and how to make them using your Mac and GarageBand. Also learn how to get listed in iTunes, RSS and more. I’ll also show how we make our enhanced podcasts, add videos and PDFs… Link.
HOW TO Turn Your Old Laptop Into a Digital Video Recorder
Nice to see articles like this from the NYTimes…Many new multimedia notebooks include built-in television tuner cards and software that let them double as digital video recorders. But you don’t have to buy a whole new laptop just to record your favorite shows… Not bad for $90. Link.
DIY satellites reinvent the space race
Soon, Romania, Colombia and a high school in San Jose, Calif., will join the space race. An ambitious program called CubeSat, developed at Stanford University and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, is giving students and companies the opportunity to build and launch functional satellites into low Earth orbit, or about 240 to 360 miles above the planet. Link.
