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.
Month: February 2006
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 […]
Let it Roll – Crochet Katamari Damancy
Katamari Damancy is the Japanese video game whereby your mission is to rebuild the stars, constellations, and moon by rolling a magical sticky ball (Katamari) and collecting objects around a location. Here a clever crafter made a real life Katamari Damancy out of crochet and magnets. [via] Link.
Run homebrew games on the DS with a $20 mod chip…
Run homebrew games on the DS – “PassMe gives you the ability to test your programs on the DS hardware, not just in an emulator and allows you to download demo’s from the internet and play them on your DS. It redirects the DS to a GBA Flash cart, so you can run your own […]
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 […]
How Columbia bicycles were made
Pat sent in this week’s video from the National Association of Manufacturers – “…here’s a 6-minute video of the Westfield (Mass.) Manufacturing Company, makers of the Columbia bicycle (from the 1950’s) “bringing health and pleasure to millions of Americans.” Indeed..feel the vintage manufacturing vibe!” Link. Pictured here, a gorgeous 1950 Columbia Bicycle from the Nostalgic.net […]
Legal pad + grid paper = Doane paper
Doane was in a product design meeting and noticed half the people were using legal pads and the other half grid paper, so combined the two – you can download this free paper and print it out here – [via] Link.