MAKE pal Roger Ibars is selling the first Sony alarm clock controlled by Nintendo light gun… ” The idea of the Hard-wired devices is simple: I re-manufacture existing electronic devices by upgrading their interfaces with better ones (or strange ones too). Think about it, there are lots of poorly designed interfaces for products (hey, don’t […]
This movie was made entirely in Second Life, and every object you see was made by a person, even the cameras are scriptable objects. There’s a lot of machinima and DIY film making going on, so if you’re interested with what’s possible with this “tool” of sorts check it out. I really want to play […]
Shawn Bonkowski sent in these wonderful photos and write up from the Floor It! project that he developed with Mike Albers – Link. Idea/Problem/Context The idea was to create a compelling competitive experience for boys 7-10 years old. We were interested in creating a bridge between physical and virtual play. The solution needed to be […]
PalmInfocenter member twrock has posted images and details about his external headset mod for the Palm TX. He added a smaller 2.5 mm headphone/mic port to his TX in an external adapter that connects to the athena hotsync port. He intends to use it for voice recording and for future Palm OS VoIP applications. Link.
Christian “Mekkaniak” Eriksson writes – “Kids (8-9 years) at a local school here in Sweden just finished two days of “tinkering”. Using old VCRs, broken powertools, computerparts and other bits and pieces of abandoned technology, they created fantasy robots that can make anything from doing homework to stopping time. This teaches the Make spirit, creativity… […]
I spotted this on Digg, I think some more testing needs to be completed with better control groups, files and players but even if there’s a tiny loss, that’s a huge waste of time and power – “Tests were done on portable music players using standard MP3 files and DRM encrypted WMA files. The results. […]
MAKE friend Jake von Slatt pointed us to this fascinating tutorial on hand spinning dog hair into skeins of yarn! From the site, “Chiengora (pronounced she-an-gora) is the name people are using for dog hair. Chien is French for dog and gora is from angora, the fiber the hair most closely resembles. Dog hair is […]
