InventionDB iPod contest ending next week!
Michael writes “The InventionDB iPod contest is ending on Sunday 1/8/06. The contest will award the best project entry with a 30 gigabyte iPod video. Creators of any age and experience level are welcome to enter – all you have to do is create a project entry with three images and three connected resources. Entries are judged primarily on quality of the documentation (concise description, pictures, resources, etc.). InventionDB.com is an online database of projects, resources, creators, communities and vendors. It provides users with free tools to quickly build online project documentation.” Link.
Video of a wireless MIDI glove…“haduz is a 24 year-old computer engineering graduate and musician from Bologna, Italy. He’s developed the 3DID wireless MIDI glove, with 5 bend sensors (I’m guessing that’s fingers), 3 gyroscopes, 3 accelerometers and 18 hours of battery life. As he says: “The most exciting thing is that the cost of the actual prototype (the glove shown in the video) together with the wireless receiver is about 150 euros.” Thanks Tom! 
Hunter is looking for some ideas for the discarded game gear he found, post up in the comments! – “My friend and I had an unusually lucky day and we got a lot of free electronics. Some of them working and some not. Here’s what we got: N64 – working, original playstation – working PS2 – works sometimes, Gameboy pocket – not working, gamecube – almost new condition and working and working we already have all of these so we were wondering if you would have any suggestions on how we could mod them or what we could make them into. it doesnt necessarily have to be all of them together. we were thinking about making the PS2 sphere but the PS2 doesnt work all the time and there isnt a step by step instruction on how to make the PS2 sphere.”
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Here’s a great list of NES projects, we’ve covered some of them here on MAKE, but there are lots of project that are new (to me)…“Got one of those extra NESes lying around? Bored out of your mind? Well you’ve come to the right place to find out you can modify with your Nes, here is a list of links to things you could modify with your Nes.” Thanks knoppy44!