Month: October 2006

Basement arcade

Basement arcade

Before After Jeff Kinder turned his basement in to a retro gaming heaven, including pumping in ambient arcade sounds, he writes “For the final phase of my project I installed 4 speakers up in-between the joists which play all 80’s music and the “Arcade Ambience” sound effect files that I downloaded from Andy Hofle’s website. […]

Shocking alarm clock

Shocking alarm clock

Clinton made a shocking alarm clock, literally, he writes – “The idea for this project came to me about a year ago, it was right around the time I made the homebrew handheld shocker. I wanted to make something that I could shock my unsuspecting friends with and yet have it still be very annoying, […]

HOW TO – Make paper

HOW TO – Make paper

B. Zedan wrote in with a great paper making how-to… – “A step-by-step tutorial on making paper in your kitchen, no fancy press required. Lots of notes on the photos for advice and help. I made this tutorial a year ago and since I’ve had people from all over tell me they used it to […]

Spooky glowing water….

Spooky glowing water….

FrenchCrawler shows you how to make some spooky water for your Halloween project(s) – “Looking for a new way to spook your trick or treaters? Maybe you have a haunted house that needs some added effects. Whatever your reason is, this is one way to creep people out. I did this by accident when I […]

Giant NES@!

Giant NES@!

Here’s a giant NES measuring in at 8 ft. wide, 3ft height, 3ft long, and in weighing in at 400 pounds… [via] Thanks James! – Link (10/01/06 entry). Related: This goes great with the world’s largest NES Controller! – Link. NES archives, hacks, mods and more – Link.