Montreal Mini Maker Faire: Meet The Buttonmashers
One of the exhibits at this weekend’s first Montreal Mini Maker Faire will be The Buttonmashers’ Arcade Royale, a four-player, re-habbed, re-programmed, and re-made video game cabinet.
Gaming
Beware of Gravity Dips
Spotted on Facebook. The floor of a Paris game store. The floor is, of course, flat.
Alt.Comic-Con: Strolling Artists’ Alley
My morning at Comic-Con was jam-packed, and I do mean jam-packed. It’s absurdly crowded. The whole harbor area of San Diego is aswarm with unwashed geek masses (and the booth babes who pretend to like them). Just crossing the street is a major logistical undertaking. The first thing you notice when you register is the […]
How-To: Add Articulation to Skylander Figures
Ever since Skylanders was released last holiday season, one of the most commonly requested additions to the franchise has been articulated toys. Custom toy maker Jin Saotome decided not to wait. He’s created a bunch of highly articulated Skylanders mods, many featuring plastic representations of their powers. Now he’s produced a step-by-step guide for modding […]
Ping Pong Ball Suction Construction
This appeals to my childish desire to add more chaos to the game of ping pong. From Make: friend Niklas Roy In Spring/Summer 2012 both guys were invited to create an installation version of Ping Pong Country in Lille’s Gare St. Sauveur. They were a bit tired of doing the same thing for such a […]
Intern’s Corner: My Open Source Life Outside of MAKE
For the past two and a half years, I’ve been helping to develop an open source video game called Alien Arena. I’d been playing the game for a long time before this. I’d noticed a few bugs that needed fixing, and features that needed adding. A nice thing about open source development is that you […]
Ogre “Designer’s Edition” Funded 2000% and Rising
A dice and cardboard wargame raising half a million on Kickstarter? The sixth edition of the classic wargame “Ogre” looks like it’s going to be awesome.
