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The C64 DTV is a 30-in-1 Commodore 64 system for playing games using your TV. MAKE Flickr photo pool member bjepson hacked one up to use a PS2 keyboard. Photos here and project details here- Link. Pick up our 2nd issue of MAKE to get the thorough step by step and how-to!

The ELP Laser Turntable plays records by beaming the laser at the grooves (no needles touche the record). There are a total of five lasers: two for the left and right groove walls, two for tracking groove pitch, and one for tracking groove warp. Sounds amazing, until I saw it was $18,999. I think we’ll need to a Make version! Link.

How many remotes do you have? Here comes photographic evidence that all the device manufacturers are out to get us. Eric posted his remotes…then others, and now I suspect we’ll have a new Flickr meme. So bring our your remotes, show’em if you got’em! And on a Maker note, what are you using (if any) to consolidate your remotes? Link.

You know those hilarious/ridiculous singing animatronic mounted fish? Marty Vona gives full instructions for how to make one utter any audio you want, based on a $9 chipcorder and a $7 microcontroller. Link.

This morning I spent ten minutes making the motor from the Howtoons cartoon in the first issue of Make. It consists of one AA battery, two safety pins, a magnet, some Scotch tape, a piece of telephone extension cable wire, a pad of Post-It notes, and a little nail polish. It’s been spinning for four hours so far. I like the clickety clickety sound is makes. I shot a little movie of it in action. (It’s an MP4, so you might have to download it to watch it.) Link