MAKE subscriber Sam Seide (Oklahoma City, OK) makes these amazing cocktail arcade machines. Here’s his most impressive build to date, a two-player tiny cocktail arcade. Here he gives a pretty extensive tour of the build. Tiny Cocktail Arcade Auction More: Restoring a Pac-Man cocktail arcade machine
If you’ll recall, there was a lot of industry flap when DVRs were becoming available because of the effect that automatic pre-recording of programming would have on TV advertising. Automatic commercial-skipping features introduced the possibility that viewers could watch TV for the rest of their lives and never have to see another ad. ReplayTV, an early and promising competitor to Tivo, was basically destroyed by industry legal action over its automatic commercial-skipping feature. The fact that you have to fast-forward through commercials on your Tivo today, using that clunky pop-goes-the-weasel scan routine, is basically a concession to TV advertisers who would not abide a system that didn’t require you to at least watch the ads on fast-forward.
The Burntwire Brothers remodeled a room to house their collection of D&D paraphernalia as well as a place to hold game sessions. There are stained glass windows, faux dungeon walls, a metal portcullis, dragon statuettes and a rack of swords. As if the place needs more atmosphere, the Dungeon Master can control the room’s lighting, […]
A follow up… RealNetworks settles RealDVD case, drops product, pays $4.5m… RealNetworks says it has settled the litigation over RealDVD, its software for making copies of DVDs on PC hard drives, agreeing to a permanent injunction against sales of the product and paying $4.5 million in legal costs and other fees to six major Hollywood […]
From Thingiverse user gianteye. This is how I’ve seen the world pretty much since 1994 or so. CROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
Kiwi businessman Wayne Eyre dropped a pretty penny on this fantasy home theater build, but the results are impressive.
One of our most searched-on and linked-to subjects is how to make a Gray-Hoverman DTV antenna. In this adorable little video, makers in the making, Naomi and Noah, show you how, proving that it’s so easy, even a child can do it (with a little prompting from dad behind the camera). [Thanks, Paul!] Making a […]
