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XGameStation Pico Edition 2.0 – Try your hands at the nitty-gritty, low-level world of hardcore game development

XGameStation Pico Edition 2.0 – Try your hands at the nitty-gritty, low-level world of hardcore game development

Try your hands at the nitty-gritty, low-level world of hardcore game development with a new kit we’re carrying in the MAKE store. Twenty years ago, says André LaMothe, game programming was a real art. LaMothe, programmer extraordinaire and probably the best known author in the field of game programming, remembers when 32 kilobytes on machines […]

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The MAKE Open Source MP3 Player @ the Holiday Gadget Guide

The MAKE Open Source MP3 Player @ the Holiday Gadget Guide

MAKE is contributing a few posts to the Holiday Gadget Guide for FM, we thought we’d be different and show kits and things you can build yourself… The first, is our MP3 player – Wouldn’t it be great to actually own your music player? Like really own it? Building it from the ground up and […]

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HOW TO – Make a vintage remote TV-B-Gone case mod

HOW TO – Make a vintage remote TV-B-Gone case mod

Windell writes – “Turn off that television in classic style! Here we show you how to hack a TV-B-Gone into the case of a vintage television remote control, such that the original on/off button instead activates the TV-B-Gone. We also modify the power supply so that it runs off of a regular 9 V battery, […]

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MAKE Volume 08: Toys and Games

MAKE Volume 08: Toys and Games

MAKE 08 is shipping! Here’s what it’s all about, from Mark, our editor-in-chief : “The latest issue of MAKE is about to hit the stands, and this time the theme is toys and games. It includes a secret history of Myst, written by Myst co-creator Robyn Miller, a how-to on resurrecting a neglected pinball machine, […]

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