Got an old Colecovision gathering dust? Don’t give up on it, MAKE contributor Joe Grand (of hacker con badge fame) has detailed instructions on creating your own video game cartridges. In 2001, I wrote a homebrew game for the Atari 2600 called SCSIcide. I created a custom PCB to allow me to make my own […]
Beautiful customization of kidrobot’s mini MUNNY toy by Raul Villanueva. Many more views in his Flickr set. [via toycutter]
Cubelets look like they’re the perfect toy for kids that are old enough to be interested in robotics and electronics but not old enough to understand an H bridge: The cubelets standard kit comes with 20 magnetic blocks that can be snapped together to make an endless variety of robots with no programming and no […]
To teach children about complexity theory, a group from Indiana University created an electronic game called BeeSim using LilyPad Arduinos and XBee radios: During the game children wear a Bee puppet wrist band with embedded electronics to allow for game play. The children have a finite amount of time (45 seconds) to collect and deposit […]
“You mean organized?”
“Organezized. Organezized. It’s a joke. O-R-G-A-N-E-Z-I-Z-E-D…”
“Oh, you mean organezized.”
Love this project by YouTube user wpavalko. Also see its assembly video. [Via The NXT Step]
A Burning Man project from 2007, the giant Settlers of Catan game now appears at various conventions and festivals.
