Next time your alarm goes off in the morning and you switch it off, only to sleep through your important meeting that day, you might want to look into this nifty alarm clock.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.16 at 06:05
This is a video of [Joey Mariano] from animal style demoing his Game Boy pedal board. He added a D15 port to the back of the Game Boy, which is wired to each of the 8 buttons.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.06.15 at 20:48
This is quickly becoming an unintentional "game controller Saturday". We haven't been covering the PSP much lately, so this is a treat.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.06.14 at 15:31
Although this is this maker's first attempt at Roomba hacking, we applaud the fact that he is attempting to make his Roomba less robotic, and more manual.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.13 at 06:44
Here's a great LEGO based Turing machine, Denis writes -
I chose to implement in Lego a slightly different version of the original Turing machine.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.12 at 01:53
Anders S?borg built an amazing scanner that can use either the light sensor that comes with the NXT or a HiTechnic color sensor. Each line of the image is created by moving the sensor over the image at a constant speed while recording the position and corresponding sensor values with a fixed sample rate.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.09 at 22:38
Curiousinventor wrote a nice technical guide to working with ps2 controllers - Despite the large number of guides already out there that describe how to communicate with a play station controller (or guitar hero), most do not cover all the details, or do so sparsely.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.09 at 16:40
Flickr user Balakov recreated some famous photographs in Lego. The reinvisioned images cast a strangely cute tone over some historical moments - Classics in Lego.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.06 at 21:26
Jan Vormann fills cracks in walls with Legos in Italy. I think the visual effect is really stunning. Via Wooster Collective. .
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.06 at 15:10
This climbing wall / human size LED display called the "DigiGripper", has a few tricks up its sleeve. If you hold onto an illuminated dot, the dot retreats into the wall causing you to fall on your butt.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.06.04 at 08:04