3D mineral printer

The last few days many people have been talking about the USC’s contour printer. It’s a device that prints concrete outlines with the hopes of eventually printing entire houses. Caterpillar has decided to back the initiative.

It reminded us of a project we came across at Maker Faire. [Leif Ames], [Matthew Bowman], [Marides Athanasiadis], and [Terrell Edwards] built a 3D Read the rest

Toaster computer

[Gordon Johnson] recently completed part 1 of his toaster computer project. He used a standard four slot toaster as the enclosure and cut holes for access to the ports and a wireless antenna. While the specifications of the components used are not mentioned, the build is well documented on his site, complete with lots of pictures and a video. … Read the rest

Videos of the Xbox360 Chatpad on a PSP

[10rdonic0] sent us this video of the Xbox360 Chatpad being used with some Sony PSPs. [Jean] over at ps2dev.org has been developing custom firmware for the Chatpad wich allows it to work with the PSP.  You can see that he’s able to type pretty quickly on the On Screen Keyboard app and maneuver the internet decently.  From what he … Read the rest