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Are you bored with just drinking beer? Are your friends constantly sneaking into your house and stealing your sacred beverages? If so, perhaps you need KegDroid - the Android controlled beer tap created by [Paul Carff]. Looking for a way to add more excitement to drinking his beer, [Paul] spiced up his tap with a little extra technology. He added an Android tablet for touchscreen navigation of … [Read more...]
[Mike] is a huge fan of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and now that he has a daughter it's a great time to pass this epic quest down to the next generation. There's a problem with explaining the plot to her daughter, though: even though the player can name the character after themselves, there's no way to change the gendered pronouns. Yes, it's a problem that could have been solved by a cameo … [Read more...]
A few of [michu]'s friends formed a band named Kalikut Now and needed an awesome stage show. The band made a few 80cm-high letters of their band name, cut a few pieces of acrylic, and wired them up with a few LED modules. The work of connecting these letters to a computer and programming them fell on [michu], and we've got to say he did a pretty good job. You may remember [michu] from his … [Read more...]
The processor in the Raspberry Pi - an ARM11 built by Broadcom - actually has a long and storied history. Much as how the Intel i7 in a top-of-the-line desktop can still run code written for the original IBM PC, the ARM chip in the Raspberry Pi is also based on decades-old technology. The first ARM-based computer was the Acorn Archimedes, a mid-80s computer with 512kB of RAM and no hard drive. … [Read more...]
This set of PVC cranks make you work for your game of Puzzle Bobble, also known as Bust-a-Move. It uses a little cannon centered at the bottom of the screen to pop bubbles based on like colors. There is a cartoon character that cranks as hard as it can to aim that cannon, and this hack brings that effort into the real world. The controllers are made from PVC. A bit of creative use of joints … [Read more...]
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